Revenue Cycle Management
Companies that handle billing, coding, claims, and collections for doctors, clinics, and hospitals.
We buy businesses and keep them.
VCC buys profitable companies in medical billing, telecommunications, manufacturing software, and aquaculture — businesses that took years to build, that run on real customer relationships, and that deserve an owner who plans to stay.
Shabab Ali
Advisor, Technology & Security
Shabab began in systems administration at The College of New Jersey in 2016, maintaining Linux systems and VMware patching across the academic network and supporting hardware testing. He joined New York Presbyterian Hospital the following year and has been there since.
As a Unix/Linux System Administrator III he is responsible for more than a hundred Unix and Linux servers across the hospital’s departments. He automates deployment with Terraform and Ansible, integrates Azure and Rubrik for cloud and data recovery, and runs Splunk, CyberArk and BigFix for monitoring, endpoint management and privileged access.
Eight years in, he works to a standard of 99.9 percent uptime on systems clinicians depend on to treat patients — the same infrastructure discipline that revenue cycle management businesses are built on, where a day of downtime is a day of claims not filed. He holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Thomas Edison State University, with a concentration in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, and a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science.
Most buyers want out in five years.
We have no exit date.
What we buy
Businesses other people depend on.
These are unglamorous companies that keep doctors paid, networks running, factories supplied, and shelves stocked. That is exactly why we like them.
Telecommunications
Companies that build, run, and service the networks and connectivity that other businesses rely on.
Manufacturing Software
The systems that raw material producers use to plan production, track inventory, and keep the plant running.
Aquaculture
Land-based fish farms raising stock in managed tank systems rather than open water.
What fits
Three aren't
Six things tell you whether we should talk.
If your business matches most of what follows, we'd like to hear from you. If it doesn't, we'll say so quickly rather than waste your time.
Three are numbers$1M–$10M
In revenue
$250K–$2.5M
In profit
5+ years
In business
- Where you are
- Headquartered in the United States, serving U.S. customers. Offshore delivery teams are fine.
- What shape you're in
- Profitable and running. We're not the right buyer for companies still in their infancy, companies deep in the red, or companies in the middle of a turnaround.
- What you want next
- To retire, to step back, or to keep going with a partner and capital behind you. Usually we buy the whole company. Sometimes we buy most of it and leave you a meaningful share.
How it works
Five steps. No surprises.
01
You email us
One email outlining your business, its ballpark financials, and your goals.
02
We talk
We sign an NDA and our teams meet. The people on that first call are the people who stay with it through to closing.
03
We look at the numbers
We review your financials, come back with questions, and set out the approach we would take.
04
We make an offer
A written proposal with price and terms in plain language. Your advisors will still review it; you just won't need them to translate it.
05
We close
A step-by-step plan from handshake through to completion, so you always know what comes next.
What you can expect
How we work with owners.
01
A straight answer, fast
If you're not a fit, you will hear it from us within two business days.
02
We keep the name
The business you built keeps its name and its identity.
03
We keep the people
We buy on the strength of the team. Cutting it would remove the reason we bought.
04
It stays private
Diligence runs confidentially on both sides. Nothing reaches your staff, customers, or lenders except what you disclose.
Who we are
Advisory team
The people behind VCC.
Management team
Shahid Mir
Chief Executive Officer
Shakeel Akhter
Chief Operating Officer
Lorie Bennett
Partner, Transactions
Abe Shekel
Partner, Growth
Jeff Chang
Advisor, Governance & Compliance
Shabab Ali
Advisor, Technology & Security
Shahid Mir
Chief Executive Officer
Shahid has spent forty-three years in information technology as an entrepreneur, systems architect, and advisor. He was a founding member of Pakistan’s National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, now one of the largest computer science universities in South Asia and the Middle East, enrolling 7,000+ students, and served on its Academic Council as a Board of Governors nominee for more than a decade.
As founding CEO of the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), he helped build the country’s technology export industry from the ground up, leading industry delegations to COMDEX in Las Vegas and CeBIT in Hannover through the mid-1990s. He has advised at head-of-government level, sat on an economic reforms committee and a national IT agenda board, and consulted to USAID, the Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank on programs applying technology to healthcare, education, and agriculture.
As Chief Systems Architect he has run technology and telecommunications programs across industrial sectors, managing project portfolios worth fifty million dollars, and has led teams whose cloud-based work won competition awards. He advises large industrial and banking groups on technology strategy and execution, and has been lead trainer on more than two hundred professional development programs. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Systems Science, with scholarships and high distinctions in both.
Shakeel Akhter
Chief Operating Officer
Shakeel holds a Master of Science in computer science and began his career in 1990 building systems for Delta Shipping — imports and exports management, container handling, and the financial accounting that tied them together. He spent two years teaching computer science at technical institutes and learned the how-to craft of IT as the industry’s shift began.
In 1991 he joined Crescent Investment Bank as Manager of Information Technology and MIS, where he spent seven years building the systems a bank runs on — customer information, loan management, cash management, securities, capital markets, payroll, and financial accounting — across its head office and branch network, then led the in-house conversion of all of them onto a new database platform. He went on to serve as Vice President of Systems at Kuwait Investment Company, and afterwards spent two years as a senior technical consultant, evaluating loan management and customer information systems and supporting major telecommunications carriers.
From 2003 he served as Group Chief Information Officer of the Crescent Group of Companies, holding concurrent posts as Senior Vice President and Head of Information Technology at its commercial bank, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer at its telecommunications business, and Chief Information Officer at its steel operation, where he guided the group’s ERP selection and implementation. He then spent more than eight years as General Manager and Group Chief Information Officer of the Ghulam Faruque Group. His domain experience spans banking, telecommunications, trading, shipping, and manufacturing — sugar, cement, packaging, and ethanol. He holds the PMP and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certifications, with formal training in SAP Financials and Oracle Applications.
Lorie Bennett
Partner, Transactions
A graduate of Texas Woman's University and the University of North Texas, Lorie began her career outside financial services — selling dental science products at PerioSciences, where she ranked among the firm's top performers and lifted territory revenue by more than thirty percent in a single quarter. It was a consultative sale to skeptical professionals, and it set the pattern for everything that followed.
She moved into finance in 2013, first as a financial advisor at Edward Jones, then as a wealth advisor at United Capital, where she advised Fortune 500 retirees on retirement income and planning strategy. In late 2016 she joined Generational Equity as Operations Manager and spent six years inside M&A — establishing and administering the trust structures that hold sale proceeds, and coordinating advisors, bankers, and legal counsel across the full life of a transaction.
Two years at Farther followed, where she served as primary relationship manager for advisors and high-net-worth clients, before she joined Wealth Advisors Trust Company in 2025 as a Fiduciary Strategist, advising wealth advisors, estate attorneys, and CPAs on trust structures and fiduciary risk. She holds the Series 7 and Series 63, and completed the Cannon School's Essentials of Trusts program at Wealth Advisors Trust.
Jeff Chang
Advisor, Governance & Compliance
A graduate of Baruch College in 1981, Jeff worked his way through school — first in import/export at J.E. Maiyme, then as a clerk with the U.S. Post Office. Before turning to finance, he served as a New York City police officer from 1982 to 1984, an experience that shaped the discipline and judgment he would later bring to trading floors and compliance work.
After a bridge year at Wang Laboratories in Boston, Jeff broke onto the Street in 1985 at A.G. Becker Paribas, trading on the equities desk before being posted to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He went on to trade commodities at Collins Commodities on the New York Mercantile Exchange, then spent eleven years at Bear Stearns — first on the retail desk, then in trade processing, running clearing operations for small broker-dealers.
In 1997, Jeff moved to the supervisory side of the business as Head of Compliance at HGK Asset Management, a post he held for eight years. Few compliance officers can say they have stood where the rules are tested — on the exchange floor, at the trading desk, and in the clearing back office. Jeff has stood in all three.
Abe Shekel
Partner, Growth
Abe began his career in the heart of Wall Street at Phoenix Financial Services, working on private equity in SEC-registered funds. He went on to become a key builder at Farther, the fastest-growing advisory firm in the country, taking the RIA from seed through Series C. There he introduced a SaaS-based revenue stream, spinning data-driven prospecting out of Farther’s own technology and selling it to boutique RIAs across the country.
He developed key accounts for the digital recordkeeper 401GO, expanding across Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Cambridge Investment Research, Ameriprise, Osaic, LPL Financial, and Goldman Sachs among others, and built fund models specific to retirement investments. As a Partner at Advintro, he manages a curated portfolio of more than thirty companies in wealth, asset management, banking, and insurance. He positions fintech firms across financial planning, data analytics and reporting, organic growth, and estate management, and runs their go-to-market work — market exposure, benchmarking, sponsorships, and thought leadership.
His work has centered on building growth engines for financial firms — advisor books, enterprise wealth platform sales, and new revenue channels — including an intelligence platform built specifically for wealth managers, a playbook he is repeating in VCC’s RCM vertical. He is a regular at the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, taking part in listings and bell ceremonies. He took bachelor’s degrees in General Management from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht and in Business Administration from the Goodman School of Business at Brock University. He holds the Series 7 and Series 63. He is also an Accredited Investment Fiduciary, a designation built around the highest standard of care.
Contact
Tell us about your business.
Whether you want to sell this year or are just thinking ahead, we're glad to talk. Email us directly and you'll hear back within two business days.
info@vintagecapitalcorp.com