Craig T. Standen is a senior vice president at Ziegler Capital Markets, where he provides non-profit and for-profit healthcare clients with access to public and private debt capital, advisory services on mergers, acquisition and other strategic transactions. Mr. Standen has 12 years of healthcare and corporate finance experience and has participated on a broad range of capital markets, strategic and financial advisory transactions for hospitals, multi-state health systems, and other healthcare-related entities across the country spanning the size and credit spectrums. Mr. Standen also has broad experience in the implementation of derivative and risk management solutions and in-depth knowledge of financing-related tax and arbitrage issues.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Mr. Standen was an associate in the healthcare and corporate finance groups at NatCity Investments. Mr. Standen also worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Schering-Plough Corporation and spent five years as an active duty surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Standen received hi sMBA with a concentration in finance from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and his bachelor of arts in economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.