Compliance Due Diligence: A Cost or a Value Driver? (with Amanda Doran)

Amanda Doran, Chief Compliance Officer, Healthcare Portfolio Operations at Waud Capital Partners, joins Ross Ronan on The Compliance Advantage to talk about compliance in healthcare mergers and acquisitions and about building the leaders who run it. Amanda has spent more than 20 years in healthcare compliance across emergency medicine, post-acute care, and ambulatory surgery, and now mentors compliance officers across a private equity portfolio. She makes the case for growing compliance officers into compliance executives who understand the business, and she offers direct advice to CEOs and boards on hiring the right leader, where personality, judgment, and the ability to build trust matter as much as the resume. A compliance officer who says no to everything loses credibility, so the goal is a leader who can have frank conversations and still move the business forward. On the deal side, Amanda explains what she looks for when vetting an acquisition target, and why a compliance-minded leader can matter more than a complete set of policies. When a company prepares to sell, the picture flips. A functioning program with recurring audits, remediated findings, and documented improvement lowers the perceived risk for a buyer, and that shows up in the purchase price and the escrow. Amanda and Ross also dig into a shift the field has been working toward for years: compliance as a strategic partner rather than a police function. The throughline is practical. Compliance built early and led well becomes an advantage a company carries into its next deal. In this episode: What Amanda looks for when vetting an acquisition target, and why leadership can outweigh a complete policy set How a strong compliance program affects purchase price and escrow on the sell side Why recurring audits and documented improvement lower a buyer's perceived risk The shift from compliance as a police function to compliance as a strategic partner How to mentor compliance officers into compliance executives who understand the business How a CEO or board should approach hiring the right compliance leader Amanda Doran is the Chief Compliance Officer, Healthcare Portfolio Operations at Waud Capital Partners. She has spent more than 20 years in healthcare compliance, including Chief Compliance Officer roles at US Acute Care Solutions and Global Medical Response, and 15 years in compliance across Envision Healthcare's sectors. In this episode she talks with Ross about compliance due diligence, the sell-side value of a strong program, and how she mentors compliance officers across a private equity portfolio.   / amanda-yoh-doran