Thomas F. Puckett

Jason A. Meyer

Jason A. Meyer is a Managing Director of HPC Puckett & Company. He is located in HPC Puckett’s Topeka office and has direct responsibility for the Firm’s optical manufacturing, wholesale optical manufacturing and related optical division. Mr. Meyer joined the Firm in 1998, having worked with the Department of Veteran Affairs. He was initially responsible for representing the Firm’s clients in transportation mergers and acquisitions, but later joined the optical division. In that role, Mr. Meyer has developed an industry network of independent optical laboratories, extensive industry guidelines for valuation procedures, and assisted in setting the standards for mergers and acquisitions for the optical industry in the United States and Mexico.

His responsibilities allow him to work closely with the Firm’s clients in order to understand every aspect of the business. He has direct responsibility over the Firm’s team in the financial analysis, valuations, offering memorandums and marketing of HPC Puckett’s Optical engagements.  During his tenure with HPC Puckett, Mr. Meyer has been involved in dozens of successful transactions, representing hundreds of millions of dollars. He also heads up the Firm’s special projects division. In that capacity he oversees all specialty merger or acquisition activities that are outside of the communications industry.

Mr. Meyer graduated with his Masters of Business Administration Degree with an accounting emphasis at Washburn University.  Mr. Meyer graduated magna cum laude from Washburn University where he received a BBA with majors in finance and economics.

Hunter T. Puckett

Hunter T. Puckett is Vice President and General Counsel of HPC Puckett & Company and is located in the Firm's Rancho Santa Fe, California office.  Mr. Puckett is involved in the transaction process from strategic planning to the preparation and negotiation of closing documents for each of the Firm's sectors.  He works with both existing and new clients to design innovative business models respecting possible divestiture, acquisitions, spin-offs, financing, and other industry related endeavors.  In this regard Mr. Puckett coordinates negotiations between the Firm's clients and third parties as well as respective legal representatives.  In addition, Mr. Puckett assists in the management of the Firm's investments and those of related entities in combination with strategic planning for the Firm and specialty projects.

Mr. Puckett received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of San Diego, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law with combined coursework with the University of Denver Graduate Tax Program.  Mr. Puckett is a member of the American Bar Association and Kansas Bar Association.  He is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, an association involved in middle market corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions, San Diego Chapter.

Melissa L. Kramer 

Melissa Kramer is Vice President of HPC Puckett & Company.  She has been with the firm for 10 years and is located in the Firm’s Topeka, Kansas office, where she works with the Firm’s communications and optical manufacturing clients. Ms. Kramer has direct responsibility for overseeing the gathering and processing of financial, statistical and operational due diligence information from HPC Puckett’s clients.

Her department formats the information for presentation in offering documents, closing documents and purchaser due diligence requests. These procedures relieved the Firm’s clients of significant effort and outside professional fees associated with the process and further expedites the transactions.

Ms. Kramer joined HPC Puckett & Company in 2001.  Prior to joining HPC Puckett she was a Grant Facilitator and Information Management Specialist for a federal grant with the Northeast Kansas Education Service Center.

Ms. Kramer graduated from Kansas State University with a BA in Journalism.