Thomas F. Puckett

Thomas F. Puckett is a Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer and is located in the Rancho Santa Fe, California office of HPC Puckett & Company. He is responsible for the strategic development and overall management of the Firm’s business.  Mr. Puckett is involved in every aspect of the Firm’s representation of clients, which includes mergers & acquisitions, debt capital formation and financial advisory engagements.

Mr. Puckett formed HPC Puckett & Company in September, 1983. Prior to starting the Firm, Mr. Puckett headed his own law practice in Topeka, Kansas from 1977 to 1983, specializing in mergers and acquisitions coupled with an emphasis in specialized taxation. During that time Mr. Puckett completed dozens of transactions including numerous specialty engagements in the areas of cable television and optical manufacturing. From 1977 to 1983, as an attorney, Mr. Puckett completed numerous roll up and development financings with specialized lending institutions for the cable television rural classic market.

In 1987 Mr. Puckett relocated to San Diego and there opened the Firm’s corporate office that same year. That transition expanded the Firm’s activities to a national presence and has resulted in HPC Puckett & Company being one of the Nations three largest privately held communications investment banks and the exclusive optical manufacturing investment bank.

In addition to his financial expertise, Mr. Puckett is recognized by both the cable television and optical manufacturing industries as and industry leader. Mr. Puckett is a Cable Television Pioneer, and continues an active role in The Cable Center. In addition, Mr. Puckett founded the Optical Pioneers organization and continues to be active in the Optical Laboratories Association as a member of the Advisory Board, Chairman of the Optical Pioneers committee and a frequent speaker and panelist at the OLA annual meetings.

Mr. Puckett received a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, with emphasis in accounting from Washburn  University in 1974, and a Juris Doctorate from Washburn University School of Law in 1977.

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

Mr. Puckett received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of San Diego and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm School 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 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 helps to relieve 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.