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 is 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 rec vcfgeived a BBA with majors in finance and economics.  

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.  He is responsible for closing proceedings for transactions as well as strategic corporate development.  In addition, Mr. Puckett assists in the management of the Firm's investments and those of related entities.

Mr. Puckett received a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of San Diego in 2004 and  Juris Doctorate for the University of Denver School of Law in 2007.

Jim Faircloth recently rejoined HPC Puckett & Company as a Director, communications division. He is based in HPC Puckett’s Georgia offices and has primary responsibility for the company’s cable television transactions and industry affairs. An industry veteran with four decades of systems operation, ownership and transactional experience, Mr. Faircloth’s knowledge of the industry and its players is unparalleled.

Mr. Faircloth first joined HPC in December, 1986, as Senior Vice President after serving seventeen years in a senior management role with Storer Communications, including six years as Vice President & General Manager of the 500,000 subscriber Western Division. He served as President of HPC from 1988–1990

In 1991, Mr. Faircloth was appointed Chief Operating Officer for the United States and Asia for Millisat, Inc., an international cellular provider and cable systems MSO. He supervised acquisitions and divestitures for Millisat and parent Millicom, S.A., in Asia, Spain and the U.K. and participated in the company’s world wide financing initiatives.  In 1998, Mr. Faircloth co-founded USA Media Group, a Nevada based MSO serving more than 60,000 subscribers and 75,000 RGU’s which he operated until it’s sale.

 A 1989 Cable Pioneers inductee, Mr. Faircloth was elected to the Pioneers managing Board in 1996. He was recently reelected for a fifth term and now serves as Chairman of the Board. He was a founding Board member of CTAM, a two term President of the Florida Cable Association and has served as a director-at-large on numerous state and regional trade association Boards. In 1999, he was inducted into the Arizona Cable Television Hall of Fame and in 2001 was elected to the National Cable Television Cooperative’s managing Board where he served as Chairman of the Operations Committee.   

Michael R. Jeffrey recently joined HPC Puckett & Company as Director, communications division. He is located in HPC Puckett’s new Georgia office with responsibility for, both broadband merger and acquisition activity, as well as new business development in convergent industries.  Mr. Jeffrey brings 30 years business experience to the Firm through a wide variety projects, both in the M & A arena and through strategic and operational consulting assignments in both the United States and Europe.

 Mr. Jeffrey’s background includes management roles at Continental Bank in commercial lending, HBO in sales and marketing, and McCaw Communications in corporate finance and limited partnership syndication.  He was a co-founder of Robinson/Jeffrey Associates, Inc., also involved in cable television investment banking including sale representation, finance, strategic consulting, due diligence work and expert witness testimony. More recently, Mr. Jeffrey initiated a business development role for UPC in Amsterdam, NL, for their Digital Media Centre offering broadcast and postproduction facilities and worldwide digital distribution. 

 Mr. Jeffrey is a Cable Television Pioneer and has contributed to the industry through various industry association committee positions.  He has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and post- graduate work in finance and accounting.

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.