Our Leadership Team

Adam Dyer has a wealth of experience in the financial industry, starting his career as a management consultant before transitioning to investment banking. He has a strong foundation in providing analytical and strategic support to various clients within the firm.

Before joining Now Capital Partners, Adam worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Prager & Company, a boutique bank known for its financial services to top higher education institutions in the US and Canada, social service and cultural institutions, healthcare and education technology firms, and state and local government agencies. During his time at Prager & Company (now Hilltop Securities), Adam was involved in over $2.5 billion worth of debt capital markets and private placement transactions and provided M&A transaction support to various executive teams. Adam is a registered investment banking professional and holds the Series 79 and Series 63 licenses. 

Andrew Melendrez, a New Mexico native, was raised in Alamogordo where he developed a strong foundation in team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and track. He graduated from Alamogordo High School with honors and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden. At CSM, he honed his leadership skills through participation in club rugby and the Beta Phi Chapter of Beta Theta Pi where he held several key positions. He also gained practical experience in the field of engineering through his work as an intern with Coors Brewing Company, where he was sponsored by the non-profit organization “InRoads.”

After graduating, Andrew discovered his love for the medical field through a job at Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences. This sparked an entrepreneurial spirit in him, and in 2005 he co-founded Quality Sleep Solutions, a sleep medicine consulting and healthcare clinic. The company expanded rapidly over the next 14 years through M&A to 23 locations across 4 states and was eventually sold to a physician acquirer in 2019.

Andrew continued to pursue his passion for M&A and became a certified M&A professional in 2021. Today, he serves as a Director for NOW Capital Partners, bringing a wealth of operational experience and a deep understanding of the healthcare industry to the team.

In his free time, Andrew enjoys staying active through fitness and outdoor activities, like CrossFit, hunting, mountain biking, and snowboarding. He also spends time working in his garage and volunteering at the Rio Rancho Regional Chamber of Commerce. Andrew is married and enjoys networking and giving back to his community.

Doug Lunn serves as a Managing Director at Now Capital Partners. He has a background in Energy, Advanced Materials, Semiconductor, and industry agnostic high technology A/B Stage Venture Capital investing. He received his undergraduate degree in geology with a focus on advanced materials from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his MBA from SMU with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship.  Doug has spent most of his career helping perform due diligence for venture investments and managing a venture portfolio for Catalina Ventures, helping operate startups, support the operations of an accelerator, making angel investments, and consulting on M&A projects including a large acquisition in the Semiconductor industry for Advanced Energy Industries. Doug has made investments in a number of industries including Biotech, Green Tech, Energy Storage, Gaming, Cloud Services, and Logistics. Doug excels at due diligence, general strategy consulting, negotiations, and financial modeling.

John Curtin is one of the founding members of Now Capital Partners. John offers diverse accounting and financial experience, with a proven track record in management, leadership, and a powerful growth mindset. He has consulted with over 250 companies in M&A transactions, raising startup capital, implementing ERP systems, managing banking relationships, and providing business-critical solutions. He graduated from Biola University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Business Law.

As a serial entrepreneur, John has founded multiple companies including the Ghost Tribe Entertainment and Lazarus Technologies companies responsible for developing new industry-standard facial animation. Before founding Now Capital Partners, John was responsible for managing and allocating over $2B in property investment funds for a property developer. John describes himself as a capital allocator with a talent for simplifying the complexities of finance. John still holds interests in contract manufacturing companies across the globe and in investment real estate.

Early in 2020 John became Partner for NOW CFO Los Angeles and grew the market over 250% year-over-year for the last two years and counting.  As a partner at NOW CFO and CEO at Now Capital Partners, John brings the perspective of the real-world entrepreneur and founder into all of the deals at Now Capital Partners.