Primary Job Title Founder and Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Traction Advising M&A
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Lowell Ricklefs is the Founder and Managing Partner at Traction Advising M&A/Alliance of Angels as an Education Committee Chairman. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lowell is the business driver at FlexMinder. He joined co-founders Deepak Kumar (CTO) and Will Miceli in 2012 to build a healthcare IT company focused on
building tools that reduce the complexity and cost of healthcare for consumers, employers and carriers. Prior to FlexMinder I was at Toluna (COO) for 4 years leading global growth strategy and acquisitions to drive revenue from $15M to $120M with a $260M exit (PE firm April 2011) and GMI (CRO/EVP) accelerating sales/professional services in 36 months from $1M to $60M with a $100M strategic exit (sold to WPP). Early stage success has been built upon F500 discipline at Rockwell as Global VP Channels for Rockwell Automation ($3B) and Business Manager Rockwell Software ($100M)
