BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2026--
Outcome Capital, LLC, a highly specialized life sciences and healthcare advisory and investment banking firm, today announced that Jaison Ellis has joined the firm as a Managing Director, based in Charlotte, NC. The firm continues to expand its life sciences and healthcare practices through its unique, market-aligned, strategy-driven platform, delivering mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic advisory services.
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“I’m delighted to join such a distinguished and high-quality team of professionals and excited to further Outcome’s vital work of helping clients achieve their strategic goals amidst a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape with vast opportunities for value creation,” said Jaison Ellis.
Mr. Ellis is a seasoned investment banking professional with deep experience in investment banking and capital markets. He has originated and executed over $150 billion in M&A and capital raising transactions across biopharmaceuticals, pharma services, lab services, and other healthcare subsectors. He is widely regarded as a trusted and collaborative advisor to management teams, boards, and investors, providing guidance on a broad range of strategic transactions, including sales, divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, and recapitalizations.
Dr. Oded Ben-Joseph, Managing Partner at Outcome Capital, commented, “We continue to expand our specialized, strategy-led execution model, enabling us to deliver premium outcomes for our clients as they navigate critical inflection points. Central to this effort is our unwavering focus on attracting and retaining top talent that consistently delivers superior value to our clients. Jaison’s diverse skill set and deep transaction experience make him an outstanding addition to our platform and will support our continued growth while reinforcing our core value proposition of combining sector expertise with transaction excellence.
Prior to joining Outcome, Mr. Ellis served as a Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Wells Fargo, where he worked since 2013. He previously held roles in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at BMO Capital Markets, as well as in the Alternative Investments and Financial Sponsors groups at Credit Suisse in New York.
Mr. Ellis earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Morehouse College, graduating summa cum laude.
About Outcome Capital
Outcome Capital is a highly specialized life sciences and healthcare advisory and investment banking firm providing innovative companies with a value-added, market-aligned approach to mergers and acquisitions, partnering, and corporate finance. The firm leverages its proven “strategy-led execution” approach to value enhancement, assisting management teams and boards in navigating complex financial and corporate markets to achieve optimal outcomes. Outcome’s multidisciplinary team—comprised of former CEOs, business development executives, venture capitalists, PhD- and MD-level scientists and clinicians, and experienced commercialization experts—brings deep scientific, operational, strategic, and transactional expertise across the healthcare value chain to help propel innovation from bench to bedside.
Jaison Ellis, Managing Director, Outcome Capital
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2026--
Speaking to industry leaders at a recent Index AR Solutions conference, Anthony W. Gagliardo, Ed.D. delivered a sobering message: the greatest threat to America’s energy future is not technology – it is workforce readiness.
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Drawing on decades of executive leadership in aerospace, aviation, nuclear energy and enterprise workforce transformation, Gagliardo framed the industry’s moment as a true crossroads where aging infrastructure, exponential technological change and a looming workforce crisis converge. Gagliardo formerly served as Vice President of Nuclear, Technical & Enterprise Learning at Xcel Energy and has held senior leadership roles at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other major national institutions, where he has led transformative workforce modernization initiatives.
“Historic trends indicate that many of today’s companies will not survive today’s rate of exponential change, and likely won’t be in business in 15 to 20 years,” Gagliardo said. “It’s not a failure to innovate. It’s an inability to support and adapt to change.”
Infrastructure at a Crossroads
Gagliardo described an energy system under mounting strain. Much of the nation’s transmission infrastructure dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, even as electricity demand is now rising for the first time in decades. Utilities are being asked to expand capacity, modernize grids and maintain near-perfect reliability simultaneously. Electricity demand growth is accelerating, fueled in part by energy-intensive data centers, electrification and industrial reshoring.
“This is not optional,” Gagliardo said as he underscored the need for maintaining a well-trained, high performing workforce. “It must be taught, practiced and renewed – one leader, one crew and one shift at a time.”
The Talent Gap: A Strategic Risk
According to Brookings, the U.S. will need to hire 32 million new workers just in infrastructure and other construction-related occupations over the next decade. At the same time, global surveys show the vast majority of companies across multiple industries struggling to find skilled talent.
Within utilities, nearly six in ten employees have less than 10 years of experience, creating a compressed experience curve and widening knowledge proficiency gaps that must be addressed.
“Rather than a cyclical hiring issue, this is a long-term structural talent shortage,” said Gagliardo.
Gagliardo noted that this challenge mirrors workforce transitions he has helped lead in aviation and aerospace, including his work developing NASA JPL’s Future Workforce Destination 2025 Roadmap and transforming technical training systems for the FAA’s geographically dispersed workforce.
A New Model for Learning
Instead of relying solely on traditional classroom instruction or institutional memory, Gagliardo outlined a modern approach to workforce development built on adaptive curriculum pathways, immersive simulation, proficiency verification and learning integrated directly into workflow.
He challenged leaders to rethink how people gain experience, arguing that immersive, multimodal tools can accelerate proficiency, reduce safety risks and improve operational outcomes.
“The talent shortages we are facing require significant investment in human resources,” Gagliardo explained. “The multi-modal learning tools being developed and deployed by companies like Index AR Solutions are going to be key to how we solve these acute workforce challenges.”
Gagliardo suggested the companies that make the right investments get to a place where they develop a capability, a workforce and a proficiency, and then have the ability to replicate it – ultimately reducing unit cost.
Turning Risk into Opportunity
Another benefit of investing in workforce development offerings from Index AR Solutions is that utility executives are not continually competing for limited operations and maintenance (O&M) funding. Instead, they can rely on more stable capital allocations, enabling them to strategically scale their workforce and invest in critical infrastructure. This approach benefits energy customers by enabling greater performance and service of their rate-based infrastructure investment. Utilities also have significant opportunities to identify and leverage new funding streams that enhance operational performance, workforce safety and system reliability
Gagliardo encouraged organizations to evaluate whether their employee knowledge and proficiency strategies align with capital growth demands, resilience planning and rapidly changing technologies.
“We are approaching a huge opportunity,” Gagliardo said. “And it’s through the use of cognitive science and experiential learning techniques being brought to life by companies like Index AR Solutions that companies will reimagine the way they train and skill.”
To learn more about how Index AR solutions can help create a training curriculum roadmap, visit indexarsolutions.com.
About Index AR Solutions
Index AR Solutions partners with utilities, energy providers and enterprise organizations to design and deliver immersive, multimodal workforce development solutions that accelerate proficiency, improve safety and protect operational continuity in an era of exponential change. For more information, visit indexarsolutions.com.
Dr. Anthony W. Gagliardo, Ed.D. addresses industry leaders at an Index AR Solutions conference, highlighting the critical workforce development challenges shaping the future of the energy industry.
