The team behind Covenant Strategic Partner
Covenant Strategic Partner works with founders and operators, primarily in healthcare, who've built something real but are still standing in the middle of it. Here's who's behind the firm.
From burnout to enterprise value: proven execution in healthcare growth
Dr. Burton operates at the intersection of operational discipline and scalable healthcare growth, where most practices either stall or break under pressure. He has built, scaled, and exited businesses across medical practices, behavioral health, and service-based care, and has led teams responsible for generating $25M–$30M in annual revenue.
His track record is transforming operationally constrained healthcare businesses into high-performing, acquisition-ready assets. During the height of COVID, he repositioned a rehabilitation facility and tripled patient volume while building an in-house workforce model that cut reliance on costly temporary staffing. In another facility engagement, his strategies drove a 43% increase in admissions, a 20% year-over-year rise in average daily census, and an increase in net Medicare revenue exceeding $1,600 per patient, with immediate and measurable EBITDA impact.
His work spans the full lifecycle, from launching startup medical practices to successful exits, to scaling a 25-year single-market provider into a national platform that attracted private equity acquisition. He has also rebuilt distressed, burnout-driven founders' businesses, taking a healthcare sales organization from $300,000 in annual revenue to $300,000 in a single quarter, and guided a massage therapy practice from a single-provider startup to a multi-employee operation and a successful exit.
Dr. Burton is also the author of two books on physician burnout, giving him a unique lens into the human constraints that limit business performance in healthcare. His focus is one outcome: healthcare businesses that no longer depend on the owner, operate with institutional discipline, and command premium valuations.
Daniel Bruneau, Ph.D.
Scientific rigor and investor discipline, applied to healthcare growth
Daniel Bruneau, Ph.D., cofounder of Covenant Strategic Partner, works at the intersection of behavioral science, commercial strategy, and venture development, a rare combination in healthcare advisory. He has founded and cofounded health tech ventures spanning neuroscience, predictive AI, and post-acute recovery, and led the commercial turnaround of a multi-million dollar healthcare venture, driving $3M in new revenue within 18 months.
Over more than fifteen years across healthcare and enterprise sectors, he has held senior leadership and advisory roles at multiple Fortune 100 companies, managed $18M+ operational budgets, shared leadership responsibility for $8.5B+ in annual digital revenue, and directed cross-functional organizations of 145+ people.
That experience has taught him how sophisticated buyers underwrite value, and how human behavior drives the retention, adoption, and predictability that separate premium valuations from average ones. He brings scientific rigor and investor discipline to every engagement, building businesses that are easier to run, easier to lead, and materially easier to buy.
Hannah Mirwald
The operating systems that let founder-led businesses run without the founder
Hannah leads operations at Covenant Strategic Partner, designing the systems that connect lead generation, sales, onboarding, delivery and renewals into one reliable client lifecycle. She brings more than a decade of experience building the commercial and operational infrastructure behind subscription and recurring-revenue businesses, including Director and COO-level roles.
Her work has supported $2M+ in revenue growth, recovered $100K+ in lost revenue, delivered $100K+ in annual savings within the first four weeks of working with one business, and lifted upsell conversions by 40% without adding delivery cost. She pairs that operational depth with hands-on AI and automation, and her focus is simple: businesses that no longer depend on the owner's memory, heroics or inbox.