
Trey Crabb
Executive Director, M&A
Morgan Stanley, LLC
Trey Crabb joined Morgan Stanley in 2016, where he founded the firm’s not-for-profit healthcare and middle market for-profit healthcare mergers and acquisitions function. He brings over 25 years of healthcare experience guiding not-for-profit and for-profit healthcare organizations in strategic advisory transactions and debt and equity capital raises. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Crabb founded and ran the not-for-profit healthcare mergers and acquisitions effort at Ziegler. He also worked with Merrill Lynch in its New York and London offices primarily handling not-for-profit mergers, acquisitions and exclusive sales transactions. He began his career at Bank of America in Charlotte, where he was a founding member of the firm’s healthcare corporate finance and investment banking group.
Mr. Crabb is a frequent lecturer at universities across the U.S., including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was appointed to the Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA adjunct faculty in 2012 and is a professor of the practice. Mr. Crabb is a member of ACHE and the Health Policy Issues Group. He has served on numerous boards, including an appointment to the board of directors at Carolina Research Ventures LLC in 2015, where he was elected vice chairman in 2017. Mr. Crabb earned two masters’ degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including a Master of Healthcare Administration degree from the Gillings School and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kenan-Flagler Business School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in corporate finance and investment management at the University of Alabama.
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