David Adams is Vice President, Integrations and Divestitures for Medtronic.  Dave’s role focuses on creating the road map for making Medtronic’s integration efforts world class.  In addition he participates with the cross functional teams involved in integrating new businesses into Medtronic.  David has over 25 years of experience in tax, financial planning, and business development. He graduated with a B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois (1980) and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law (1984)

David’s previous roles with Medtronic included:

• Vice President, Cardiovascular Business Development
• Senior Director, Corporate Development – For Neurological, Gastroenterology, Urology and Diabetes businesses.
• Director, Integration for Minimed (Diabetes) for the initial integration David managed the world wide annual budget process and other corporate financial activities.
• Director, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis
• Director, Tax Planning Medtronic

 

Mohamad Ali is currently Senior Vice President at Corporate Development & Strategy at Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications.  He is responsible for Avaya's mergers & acquisitions, major partnerships, corporate strategy, research labs and emerging products.

Before joining Avaya, Mohamad was Vice President of Business Development & Strategy for IBM’s Information Management division where he oversaw division strategy, partner relationships and the selection, acquisition and integration of target companies.  His acquisitions included Cognos Incorporated ($5.0B), FileNet Corporation ($1.6B) and Ascential Software ($1.1B).  As IBM’s senior state executive he was responsible for IBM’s 5,000 employees in Massachusetts.

Mohamad has served as Vice President and general manager for IBM’s Information Applications software business, IBM’s EDA software business, IBM’s E&TS hardware systems business and IBM’s GSM semiconductor business.  He has also held positions in sales, marketing, engineering and finance.

Before joining IBM, Mohamad was an executive at software startup Neural Applications Corporation and an engineer at Adobe Systems.  He holds BS/BA and MSEE degrees from Stanford University.

Mohamad serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and Ember Corporation, and on the leadership council of Oxfam America.  He was named to Boston Business Journal’s 2008 “40 Under 40” list.  Mohamad enjoys running, skiing and making weekend breakfasts.

 

Karen Beadie joined Cargill in January 2005 as Corporate Development Manager in the Strategy and Business Development group.  She was promoted to Assistant Vice President of Strategy and Business Development in December 2006, and is responsible for assisting Cargill’s Business Units, Platforms and the Corporate Center with their M&A, joint venture and alliances needs.

At Cargill, she has worked on numerous cross-border M&A transactions, including the purchase of Degussa’s worldwide Food Ingredients business and the sale of Cargill’s Seara business.

Prior to joining Cargill, Ms. Beadie spent most of her career in M&A roles at Honeywell, Inc., most recently as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions.  Ms. Beadie also spent time with Retek Inc. and Imation Corp. in a variety of corporate/business development and M&A roles and was an independent consultant providing strategic and mergers and acquisitions consulting services.

Ms. Beadie graduated from Bethel College in Newton, Kansas in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in History. In 1980 she received her J.D. from University of Nebraska.

Ms. Beadie is originally from Beatrice, Nebraska and currently lives in Edina, Minnesota.

 

Michael Cody joined Raytheon Company as Vice President of Corporate Development in June of 2009. He is responsible for and will oversee all corporate development and M&A activity for the Company.

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.

Michael joins Raytheon from Meadowood Capital (Private Equity) where he has been a Partner since 2007. Prior to joining Meadowood Capital, Michael served as Vice President of Corporate Development for EMC and was responsible for leading a team of 12 engineering, investment and operational professionals in effecting a broad range of transactions including: acquisitions, divestitures/spin-offs, minority investments and strategic alliances/joint ventures. During that time, EMC executed over 90 transactions aggregating in excess of $12 billion. Prior to joining EMC, Michael was the Director of Corporate Development at United Technologies, Managing Director in Price Waterhouse's corporate finance division and an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody & Company.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Columbia University.

 

Jim has served as Executive Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions of Consolidated Graphics for the past six years. During Jim’s tenure with the company, Consolidated Graphics has grown over 50% through acquisition. In recognition of his contributions to the printing industry, Mr. Cohen was inducted into the National Association of Printing Leadership’s Soderstrom Society, the printing industry’s honorary society that recognizes outstanding contributions of service and leadership in printing.  

Prior to joining Consolidated Graphics, Jim worked in investment banking, law and private equity. He started his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York and later practiced law with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York and London (focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private equity funds) and also with Baker Botts in Houston. Jim’s business side experience also includes serving as a Managing Director and member of the investment committee of a private equity fund focused on industry consolidations. 

Jim is an honors graduate of Princeton University and received his JD degree from NYU School of Law. Outside of work, Mr. Cohen is Chair of the Alumni Schools Committee for Princeton University (Houston Region), a board member of the Electronic Document Scholarship Fund and a member of the board of the Episcopal High School Dads Club. 

 

Bob Coury is the National Managing Director of Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF). In this role, he leads the investment banking practice serving both public and private companies. DCF specializes in middle market transactions in various industries.  These transactions include corporate sale mandates, corporate carve outs and divestitures, buy-side transactions, capital raising, fairness opinions, and general business advisory.

Since 1986, Bob has been performing corporate finance and investment banking services including, mergers & acquisitions, business valuation, bond trading/portfolio management and general business advisory services. He utilizes DCF’s industry specialists combined with the Deloitte and Touche LLP’s Global Industry team to bring a targeted global solution to his clients.

Bob is a Principal of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and the National Managing Director for Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC.  In each of his roles, he is focused on the marketplace. He utilizes the strength of a leading global financial services firm, with over 165,000 professionals, to solve client specific issues.

 

Mr. Dottori, a partner in Pillsbury's Global Sourcing group, has over 20 years of experience advising clients in large-scale, complex transactions. For the past several years he has advised a wide range of clients in sophisticated information technology transactions. His practice includes domestic and multinational information technology outsourcings and business process outsourcings. Mr. Dottori's sourcing experience includes IT infrastructure outsourcings, onshore and offshore application development and maintenance transactions, shared services arrangements, systems integration and software licensing. He counsels clients throughout the transaction life-cycle, from development of sourcing strategy, preparation of competitive solicitation documentation (including request for proposals,) creation of supplier evaluation criteria and participation in supplier selection to formulation of transaction architecture, contract development and negotiation. Mr. Dottori also advises clients in a variety of areas after a transaction has closed. For example, during the operational phase of sourcing transactions Mr. Dottori has prepared plain-English operational guides and compliance manuals for client executives and operating staff, assisted in the creation or realignment of governance models, negotiated contract restructurings and documented price benchmarking initiatives designed to reduce the supplier charges being paid by the client during the operations phase. His clients have included multinational companies in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, technology and financial services sectors.

Mr. Dottori's experience also includes preparation of satellite systems procurement documents (both terrestrial and space segments) and a wide range of domestic and international independent power transactions, including energy outsourcings. His energy work includes advising banks, multi-lateral institutions, developers and electric utilities in the negotiation of construction and operations & maintenance agreements, financing documentation and, in emerging markets, concession agreements with government enterprises.

Mr. Dottori is a frequent conference panelist in sourcing and technology transactions.

Mr. Dottori was ranked among the top tiers of Technology and IT Outsourcing lawyers by Chambers USA in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. According to clients interviewed in this process, he is "responsive and practical — he doesn't overlawyer, he understands business risks and he tends to get the project moving." Further comment was that "he's clear — businesspeople listen to him, understand him and like what he offers."

 

Trace Harris is Senior Vice President, Strategy & Development, Media at Vivendi, whose holdings include Universal Music Group, Activision Blizzard, Canal+ Group, mobile phone operator SFR, Brazilian telecom operator GVT, and a minority interest in NBC Universal.  She is Vivendi’s senior corporate development executive in the United States focusing on corporate strategy, major acquisitions and divestitures, and daily relationship with various US holdings.  Ms. Harris is based in New York and has held this position for 9 years.

Previously, Ms. Harris was Senior Vice President of Strategic Development for the Television Group of Universal Studios based in Los Angeles.  She was responsible for developing and implementing operating and new business strategies for Universal Television in key European territories.  In addition, she was responsible for designing and launching Universal’s first international television network.  Prior to Universal Studios, Ms. Harris worked in Strategy and subsequently International Television at Warner Bros, where she worked on the launch of Warner Bros.’ first international television channel in Latin America.  She started her career in finance with JP Morgan in New York.

Ms. Harris has represented Vivendi, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., in several joint ventures and brings a strong background in partnership management.  In addition, she participates on the boards of Universal Music Group and NBC Universal. 

Ms. Harris is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale School of Management, and lives in New York with her husband and son.

 

Mark Keim is Head of Corporate Development for Aetna responsible for identifying growth strategies and executing transactions for Aetna’s core health care businesses as well as its HCIT initiative activities within the US and international markets. Mark’s responsibilities also include management of Aetna Ventures, Aetna’s venture capital and partnership investing function.

These positions cap a series of leadership roles in Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions for Keim. He joined Aetna from General Electric where he led Strategy and business Development as Senior Vice President for its Europe Middle East and Africa operations based in London. While at GE, he also led business development in varied roles at GE Healthcare and was Staff Executive for M&A at GE’s Corporate Headquarters in Fairfield, CT. In these positions, Keim worked extensively on numerous acquisitions, divestitures and partnership with deals executed exceeding $100 billion in value.

Mark began his career in Mergers & Acquisitions at Salomon Brothers in New York City and has played leadership roles in a series of international M&A assignments.

Keim holds a B.S. degree in Finance and Accounting from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

 

Karen is Vice President, Mergers, Acquisitions, Alliances and Ventures for The McGraw-Hill Companies, where she is responsible for developing portfolio expansion opportunities and working closely with the company’s business units on their growth and acquisition strategies.

Karen originally joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in London in 2006 as Director, Strategy & Acquisitions - Europe, where she helped identify and evaluate European acquisition opportunities and shape the company’s European growth strategy.

Before joining The McGraw-Hill Companies, Karen was an Associate in the Technology/Media/Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Earlier in her career, she worked as an investment professional at Three Cities Research, a special situations private equity firm. Prior to that, she worked as a Business Analyst in the Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Co.

Karen earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude with a concentration in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is conversant in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

 

David Livingston is Vice President of Business Development for Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW), a Fortune 200 diversified manufacturer of highly engineered components and industrial systems and consumables.  With 2009 revenues of $13.9 billion, ITW is a multinational manufacturer of a diversified range of value-adding and short lead-time industrial products and equipment.  The Company consists of 800 business units in 57 countries and employs some 59,000 people.  Mr. Livingston is responsible for ITW’s global acquisition strategy with a focus on corporate-level acquisition and divestiture activity.

Mr. Livingston joined the company in 1999 when ITW acquired Premark International.  At the time of the acquisition he was Managing Director of Wilsonart UK after previously having held various planning and financial reporting positions within Premark.  Since the ITW acquisition, Mr. Livingston served as Group Controller of several ITW divisions including Industrial Components, Finishing Systems, and Automotive.

Mr. Livingston graduated from University of Michigan in 1984 with a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) in accounting and finance.  He received a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and is a certified public accountant.

 

Since 2007, Roger Marinzoli has served as Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions for Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, an S&P 500 company in the hospitality and leisure sector.  He has 17 years of experience in the global M&A and financing practices, as both a principal acquirer and as a corporate advisor. 

In prior roles, he served as an M&A investment banker with Lehman Brothers, and then as a venture capital principal for the Marco Polo Companies, an overseas investment vehicle incubated by Lehman Brothers and LeBouef, Lamb. In addition to traditional M&A activities, his experience includes strategic development, private equity funding and public equity & debt financing.  Geographically, he has executed transactions in most developed and emerging markets, especially in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.  He has worked across a variety of industries, including real estate, hospitality, power, telecommunications, financial services, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

Roger Marinzoli is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations, and he holds a master’s degree in international economics from The Johns Hopkins University.   He is currently pursuing his executive MBA at Cornell University.

 

Brian P. McDonagh is Managing Director and Co-Head of Baird's overall global M&A practice.  In this role, he works across all of Baird's industry groups to lead the execution and provide expert senior tactical and process strategy advice on many of the firm's most important advisory transactions.  In addition, he plays an active senior banker role with many of Baird's key clients and is a member of the firm's Management and Fairness Opinion committees.  Mr. McDonagh has over 25 years of experience in the global M&A market, through which he has developed extensive experience in originating and executing a broad range of strategic transactions for publicly-traded, sponsor-owned and privately-owned middle market companies across a wide variety of industries, including consumer, industrial, health care, business services, real estate, energy and technology. 

Prior to joining Baird, Mr. McDonagh was a founder of and spent over 13 years in a leadership role in the Global M&A Group at what is now Wells Fargo Securities.  In this capacity, he served as Chairman of the firm's Fairness Opinion Committee and played a senior M&A role on a wide variety of the firm's most important advisory transactions across multiple industry groups.  Early in his career, Mr. McDonagh spent more than 10 years in New York in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group of what is now JPMorgan Chase, working on a broad set of M&A transactions across a variety of industry segments throughout the world.  He is a frequent speaker and panel member at various M&A industry conferences, as well as the author of numerous articles in various global M&A publications throughout his career.  Mr. McDonagh received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College outside of Philadelphia, PA.

 

Nikos is currently VP of Corporate Development and International Strategy with Office Depot (NYSE: ODP).   Prior to Office Depot, Nikos had various senior executive roles in business development and general management with the following technology firms in both Europe and the U.S.: Tyco Electronics (NYSE: TEL), Grapes Communications (Rome, Italy), and Global Telesystems (NYSE: GTS) (Rome, Italy).   Prior to that, Nikos served as a lawyer holding senior counsel and regulatory law positions with Esprit Telecom plc (Reading, UK), Orion Network Systems (Rockville, MD), and the law firms of Blooston, Mordkosfky, Jackson & Dickens (Washington, DC) and Kilpatrick & Cody (Brussels, Belgium). 

Nikos holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire, and a Juris Doctorate from the Chicago Kent College of Law.  Nikos is a U.S. trained lawyer registered to practice in the state of Illinois, and the District of Columbia and is also a registered patent lawyer with the United States.  Nikos is also a member of the Association of Corporate Growth.  In addition to Greek and English, he speaks Italian, French and Spanish.

 

John Paffenbarger manages strategic initiatives and analyses within the Corporate Strategy and Development group of Constellation Energy, including acquisitions and divestitures of power plants and other businesses. He has led Constellation’s active participation in over $2 billion worth of plant acquisitions and sales, most recently Constellation’s purchase of two gas-fired power plants in Texas.

Prior to joining Constellation in 2002, Dr. Paffenbarger was Director of Strategic Planning at Orion Power Holdings, where he was responsible for market and financial analysis of power plant acquisitions, greenfield development projects and plant capital investment projects.

From 1995 to 2000, Dr. Paffenbarger was Principal Administrator for Electricity at the International Energy Agency, an inter-governmental organization located in Paris, France, which provides energy information and coordinates energy policy among the developed countries. Prior to the IEA, Dr. Paffenbarger held senior project management and engineering positions at Bechtel Group, France’s National Coal Company, and Westinghouse Science and Technology Center.

Dr. Paffenbarger holds a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

 

Kristin Peck is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Business Development and Innovation for Pfizer Inc and a member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. In this role, Ms. Peck is responsible for Pfizer’s merger and acquisition, licensing, venture capital, alliance management and business model innovation activities.

In her Business Development role over the last year, Ms. Peck has overseen the completion of numerous deals, including recent ones involving King Pharmaceuticals, FoldRx, Biocon and Teuto.  She also led the team that launched a first-of-its-kind enterprise-wide, web-based platform focused on innovation to harness the creative energies and insights of Pfizer colleagues to drive continued growth at Pfizer.

Previously at Pfizer, Ms Peck was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Business Development, Strategy and Innovation; and before that she was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Strategy and Innovation. Ms. Peck’s Strategy team led the development of Pfizer’s current strategies and global operating model review process. With Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth in 2009, she led the global integration, focused on ensuring it successfully delivered the promised value for patients, customers, shareholders and other stakeholders. 

Prior to joining Pfizer, Ms. Peck was a principal with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), focusing on strategy and merger-related issues in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. Before BCG, Ms. Peck worked in private equity and real estate finance at Prudential, The O’Connor Group and J.P. Morgan. Ms. Peck holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Ms. Peck and her husband live in Connecticut with their two children and dogs.

 

Greg Psihas is Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions of the Corporate Business Development group at Applied Materials.  Appointed VP in December, 2007, Psihas is responsible for the company’s transaction execution and integration activities.  He has served as the company’s primary deal lead and lead negotiator since coming to Applied in December, 2005.  Since joining, he has closed over $1.5 billion in acquisitions, including three of the companies’ largest transactions.  Psihas was instrumental in acquiring two key crystalline silicon solar business making Applied the world’s largest c-Si solar equipment manufacturer.

Prior to joining Applied Materials, Mr. Psihas was Director of Corporate Development at Eaton Corporation where he was engaged in global buy and sell side transactions.  Eaton is a $15 billion diversified industrial supplier of electrical, fluid power, automotive and truck systems.  From 1999 to 2003 Mr. Psihas worked for an investment of the private equity fund Apollo Management LP, Clark Retail Group as Director of Mergers & Acquisitions.  A $2.5 billion business, the company was engaged in a roll-up strategy of convenience store chains in the central United States.  During that time, he closed nine transactions within 3 years with sales in excess of $1.3 billion.  Immediately following business school in 1998, Psihas worked in the corporate M&A department at CNA Financial Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, an $18 billion global insurance company.  Psihas spent the first 9 years of his career at Shell Oil Company in various finance roles of increasing responsibility within the downstream refining and marketing organization.  In his most recent position, he was responsible for the implementation of corporate business strategy and performance measurement initiatives.

Mr. Psihas received an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.  He also holds a B.S. degree in Economics and Political Science from Michigan State University.

 

Marie D. Quintero-Johnson is Vice President and Director of Mergers & Acquisitions for The Coca-Cola Company.  In her role she manages a team of 20 professionals responsible for evaluating and executing all merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions of the Corporation on a global level.  She assumed her current position in March 2002 after spending three years as Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer where she was an integral part of assisting the Company in implementing strategic opportunities.

Marie joined the Company in July 1992 as a principal financial analyst focusing on Latin America.  Since that time she has moved through the Company’s Finance organization to positions of increasing responsibility, including two years in treasury services, and almost four years as an analyst then a manager in Mergers & Acquisitions again focusing on Latin America.  Prior to joining the Company and obtaining her graduate degree, Marie spent 2 years with Coopers & Lybrand as an audit associate.

Ms. Quintero-Johnson received her Masters in Business Administration in May 1992 from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia.  She received her Bachelors of Science in Accounting, International Business from Georgetown University.

Ms. Quintero-Johnson is a Certified Public Accountant and a native of Miami, Florida.

 

Jeanne Quirk is Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for Tyco Electronics Ltd. (NYSE: TEL), a leading global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, specialty products and subsea communication systems, with fiscal 2010 sales of US$12.1 billion to customers in more than 150 countries and an employee base of 68,000 .  Ms. Quirk is responsible for the execution of all of Tyco Electronics’ acquisition and divestiture activity.  She has held the role since 2004.

Ms. Quirk joined the company in 2000 as Director of Finance, Acquisition Accounting and Integration where she had responsibility for post-acquisition integration and support.  Prior to Tyco Electronics, Ms. Quirk was a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Transaction Services Group.

Ms. Quirk graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and is a certified public accountant.

 

Daniel Raskas joined Danaher in 2004 as head of the Corporate Development team.  He manages a corporate team of M&A professionals, with oversight for the business development specialists throughout Danaher.  Daniel leads his team through all aspects of M&A and investment activity, including identification, cultivation, valuation, due diligence, contract strategy and negotiations.

Prior to joining Danaher, Daniel was a partner at Thayer Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on buyout and growth equity investments in the middle market.

Daniel has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University.

 

Anton Sahazizian is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Sahazizian has extensive experience advising clients on mergers & acquisitions and was most recently a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at UBS Investment Bank in New York. Mr. Sahazizian worked at UBS for nearly 10 years, and in his most recent role was the senior banker responsible for the origination and execution of M&A transactions for some of the largest global industrials companies in the chemicals, capital goods, paper, packaging, forest products and energy sectors. He advised on numerous high-profile strategic M&A transactions within the sector and was responsible for related coverage of corporate clients as well as private equity firms. Mr. Sahazizian started his investment banking career in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and was one of the founders of UBS' Los Angeles office and their Exclusive Sales and Divestitures Group. Previously, he was a securities lawyer in Toronto, Canada, with McMillan Binch and Goodman and Carr.

Mr. Sahazizian holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. He also graduated from Queen's University Law School in Kingston, Ontario and holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

 

Jeff Weirens is a leader in Deloitte's Merger Integration and Divestiture practice. He serves as a trusted advisor to senior client executive teams and Boards of Directors on improving shareholder returns through effective execution of acquisition, divestiture, and restructuring strategies.

With over 20 years experience Jeff works closely with both strategic and private equity clients across the entire M&A lifecycle. He's an expert at establishing merger integration and divestiture governance, organization, and operating models, exceeding synergy targets, optimizing transition service agreements and resulting cost structures, and planning and executing an issue-free Day 1 customer and employee experience.

Jeff has led many of Deloitte's most complex projects and his clients' most iconic transactions through his work in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, Romania, Spain, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

 

Timothy Wilkins is a corporate partner in the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Tim has extensive experience representing European, Asian and US corporations on cross-border mergers & acquisitions.  A Chambers Global highly recommended lawyer in M&A in Japan, Tim has 11 years' experience working in Tokyo as an investment banker and lawyer.  Tim is a founding member of the firm's Global Diversity Committee.  Tim’s recent transactional experience includes advising Zhejiang Geely Holding Group on its purchase of Volvo Car Corporation from Ford Motor Company for $1.8 billion (Atlas M&A Deal of the Year $1-5 Billion) and Solvay on its $7 billion sale of its pharmaceuticals business to Abbott Laboratories.  Tim serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee of The Opportunity Agenda and on the Boards of the Dalton School, Peer Health Exchange and Practicing Attorneys for Law School Students (PALS).  He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College in Sociology and has a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. 

 

Andrew “Andy” Wilson specializes in providing accounting and finance services relating to mergers and acquisitions (M&As). He has worked with many of Deloitte & Touche LLP’s most significant strategic and private equity clients, leading buy and sell-side due diligence services for domestic and international transactions. In connection with this work, Andy has significant experience in helping companies maximize the value of dispositions through effective sell-side due diligence. He leads the U.S. M&A Transaction Services practice for divestitures, in addition to his role as U.S. M&A leader for automotive transactions. In addition to automotive, Andy’s experience covers a broad range of industries, including industrial products and chemicals, as well as general manufacturing, distribution and services.

Andy has significant global experience working with clients in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, with transactions involving most other global manufacturing centers. He has managed complex, carve-out transactions and has established a broad network of global resources. Andy has been part of M&A Transaction Services for over ten years, before which he worked with Deloitte & Touche LLP’s audit group.

“The devil is in the details. Many transactions are initiated based on key strategic goals of the merger or acquisition, which will ultimately drive the deal’s long-term value over the years to come. The transaction execution, actually doing the deal, needs sharp focus on all details to ensure that the longer-term, broader value is set up properly. Glossing over or not paying enough attention to small details can wind up leaking long-term value.”