Functional Skills

Change Management / Org Design
Business Planning
M&A Support
Financial Due Diligence
Go-to-market Strategy
Customer Experience
Customer Segmentation
Process Design / Re-engineering
Organizational Design
Communications
Agile Software Development
Business Development
Collateral Development
Finance Transformation

Software Skills

Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Premier Pro
Dropbox
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Project
Quickbooks
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
SurveyMonkey
Cloud computing
SAP CRM
Storage Area Network (SAN)

Certifications

CCMPCertified Change Management Professional

Sector Experience

Financial Services
Healthcare
Industrials
Technology
Travel & Hospitality

Languages

English
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

Amplify Global Consulting Management Consulting
Founder / CEO / Principal
9/2021 - Present
• Helping companies realize their vision, grow their business, and thrive during transformative and disruptive events
• Practice areas include strategy and planning, launch and growth, M&A and alliances, transformation and change, and marketing and communications
• Led $300m merger between market-leading dermatology practices, which quickly became a turnaround project in addition to a merger, with a discovery process, full management team turnover, aggressive banking/loan milestones and strategy shift. On track to exceed synergy goals by $24m (original goal of $5.4m)
• Led change management workstream for $3.1b acquisition by a $1b financial services firm, achieving HR KPIs and resulting in new playbook for function and new company-wide tools

Alvarez & Marsal Management Consulting
Senior Director
10/2019 - 9/2021
• Lead on projects including M&A, transformation, operating model & org design, GTM, change management
• Part of leadership team for M&A practice developing practice IP and driving business development and marketing efforts; perform similar duties for the Human Capital & Organizational Design practice, including white paper development and creation of new firm offerings
• Co-led development of A&M’s Executive Transition Lab targeting C-suite execs and board members
• Led revamp of CMO training

McAfee Corporate Strategy & Development
Head of M&A Integration
2/2019 - 10/2019
• As key member of Corp Dev & Strategy team, functioned not only as E2E integration lead on all deals, but also served as deal execution lead for acquisitions and as a global corporate strategist / planner
• Closed McAfee’s first two deals in 1.5 years, managing E2E deal execution process and integration on both
• Conducted sweeping assessment of past acquisitions to create a detailed improvement plan for integration process

Samsung NEXT Corporate Strategy & Development
Sr M&A Integration Manager
6/2017 - 1/2019
• E2E integration lead on 16 deals in various stages (most undisclosed, not all closed), from pre-LOI and diligence through execution, leading teams in strategy, operational planning, and integration planning and execution
• After in-depth review of all past acquisitions, created new PMI process, playbooks, tools, markedly improving outcomes
• Led operational streamlining process for all Samsung NEXT global offices (six offices in five countries)
• Led Diversity & Inclusion Task Force

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Corporate Strategy & Development
Sr M&A Integration Manager
8/2014 - 6/2017
• Led or supported ~ 20 acquisitions and divestitures ranging in value from $9m to $8.6b, driving projects from strategy and diligence, budget and synergy development through close and post-merger execution
• Led C-suite and functional teams on strategy/planning, cross-border legal merge, workforce planning, process engineering, Employee Day 1, complex tech integrations, TSA/MSA development, op and org redesign
• Led and drove change management strategies on several deals

Microsoft Management Consulting
Transformation & Change Management Consultant
3/2013 - 3/2014
• ISCI: Drove stakeholder engagement & change mgmt for $90m C-suite initiative to optimize MSFT’s global supply chain
• ECO: Designed PMO, managed leadership engagement for an engineering transformation project focused on moving from waterfall to Agile methodology, including process and role mapping, and org redesign
• SALES vNEXT: Led change management for org redesign and strategic refocus

Amplify Consulting Management Consulting
Founder / Principal
9/2004 - 3/2013
• Led global consulting firm specializing in business strategy & transformation, market entry & marketing
• Representative projects including serving as Marketing Director for a loyalty tech co and a high-end restaurant group, a marketing consultant in Ghana for a biofuel co, a market-entry consultant in Ghana and Nigeria for an alcoholic beverage co, a senior business planning strategist for an int'l nonprofit focused on ending poverty, a business planning strategist for an int'l printing co

GS Biodiesel Start-Up
Co-Founder / EVP Operations
9/2004 - 6/2008
• Co-founded and managed company with $2m in angel investment, 150 employees, >2m hectares in land deals with tribes, govn’t deal with bus company and 80k hectares of jatropha planted, resulting in buyout offer in

Various Marketing
Relevant Previous Roles
2/1995 - 8/2003
• WOMEN’S FUNDING ALLIANCE: Marketing & Comms Director for philanthropic organization
• ONYX SOFTWARE: Global PR Director for public company w/10 global offices and 6 PR agencies
• SPRINT PCS: PR Consultant, doubling revenue through integrated regional brand introduction and launch
• BOSTON MARKET: PR Consultant leading regional expansion, resulting in nation’s highest sales growth
• PR AGENCY ROLES: The KMC Group, Firmani & Associates, EvansGroup
• NIC: Project Mgr for e-govn't projects