Functional Skills

Financial Due Diligence
Financial Modeling
M&A Support
Market Research
Project Management
Economic Analysis
Growth Strategy
Market Intelligence
Predictive Modeling
Valuation
Accounting
Benchmarking
Financial Management
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Private Equity Investing

Software Skills

G Suite
MacOS
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word

Certifications

CLSSGBCertified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Sector Experience

Automotive
Energy
Industrials
Technology
Transportation & Logistics

Languages

English
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian
French
Fortune 500

Experience

Ares Dynamics Corporate Strategy & Development
Director
5/2018 - Present
Management advisory and M&A (Buy & Sell sides) for family office with assets and companies in US and overseas. Quantitative analytical support towards the assembly of capital (buy-side M&A) with management firm.

• Advised CEOs, Partners, Principals, and HNW individual on 5 projects, including M&A (buy/sell side), valuations, pipeline generation for investor outreach and pitchbooks.
• Management advisory - provide corporate restructuring, strategic management planning and due diligence support.
• Capital raising - lead relationship with clients, investment bankers, and other related parties when needs to raise capital are expected, or strategic discussion (M&A and LBO’s) are required.
• Valuation - deliver valuations for mergers and acquisitions, leverage buyouts and divestitures.
• Financial Modeling - produce models for optimizations and operational performance reporting.

NEXT Group Holdings, LLC Start-Up
Partner, Corporate Development and Strategy
5/2019 - Present
Led end-to-end deal processes, including market research, financial modeling, deal structuring, due diligence, negotiations. Developed a robust pipeline of investment opportunities. Partnered with cross-functional teams on post-transaction integration & value realization.
• Led analytics for $1B+ LBO acquisition of public company, working jointly with investment bankers, management consortium and related parties (private equity and family offices). Delivered well-received recommendations.
• Identified and valued a game-changing technology that led to its acquisition, following competitive analysis.
• Succeeded in raising tens of millions of dollars in capital based on corporate development strategy and pipeline. Conducted investor outreach, in partnership with bankers.

REV Group Corporate Strategy & Development
Corporate Development Director (Automotive) Company manufactures specialized vehicles)
5/2017 - 5/2018
Hired to 1) Vet roughly 30 projects and shepherd selected projects through the deal process (80% of role) and 2) assess two troubled manufacturing plants.

• Successfully vetted projects, recommending two acquisitions; recommendations were well received.
• Led end-to-end deal process for two acquisitions totaling $110M, in partnership with VP of Corporate Development; sourcing, financial modeling, due diligence, debt restructuring and negotiations. Deals closed successfully.
• Concluded two JVs, one in China, the other in Germany, totaling $90M total invested capital; oversaw end to end process, including analytics, modeling, and deal negotiation.
• Delivered recommendations on turning around manufacturing plant that were accepted; oversaw implementation, resulting in substantial increase to bottom line.

Maersk Corporate Strategy & Development
Business Development and Corporate Strategy Manager (Shipping Services, Oil & Gas)
9/2014 - 5/2017
Responsible for end-to-end corporate development: M&A, tenders, JVs, new market entries; lead all research. 

• Led team in sourcing through closing 12 deals, with individual deals ranging from $5m to $45m.
• Delivered on mandate to rapidly grow the business; grew 5X via acquisitions and competitive entry.
• Identified and modeled strategy that was accepted and implemented; model predicted perfectly the medium to long-term revenue gains that would accrue after initial losses.
• Increased footprint in 3 countries, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina; broke into two regional monopolies.
• Asked by another Maersk division to advise on fleet deployment in Americas based on track record gaining traction in seemingly closed markets.
• Led commercial integration strategy with the parent company for two acquisitions in Brazil and Argentina.
• Built productive relationships with internal stakeholders, which ensured acquisition buy-in and smooth integration, e.g., Operations, Finance, Legal, and HR.

Apple Finance
Senior Analyst – Corporate Finance - Financial, Reporting & Compensation
8/2013 - 6/2014
Asked to take on additional responsibilities within three months based on initial achievements. Responsible for producing quarterly revenue forecasts, cost of sales and ad-hoc analysis, along with compensation actions for Latin America
• Took initiative to automate all revenue forecast process from manual spreadsheets (5 Billion revenue/Year), within the first 3 months in the role; reduced process time by two thirds.
• Delivered quarterly business review that was presented directly to the C level.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Finance
Various roles
11/2008 - 8/2013
Sr. Financial Analyst – WW Financial Operations
Conducted post-merger valuation, risk management & deployment support tasks. Identified overvalued contracts by controllership during merger activities, resulting in a proper revaluation.
Business Analyst – Latin America
Develop statistical reports to forecast, analyze and track HPs business effectiveness.
• Reduced marketing spend by 20% while maintaining performance, via recommendations from statistical analysis.
• Received award for developing operational review templates that improved productivity.