Clients Served: GE Healthcare, Sephora, Duke Energy, HGGC, Redesign Health, All3Media, KraftHeinz, CommonSpirit Health, Little League, OkCupid, The Carlysle Group, Viking Cruises


Key initiatives:
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Served as Interim CFO and Head of Growth for the cofounder of Blue Apron's new venture focused on regenerative agriculture.

Directly impacted the growth and profitability of a now $5B+ innovative healthcare provider through the following key initiatives:
• Closed a large and complex deal adding 70+ sites to the practice
• Developed the investment pitch leading to a $200M equity raise
• Drove the strategic overhaul of the business development pitch enabling new partnership opportunities
• Brought new M&A financial and due diligence tools to the organization

Responsible for driving high priority strategic initiatives for a fertility start-up including:

• Developed the pricing strategy of a key service offering; Next Generation Sequencing
• Initiated the operational build out of the Company's egg freezing storage program
• Developed meaningful market intelligence

Worked directly with the Chief Innovation Officer of an $8.4B ingredient provider to deliver global strategies to meet the dynamic needs of F&B consumers. Key functions included development of market intelligence, competitor mapping, customer segmentation and financial and operational gap analyses.

Additional initiatives:
• Worked with leading scientists and head of R&D to drive the five-year R&D plan
• Sourced a new commercial opportunity for the NA region to help meet an LRP P&L gap

• Managed buy-side and sell-side M&A deals throughout Latin America across multiple P&L’s (i.e., Healthcare, Power, Renewable Energy). Managed all deal aspects
•Spearheaded strategic business plan to position regional business unit as local market leader. Senior leadership leveraged key aspects of the plan outside of the region

Led M&A sell-side and buy-side engagements, business valuations, purchase price allocations and fairness opinions for various industries and business entities across Brazil.

Performed business valuations to support M&A, restructuring, financial reporting, and tax planning on behalf of technology, consumer products, industrial and financial services clients. Valued intellectual property (e.g., patents, technology, trade names, IPR&D) as well as other intangible assets (e.g. customer lists/relationships and non-competition agreements).