Functional Skills
Sector Experience
Experience
- Built and maintained relationships with founders and brokers to generate proprietary deal flow
- Conducted direct cold outreach and added 150 net new software companies to the M&A pipeline
- Researched and analysed the SaaS market for fleet-management, identifying several high-potential acquisition targets in a new vertical for the group
- Sourced the first bolt-on acquisition in France for a €2bn revenue Nordic accounting SaaS platform
- Defined the M&A strategy in continental Europe for a £700m UK-based ERP and HR software platform, identifying key verticals and markets for expansion, and reporting to the CEO of the HR unit
- Formalized the origination strategy for France, a new core market, developing a pipeline and activity dashboard to coordinate outreach, advisor and sponsor coverage, and conference attendance
- Rebuilt the firm's CRM, working with the internal CRM manager and external developers to overhaul data structure and automate workflows
- Managed sell-side due diligence for a mid-market cloud services provider that included market sizing, customer and competitor interviews, and a business plan assessment
- Led buyside commercial due diligence on a provider of DevOps software for SAP environments, which included competitor interviews, customer referencing, and market modelling
- Defined and evaluated revenue diversification strategy for Nordic mobile infrastructure company and assessed management's growth plan against customer intentions and market trends