Great Presenters, New Training Themes and "Fly-In" Format
by Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
As the M&A Leadership Council wraps up another year of training and facilitation for clients and alumni, I am so excited about what we will be doing in 2015. Our expanded training categories are now complimented by the new “Fly-In” venue at the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport. These convenient yet intense seminars will provide the attendee the content needed at low cost and in short-cycle, 12-hour modules.
In addition to the new offerings, we are excited about our expanded faculty roster. As many of you are aware, the M&A Leadership Council is the only organization of its kind that brings an unbiased volunteer group of the best professional service leaders and luminaries together to build an M&A training curriculum. Attendees to our conferences can be assured that the material is fresh, yet has been proven through the years of experience of these real world professionals.
Let me point out a few of our speakers and guest presenters for next year:
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Brian Bonner – Former CIO, Texas Instruments: Brian is an executive leader who has guided the business and technology aspects of IT operations, including e-commerce, IP protection, financial systems, supply chain, and analytics, as well as numerous P&L responsibilities.
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Regine Corrado – Partner, Baker & McKenzie: Regine’s legal practice focuses on multi-country cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions and foreign investment compliance.
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Len Gray – Former Head of Global M&A Practice, Mercer: Throughout a 30-year career at Mercer, Len led a worldwide team providing talent management, human capital strategy, cultural integration and leadership development.
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Vadim Gringolts – CTO, Binary Tree: Vadim is an expert in messaging and migration product strategy, having three decades’ experience developing gateways to connect dissimilar e-mail systems, product implementation, system architecture and messaging migration.
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Adam Haberman – Senior Manager, Crowe Horwath: Adam specializes in merger and acquisition transaction services, including buy-side and sell-side due diligence investigations, management consulting and developing financial projections."
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Brian Hengesbaugh – Partner, Baker & McKenzie: Brian advises clients on global privacy and information management, data security, breach notifications and IT matters, cross-border data flows and outsourcing; he is listed in Computer World Ranking of Top Privacy Advisors.
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Mark Herndon – Co-author, The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions, Jossey Bass: Mark is the President of M&A Partners, and specializes in strategy formulation and planning, communications, marketing and integration management.
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Jarrett Horne – Director, Citrix Systems: Jarrett works with Citrix Sharefile client organizations to maximize the effective use of a Virtual Data Rooms during due diligence.
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Veronika Nemeth – Partner, Baker & McKenzie: Veronika’s experience centers around large-scale global corporate structuring, post-acquisition integrations, spin-offs, international commercial transactions and other cross-border business law.
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Jack Prouty – President, M&A Leadership Council and Former Head M&A Integration Practice, KPMG: Jack has over 30 years’ line management and consulting experience, including advising on more than 50 mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and roll-ups.
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Doug Schrock – Partner, Crowe Horwath: During more than 20 years’ experience, Doug has addressed technology and business strategy, IT and operational due diligence, merger and acquisition integration, margin analysis, and compensation design, among other topics.
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John Sinkus – Senior Advisor, M&A Partners: John leverages his more than 30 years of business systems integration, enterprise architecture, and CIO experience to advise clients, as well as having managed IT operations for national and international firms.
- Ken Smith – Author, The Art of M&A Strategy, McGraw Hill: Ken is a former strategy specialist whose background includes work with McKinsey and Secor, as well as teaching at Canada’s University of Guelph.
For full bios, please CLICK HERE to visit the “Presenters” page of our website.
These are just a few of the accomplished cadre of professionals that make up the best team for delivering M&A expertise on the planet. My thanks go out to our entire faculty for making 2014 a great year and looking forward to an even better 2015.
To all of you, a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year from me and everyone on the Council staff.
Jim