Managing Director, MHT Partners

Senior Consultant, Bain & Company

Communities Product Manager, AOL Netscape

MBA, Stanford

BA, Humanities and Managerial Studies, Rice University

Representative Projects

  • Evaluated investment and divestiture opportunities to manage cashflow strategy for a public company in a rapidly consolidating news media industry
  • Developed detailed post-merger integration plan to identify operational and financial synergies and to maximize revenue in a $120 million merger of business logistics services companies
  • Managed buy side program with multiple add-on acquisitions for SaaS education platform resulting in successful $300 million portfolio exit
  • Led due diligence for $100+ million acquisition of a high margin niche business, radically expanding the services portfolio of a tax services company
  • Developed valuation model enabling one of largest deals in UK history, a $35 billion merger of global consumer goods conglomerates
  • Performed detailed long-term scenario modeling for global beverages M&A during a period of intense industry consolidation, enabling development of growth and defensive strategies for a $5 billion alcoholic beverages producer
  • Led profitability study to segment market, prioritize customer base, and evaluate channel economics for a US automotive manufacturer.
  • Developed detailed analysis of top 50 acquisition targets for a geopolitical/ macroeconomic think tank influential in governments and institutional investors

Expertise

Industries

  • Consumer Products
  • Financial Services
  • Food and Beverage

Project Types

  • Growth Strategy
  • M&A Strategy
  • Due Diligence
  • Market Analysis
  • Post-merger Integration
  • Market Segmentation

Representative Clients

Companies

  • Blackboard (Archipelago Learning)
  • Freeman Company
  • A. H. Belo
  • Ryan LLC (tax services)
  • Diageo (Guinness)
  • FEMSA (Heineken)
  • Ford
  • Navistar
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Del Monte Royal
  • Norton Rose (law M&A)

PE Firms

  • Providence Equity Partners
  • Carlyle Group
  • BV Investment
  • Castanea Partners
  • JH Whitney