Benjamin Harper Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Fairmont provides due diligence and strategic advisory services, helping clients forecast business performance and develop plans to accelerate growth in the markets of Aerospace, Defense, Government Services, and Space. We serve financial sponsors and corporate clients as they make complex and critical business decisions that require both deeply rigorous.

Cambridge, MA

• Boutique consultancy providing market due diligence and growth strategies to private equity and strategic clients exclusively in the areas of commercial aerospace, defense and government
• Managed teams of 2-3 professionals to conduct due diligence and strategy engagements for an array of defense & aerospace companies large and small, including aerostructure fabricators and system suppliers, unmanned.
• Conducted multiple due diligence engagements under aggressive deadlines mandated by transaction process
• Performed strategy engagements including M&A screen development and prioritization, market sizing and growth strategy development
• Functional duties included operational and financial modeling, market trend analysis, customer interviews, strategy development and delivery of presentations to clients and lenders

Cambridge, MA

Wichita, Kansas Area

• World’s largest independent aerostructures supplier, serving both Boeing and Airbus
• Conducted study to determine root causes and mitigation paths for inventory shortages between aerostructures Assembly Division and Fabrication Division o Independently developed relationships across organization to.
• Developed technical requirements and business case for “blue streak” rapid structural composites fabrication process to mitigate the impact of supply chain delays on Spirit’s 787 production line
• Supported initial operational modeling of subordinate aerostructures assembly facility to support production rate increase

Houston, Texas Area

• Focused on financial modeling, performance benchmarking, customer segmentation, and competitor analysis
• Served clients in telecom (next-gen network strategy, call center operations, consumer offer rationalization, customer profitability tracking database) and healthcare (shared services benchmarking analysis and cost.

Mba, Ms, Business And Materials Science

Activities and Societies: Leaders For Global Operations Fellow (Program formerly known as Leaders For Manufacturing)

Bs Che, Ba, Chemical Engineering, Economics