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New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Advising senior leadership team of Prudential’s Customer Office and Retirement Retail Solutions group on a number of strategic growth initiatives to drive customer growth, asset retention, and profitability.

Advised the Global Business Transformation Group on strategic growth initiatives, including design and implementation of technology-enabled solutions for sales teams.

Greater New York City Area

• Supported growth of Retail Financial Services business unit by developing inorganic framework, target company deal pipeline, and execution plan to evaluate opportunistic financial technology M&A transactions, joint.
• Led cross-functional strategic review to address digital transformation and millennial customer base, including writing and presenting a research-driven strategic whitepaper for senior leadership.
• Sourced, evaluated (due diligence, financial modeling, investment theses), and structured mergers and acquisitions, venture capital strategic investments, joint ventures, and partnership transactions.Selected M&A.
• Project Poseidon – Leading hybrid robo-advisory investment platform
• Project Roundup – Digital investment advisory and financial planning platform
• Project Schwinn – Goal-based and personalized financial planning platform

Greater New York City Area

• Worked on Strategic Initiatives team focused on enterprise strategy and competitive intelligence for senior executive leadership and Board of Directors; developed enterprise strategic business implications and.
• Developed insights and implications for enterprise strategy for Annual Enterprise Strategy Review utilized by senior management and Board of Directors.
• Developed competitive assessment of market disruption caused by online financial advisory firms for internal executive management Growth Committee.
• Led internal consulting project that evaluated competitor retirement income solutions (market size, macro trends, adoption drivers, product innovation).
• Worked on development of dynamic market-sizing financial model to quantify assets in not-for-profit retirement industry (Higher Ed, K-12, Government, Healthcare).
• Led and facilitated cross-functional internal consulting project that assessed growth opportunities for institutional retirement business to evaluate growth opportunities and formulated execution roadmap.

Greater New York City Area

M&A advisor for Kadmon's platform acquisition of Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals; led cross-functional team on development of internal policies and procedures to support business operations.

Greater New York City Area

• Self-Employed M&A advisory and corporate development.Selected M&A Transactions:
• Kadmon Pharmaceuticals’ stock acquisition of Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals.
• Spanish Broadcasting Systems’ asset acquisition of KTBU, a Houston television station.
• MidCap Advisors’ stock acquisition of National Educational Music Co., Ltd.
• Cloud computing concern’s Series A financing.

Greater New York City Area

• Evaluated private equity investments across the technology, transportation, real estate and industrial sectors.
• Wrote and presented investment committee memoranda to support investment thesis for M&A add-on/bolt-on acquisition opportunities.
• Prepared company valuations, including leveraged buyout, merger, and discounted cash flow financial models, along with comparable company and precedent transaction analyses, and a full range of financial analyses.
• Evaluated credit agreements, capital structures and financial statements to resolve issues with distressed portfolio companies.Selected Transactions:
• Structured investment proposals for distressed Jack Nicklaus golf course developments (term sheets, promote waterfall, cash flow model).
• Led due diligence on four bolt-on acquisitions for LimoRes, Inc.

Greater New York City Area

Evaluated private equity investments in healthy and distressed middle-market companies.

Greater New York City Area

• Represented public companies and private equity firms on M&A transactions.Selected Transaction:
• Represented Verint Systems in all-cash public merger of Witness Systems, a workforce optimization software solution provider.

Greater New York City Area

Represented corporations, private equity funds, and hedge funds on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions across various industry sectors (healthcare services, media/entertainment, manufacturing, industrials, retail, pharmaceutical)

New Jersey

Assisted with the development of firmware for micro-processor based control system units. Developed electronic test units used by field engineers for troubleshooting legacy control units.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Juris Doctor - Jd

Bachelor Of Science - Bs