Leading Rocket's corporate development team, which partners closely with our executive team to drive all aspects of Rocket's inorganic growth strategy worldwide. Completed over a dozen transactions with $1.7B+ in enterprise value spanning transformational M&A, cross-border deals, carve-outs, founder-owned businesses, PE-backed companies, and intellectual property partnerships.

The Watermill Group is a strategy-driven private investing firm that revitalizes companies to drive superior returns. We seek out businesses at a crossroads and inject them with the entrepreneurial vision, management expertise and capital required to realize their full potential.Responsibilities include evaluation, analysis, due diligence, and execution of new investments and selected portfolio company special projects.

Private equity firm focused on lower middle market buyouts. Responsibilities included business development, deal analysis, and various portfolio company improvement efforts.

Stroud is an operations & management consulting firm with a reputation for helping clients achieve rapid, breakthrough results. Notable experiences included factory-floor efficiency gains for consumer packaged goods companies and streamlining monthly closing processes for a publicly-traded oil & gas firm.

Ran Gomez’s corporate development function, reporting directly to the CEO. Coordinated a 6-person cross-functional team that vetted 300+ companies in a top-down acquisition search across 5 technology industry subsectors in North America and Europe. Sourced leads, prepared strategic plans, and managed an investment banking advisory team. Departed after sale of company to Compuware.

Investment Banking Division, Industrials Coverage

Led credit research coverage of 15+ companies with over $2.4bn of exposure to JPMorgan’s lending portfolio in various industrial sectors.