Les (Leslie) Kende Email & Phone Number

I am a seasoned mergers and acquisitions professional with a solid foundation in both investment banking firms and natural resources producing companies as both a corporate executive and start-up entrepreneur, with P&L responsibility. With considerable due diligence experience, I understand the materiality of any concerns and identify potential mitigating strategies, increasing the probability of deal success. I have a keen sense for potential risk in the financial, cash management, commercial, contractual and operational aspects of M&A&D transactions that can be identified during the due diligence process. I have been involved in asset and corporate deals varying in size from $50,000 to $4+ Billion, ranging from simple to multi-stage complexity, and family-owned businesses to multi-national Fortune 500 operating companies. Fluency in financial modeling and forecasting has been my underpinning to these successful deals. I make strategies understandable and tangible by envisioning and conveying problems in a useable way across multiple disciplines such as tech, finance, engineering, legal, and operations enabling critical paths of planning, analysis and realization.I am able to articulate ideas to form a coherent, well packaged, consumable, strategic story from an objective, 360 view of business opportunities that speaks to both C-Level executives and Boards of Directors on both the buy and sell sides. I know how to balance messaging and communications with key value drivers to build agreement and buy-in.I am adept at creating credibility and identifying key stakeholder drivers to grow and sustain relationships, progress negotiations and close deals. I have been equally effective in team meetings, board rooms or conference rooms, having delivered numerous well-constructed marketing and board presentations as well has presenting expert M&A&D and commodity outlooks to industry.lfkende@gmail.com

Listed skills include Leadership, Reserves, Gas, Geology, and 30 others.