Key advisor to private equity firms and companies with focus in agriculture, technology, infrastructure products, and industrials. Facilitate and provide C-level transactional, operational, strategic, and financial expertise to focus companies driving value creation through various stages of the business life cycle. • Executive sponsor working with multiple private equity firms building thesis ideation, conducting due diligence on new platforms & carveouts, architecting value creation plans and participating in management presentations. • Leveraged industry and executive experience in building value-based perspectives over multiple platforms & investments. • Engage with privately held companies to drive strategy, professionalization, and scale.• Improve and enhanced company performance and profitability through business processes, cash flow management, KPIs, risk management, and strategic planning development.

Led global strategy planning and deployment, M&A, and capital allocation initiatives. Drove growth of the company by creating, assessing, and managing strategic business opportunities including acquisitions, mergers, partnerships, and major capital projects. Set M&A strategy, including product line additions, new platforms, and portfolio divestitures. Architected in-house corporate development capacity, including modeling, proprietary deal flow, investment bank network, and integration process and team. • Executed deal negotiations and structuring of transactions.• Integrated acquired entities and successfully executed acquisition case and synergies. • Collaborated with CEO to form Astec Digital platform by acquiring and integrating two technology companies, hiring CTO, and integrating technologies across the company’s Rock to Road™ product platform.Partnered with CEO to build and drive transformation strategy inclusive of new vision, business model, and growth initiatives with three pillars “Simplify, Focus, and Grow.” Architected global strategic plan process.• Professionalized board communications and engagement on strategic roadmap. Established a performance-based culture instilling accountability through tracking, reporting, and creating a regular cadence of progress communications to board.• Aligned organization on sustainable value creation through strategy framework centered on economic profit and value maximization with effective capital allocation. • Worked with leadership to evaluate and rationalize product line through economic profit framework while providing rigor to evaluating new products and investments under the Rock to Road™ value chain. Drove development of company’s capital allocation plan, including share repurchase plan, dividend strategy, and credit facilities to support growth and acquisitions. Managed investor relations, communications, and administration team. Managed and guided 60-person global IT team.

Served as executive officer and led global strategy development and planning, corporate finance, M&A, and treasury. Collaborated with executive team and board to set organic growth strategies and identify opportunities for acquisition via proprietary targeted process. Executed deal negotiations and structuring, due diligence, and integration of acquired companies. Translated strategic plans into operational objectives and annual plans driving value creation through market share gains, differentiated positions, and growth in revenue and enterprise value. Presented plans and updates to board of directors. Established and maintained relationships with analysts and investors as primary contact with investment community. • Completed 14 transactions deploying $200 million in capital.• Built and led global strategic and financial planning process that drove revenue growth of 4x. • Fostered acquisitions and organic growth strategies increasing market capitalization by 4x.• Negotiated senior debt financings and revolving lines of credit for org, including $115 million debt private placement, $50 million line of credit, and numerous term debt facilities for acquisitions. Developed credit and financing relationships to build offering of leasing and credit programs extended to customers. • Architected foreign currency hedging management program, including utilization of derivative contracts for both transaction hedges and balance sheet hedges of foreign assets. • Crafted accounting policies and internal controls processes for treasury and cash management procedures to comply with SOX.• Identified cost savings, working capital improvements, and ROIC improvements and worked with executive teams to implement. • Managed relationships with financial institutions in Europe, Brazil, Africa, China, Australia, and Turkey.

Integral team member of a boutique investment bank and private equity firm located in Omaha, Nebraska and serving the Midwest. Managed buy side and sell side engagements for the investment bank and assisted in searching, analyzing and structuring private equity investments for McCarthy Capital, a private equity firm related to McCarthy Group, Inc. • Led or supported engagements involving mergers, businesses/business segment acquisitions or dispositions, private placement of debt or equity, and valuations for public and private companies throughout the Midwest. • Executed deal structuring, marketing, due diligence, management presentations, and negotiations. • Created pro forma financial statements through modeling, comparable company analysis, and industry research. • Augmented private equity firm team in identifying, underwriting, and structuring private equity investments. • Screened, researched, and proposed small cap publicly traded investment opportunities for investments and take-private transactions.• Developed and implemented idea generation and marketing process for prospective investment in private companies.• Prepared memoranda for investment committee detailing investment thesis and key considerations.

Served as an integral member of a lending team that structured and reviewed the region’s largest corporate banking relationships.• Conducted valuations and credit analysis on existing and prospective commercial banking clients through financial statement analysis, financial modeling, and economic research.• Assisted in structuring and financing leveraged mergers and acquisitions. • Trained junior analysts on cash flow analysis, financial modeling, and credit review.