Michael Wilkerson Email and Phone Number

With three decades of experience as a strategic and financial advisor, private equity principal, public company CEO, emerging markets investor, and chairman or director of corporate boards, Mr. Wilkerson brings to bear a breadth of expertise ranging from strategy, M&A, capital raising, capital deployment, financial restructurings and turnarounds, business repositioning, negotiation strategy, valuations, and inflation navigation. Mr. Wilkerson has experience in several industries and across multiple geographies including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.Mr. Wilkerson has advised some of the world’s largest public and private companies. Notable clients included Ally Financial (f/k/a GMAC Financial), Banco Santander, Bear Stearns, Callaway Golf, Capmark Financial, Groupe Danone, Dollar General, Fannie Mae, General Signal, Gillette, InBev, Kao, Limited Brands, London Stock Exchange, L’Oréal, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nike, NYSE Euronext, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Richemont, and Whirlpool/Maytag, among others.Mr. Wilkerson served as Chief Executive Officer of publicly listed Fairfax Africa and as the Executive Vice Chairman of its successor company, Helios Fairfax Partners, the world’s largest Africa focused private investment firm. Prior to his role with Fairfax Africa, Mr. Wilkerson was Managing Partner of AgriGroupe Limited, a private investment firm which he co-founded with a core investment thesis: Food and Energy Security for the African Century.Previously, Mr. Wilkerson served as Global Co-Head of the Consumer, Food & Retail Group and as a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Lazard, one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. Mr. Wilkerson was also a Managing Director at Citigroup, where he led the Financial Institutions M&A effort in New York.Mr. Wilkerson is the author of Why America Matters: The Case for a New Exceptionalism (2022) and Stormwall: Observations on America in Peril (2020). He is a frequent contributor to prominent media outlets on topics including economics, finance, markets, and foreign affairs. Mr. Wilkerson is chairman of the board of charity: water, a renowned nonprofit organization leading the way to solve the global water crisis. Mr. Wilkerson was a corporate term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and was named as one of the “40 under 40” in investment banking and private equity.Mr. Wilkerson holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, and a BS summa cum laude from Oral Roberts University.