Michael A. Krafft, Ph.D. Thunderbird Mba - Mim Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco, CA, December 30, 2008 --(PR.com)-- M&A Media Group, LLC (M&AMG) is pleased to announce today Michael A. Krafft founds and launches the Global Center for Economic Enabling Environments (GCEEE) at the American Economic Association (AEA) and American Finance Association (AFA) annual summit meetings in San Francisco.✅ GCEEE’s mission is to provide a platform and create insight so policy makers and small and middle sized enterprises can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by creating an enabling environment where investments can flourish. This mission is built upon a worldview that embraces transparency, rule of law, principles of positive social change, human development, organizational & social systems, corporate financial theory, and investment & international finance best method practices. Service Focus:➤ Public Sector/NGO Strategic Planning. Development of strategic or business plan recommendations and other organizational or programmatic initiative processes for public sector/NGO clients.➤ Public Sector/NGO Communications & Public Outreach.➤ Public Sector/NGO Organizational Assessment and Change Management Implementation Services. Assessment, planning and other assistance to public sector/NGO clients to support the implementation of organizational change and/or strategic or business plan recommendations.➤ Nonprofit Capacity Building Services. Training, coaching, and consulting services to improve the performance of nonprofit organizations resulting in improved performance on contracts and grants.➤ Monitoring and Evaluation.

M&A Media Group, LLC is a boutique investment bank providing financial advisory services, offering mergers and acquisitions advisory, divestitures, management buy-outs, debt and equity financing, fairness opinions, business valuation, and leveraged recapitalization consulting services. Founded in 1999 and is based in Seattle, WA with additional offices in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY. Firm provides transaction due diligence, negotiation, and document preparation services. It caters to media, entertainment, telecommunications, and information technology sectors. ✅ March 2014 and 2015, M&A Media Group was recognized as an emerging leader, able to set benchmarks by the USIEC for its productive exercise of business ethics and company values, and success in its local business environment and industry category.✅ Specialization in cross-border M&As in growth, buyouts and late stage companies investment banking advisory services. ✅ M&AMG seeks to partner/invest in digital media, entertainment, and information technology sectors with a focus on broadcast, radio, cable, telecommunications, outdoor advertising, wireless communication, and internet services.★ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=2413344

Alameda, California, Us

AGIF Appoints Michael A. Krafft to Its Board and as TreasurerPhilip B. Auerbach, President and Founder of the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF) announces the appointment of Michael A. Krafft to the organization’s Board of Directors and as its Treasurer. Just launched officially in late August 2018, the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF; www.theAGIF.org) presents a unique, comprehensive, one-stop resource for all nonprofits to advance and enhance their missions because half of them (1.5 million in the US) fail within three to five years.The AGIF Appoints Michael A. Krafft to Its Board and as TreasurerAlameda, CA, September 27, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Philip B. Auerbach, President and Founder of the Auerbach Global-Impact Foundation (AGIF) has announced the appointment of Michael A. Krafft to the organization’s Board of Directors and as its Treasurer.“I am delighted to welcome Mr. Krafft,” Philip Auerbach said. “The range of experiences and talents that he brings to the Board will greatly accelerate progress towards our strategic goals of advancing and enhancing the missions of all nonprofits.”Michael A. Krafft is the CEO of M&A Media Group, a financial services firm. For more than 20 years, he has built deep funding relationships with leading strategic and institutional investors, private equity funds, and venture capital firms as well as the World Bank, IMF, EBRD, OECD, and OPIC. He has also served on many other US and international nonprofit boards.

Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) has been called “the gold standard in international engagement programs” by The Huffington Post. Founded in 1995, FSD reduces global poverty by providing over 300 grassroots community organizations around the world and professionals and volunteers in the U.S. with training and key resources to address pressing socio economic issues.✅ Mr. Krafft attended a vertical program, (Saybrook's Ph. D. degree) for creative change that allowed him to comprehend the breadth and depth of contemporary global challenges to a sustainable world, and to enhance the capacity to organize and coordinate successful change efforts with the main focus on the humanistic perspective concerning social systems. ✅ Acquired ability to critically evaluate existing sustainability theories and models, and to utilize currently available tools, techniques, and practices.✅ Developed skills in organizational systems design and transformation, organizational learning and development, organizational management, and leadership development to accumulate strengths required to lead organizational change, and to transform organizations and their personnel to comply with the merging global needs for sustainability. ✅ Competency in innovative organizational and social systems change, in combination of research and practice to reduce poverty rates in emerging markets, and improvement of conducting management, human resources administration, consulting, and non-profit leadership. ✅ Investigated possibilities to make contributions to a sustainable world with adherence to cultural, ethical, and psychological aspects of transformation.

Houston, Tx, Us

✅ Recruited by and accepted exclusive contract. Worked at the international organization based in Prague to assume a frontline role in new venture and corporate development project, with an emphasis on expanding into Central and Eastern Europe. ✅ Partnered with the C-level team on identifying, developing, structuring and negotiating international business transactions involving bids, acquisitions and funding.

✅ Greek Media Ventures (GMV) is holding company investing into Greek radio, television and IP. GMV’s partners are Peter Gerwe, M&AMG, McCann Erikson, Ashley and Holmes, Universal Media, EPOE Company for the Protection of Audio Visual Works, DLJ Capital, and 4 major Hollywood studios.

✅ Advised company’s senior executives and supported various business units on activities (e.g. acquisitions, divestitures, minority and control investments and joint venture formations), and forged media/communication partnerships focusing on Europe, Russia and the CIS. ✅ Executed transactions and traveled extensively worldwide. Based in Moscow and Vienna.

✅ Joined startup known as first privately-owned media company in former Soviet Union.✅ Focused on developing investor relationships and on accelerating the company’s growth. ✅ Participated with E&Y in the design and implementation of dual accounting system and trained local staff. Prepared financial documentation and led presentations, negotiations and deal structuring. ✅ Helped raise $22 million in initial funding through private placements which positioned business for successful sale to News Corporation. Based in San Francisco, Moscow and Kiev.

✅ Business adviser and informational resource to this holding company with multi-site locations in the Middle East and Africa.

✅ Senior-level sales, marketing and relationship manager challenged to drive new business, capture market share, and improve revenue and profit performance. ✅ Provided managerial oversight to business affairs (e.g., operations, sales and marketing budgets, market research/analysis, etc.). ✅ Personally developed, strengthened and managed critical relationships with major accounts and led executive level presentations and negotiations. ✅ Established and managed sales offices in three major U.S. cities, developed/executed local marketing plan, set up business processes, and recruited/hired personnel. ✅ Held local P&L responsibility.

Master Of Science - Ms, Complex Adaptive Systems Sciences

Master Of Science - Ms, Global Technology & Development (Applied International Development)

Comparative Law

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Organizational Systems - Systems Dynamics

Phd Abd, Applied Management And Decision Sciences - Finance

Mba, International Management

Ba, Marketing And International Business. Honors: Dean'S List