Ryan Abney Email & Phone Number

Natural leader driven to achieve excellence while building coalitions and improving others. Dependable and trustworthy senior finance professional with diverse and highly valuable experience earned with strong work ethic and never-quit attitude. Utilizes a logical and detailed approach to accomplish overall strategic objective. Especially familiar with adapting to and navigating challenging situations to create positive outcomes from adversity. Hands-on, pragmatic, and instinctive management style combines results-driven practicality and mutual respect to inspire team-oriented environment.• Value Creation: Participated in over 40 equity and debt financings, 11 M&A engagements, and 4 strategic mandates, including raising in excess of $4.5 billion of new capital for public and private companies; Directly led efforts to raise over $1.3 billion of new funding• Strategic Vision: Engineered, negotiated and closed highly accretive acquisition of direct competitor, valued at ~$59 million for only $22 million through a 363 bankruptcy auction, outlining path to growth and scale through access to new markets, customers and service capabilities• Change Management: Executed multi-transaction realignment of capital structure with multiple debt holders, significantly reducing leverage and interest expense through exchange of $138 million of long-term bonds via two separate out-of-court restructurings, while enhancing liquidity profile by issuing new $30 million term loan and replacing maturing ABL with new $30 million credit facility• Transformative Leadership: Built entire Investor Relations department from the ground up and successfully transformed investor base from highly concentrated insider holdings to largely institutional-based investors while increasing daily trading volume by over 400%

Listed skills include Investor Relations, Mergers And Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance, and 51 others.

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  University Of St. Thomas (Tx)

  Accounting And Finance