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Beverly Hills, California, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

* Provide oversight and financial leadership for the financial reporting, projection, budgeting and other processes integral to IPC's West Region (~$200 million in revenue, ~$40 million in EBITDA).* Work with market leaders in execution of strategic initiatives, standardization of programs and processes, evaluation of new business opportunities, and aide in M&A diligence and integration processes.* Perform various financial modeling and analysis used for decision making and support.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

* Managed the due diligence and implementation planning processes for IPC’s medical practice acquisitions from signing of Letter of Intent to go-live.* Built and managed key relationships with practice group owners, administrators, IPC local operations staff and IPC corporate support departments. Established timelines and key milestones and project managed multiple parties and projects to achieve desired outcomes.* Worked with selling physician(s) to analyze historical practice information, build practice valuation models, prepare for provider implementation, negotiate deal documents, etc.* Led and completed over 10 practice acquisitions in my tenure with IPC (position eliminated following acquisition of IPC by Team Health).

New York, Ny, Us

* Evaluate the financial viability of proposed private equity and corporate acquisitions (targets range in size from small, family owned entities to large multi-national corporations). Manage domestic transactions and multi-national teams in the United States and abroad.* Analyze key business drivers of acquisition targets; including the application of US GAAP, significant financial metrics, cash flows, normalization and quality of earnings and assets, working capital, net debt, potential liabilities and risks and their impact on valuation.* Analyze financial and operational issues relevant to proposed acquisitions by interviewing senior executives and founders. Written recommendations often resulted in significant savings to clients.* Synthesize cross-functional teams across the tax, information technology, employee benefits and risk management lines of service by serving as the single point of contact for the client.* Foster new relationships for KPMG through personal and professional networks.* Mentor and deliver performance feedback to junior staff members by being selected as a PML (“People Management Leader”).* Interview potential candidates and assist with building out New York's Corporate Transaction Services team.Select Transaction Experience:* Nikkiso acquisition of Baxter's CRRT business (July 2013).* Accenture acquisition of Acquity Group (April 2013).* Arsenal Capital acquisition of IGM Resins (September 2012).* Arlon Group acquisition of Wholesome Sweeteners (April 2012) and HMR Foods (May 2012).

New York, Ny, Us

* Construct financial models and perform detailed financial analysis on Consumer, Retail and Restaurant companies. * Analyze the impact of mergers and acquisitions on EPS accretion/dilution, ownership and leverage.* Value companies using comparable company, precedent transaction, sum of the parts, leveraged buy out and discounted cash flow analyses.* Develop ideas for inclusion in client presentation materials, including the identification of potential acquisition targets, industry trends, capital structure alternatives and strategies.* Work with clients to draft SEC filing documents, internal credit approval memos, ratings agency presentations, information memorandums and investor road show presentations.* Supervise and mentor junior team members.* Duke University recruiting team member and interviewer.Select Transaction Experience:* United Natural Foods $125 million follow-on equity offering (October 2010).* Shoes for Crews sale to AEA Investors (August 2010).* Denny’s Corporation proxy fight defense (May 2010).* American Seafoods refinancing (May 2010).* Tops Markets (Upstate New York based grocery store chain), $275 million high yield bond offering (September 2009) and $85 million acquisition of Penn Traffic (January 2010).* Sears Holdings, $4 billion Asset Based Loan facility (May 2009).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Collaborated with Senior Analyst covering over 10 stocks in the Broadcasting, Media and Entertainment sectors including Sirius Satellite Radio, Lions Gate Entertainment and Playboy Enterprises.* Provided analytical support to sector Senior Analyst; including performing financial and valuation analysis, generating financial forecasts and models, analyzing risks and sector trends and drafting research reports.* Initiated meaningful interaction with management of companies under coverage, sales force, traders and institutional investors; including communication of investment conclusions.

New York, Ny, Us

* Evaluated the financial viability of over 15 proposed private equity and corporate acquisitions.* Analyzed key business drivers of acquisition targets.* Analyzed financial and operational issues relevant to proposed acquisitions by interviewing senior executives. Written recommendations often resulted in significant savings to clients.* Developed hiring and mentoring program for new employees. Recognized by senior management with an “Encore” Award for spearheading this key initiative.* Awarded “Tessie” Award for success in teamwork at KPMG National meeting.Select Transaction Experience:* Thomas H. Lee Partners investments in talent agency The Firm and FEA Merchandising.* Nautic Partners acquisition of Flavor and Fragrance group.* Penn National Gaming $2.2 billion acquisition of Argosy Gaming Company.* Ralph Lauren repurchase of footwear license from Reebok.

New York, Ny, Us

* Assistant Manager in London U.K. office from September 2001 to May 2003.* Assistant Accountant to Supervising Senior in Boston, MA office from September 1997 to September 2001.* Supervised teams across all phases of audit engagements for various publicly traded and privately held clients in the manufacturing, retail and distribution areas.* Analyzed financial statement information to determine the cause of period over period changes including margins, turnover ratios and working capital. Investigated unusual results fluctuations.* Documented and tested client financial systems and processes.* Selected to participate in US GAAP conversion projects in Amsterdam, Brussels and Zurich.* Completed carve-out audit for Watts Industries’ spin-off of CIRCOR International (1999).

Mba, Finance And Strategy

B.S., Accounting