Tom May Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• A full-service commercial and multi-family real estate firm with a 50 year tradition of delivering Best-In-Class Property Management and Brokerage solutions.• One of the Midwest region’s most active shopping center and single-tenant retail investment transaction advisors having completed $7 billion in disposition projects.• Founder of the Private-Asset group, closing over $250 million in transactions.• Leveraged expertise in advising a wide array of private investors, developers, REIT’s, and other institutional investors on investment strategy, valuation, and value creation initiatives.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

• Independent Consultancy in Strategic & Investment Advisory.• Acted as the primary advisor to a private investment group in the evaluation of multiple potential opportunities providing business plan assessment, competitive analysis, and transactional advisory services. • Provided an array of advisory services to a dynamic electronic payment start-up including creating an innovative investment/acquisition alternative that facilitated a partnership with a strong strategic partner, and successfully coordinating the buy-out of a founding partner.• Facilitated a retail start-up’s movement from concept to reality in only nine months, providing marketing, operational, and competitive guidance.

Mclean, Virginia

Manager, Corporate Development • Coordinated diverse cross-functional teams in the execution of numerous transactions including performance of financial and strategic analysis, due diligence, transaction structuring, and negotiation. Engagements ranged in size from medium cap ($300 million - $1 billion) acquisitions/mergers to small cap (< $10 million) start-up investments.• Co-led wireline and wireless telecommunications transactional work, including the successful structuring, negotiation, and closing of a joint-venture relationship with the largest PCS network operator in America, as well as the disposition of the analog and digital customer bases.• Researched, developed, and presented to senior management strategic business cases exploring expansion into adjacent consumer/small business credit sectors including small ticket leasing, manufactured housing, and motorized recreational vehicles. Manager, Business Development, America One Communications• Managed cross-functional project teams in a series of diverse assignments ranging from analog wireless account acquisition to pre-paid wireless product development. • Led business development activity surrounding the initial roll-out and subsequent shutdown of the Rate Shark long-distance device, including the ensuing sale of the customer base, inventory, and resolution of future manufacturing commitments.

Louisville, Kentucky

Director of Strategic Initiatives• Created an innovative competitive analysis methodology combining both quantitative and qualitative factors with a focus on the collection of “real-time” field feedback, resulting in significant improvements in the quality, depth, and timeliness of data presented to senior management.• Developed sophisticated interactive financial models that were utilized to illustrate the impact of multiple proposed cost-cutting scenarios ($25 to $30 million) on overall performance. Senior Strategic Planning Analyst, Corporate • Created an innovative quantitative screening framework that was used to identify & assess promising growth opportunities in the Financial Services sector.• Actively contributed to numerous corporate initiatives, including review of strategic plans, evaluation of reengineering efforts, and technology assessment.Product Manager, Home Service Division• Realized a 122% improvement in sales over comparable quarters by successfully revitalizing agent and customer interest in the product.• Successfully mediated the re-negotiation of a marketing joint venture by clearly demonstrating the economic benefits of the arrangement to all parties involved.

Chicago, Illinois

• Supervised, trained, and evaluated a professional staff of up to twelve associates in the performance of attest engagements varying in size from small closely held entities to large publicly traded companies including banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, unit investment trusts, and broker dealers. • Actively participated in numerous non-attest engagements including litigation, bankruptcy, and productivity consulting.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Business Policy

Activities and Societies: Graduated with Honors

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Emphasis In Finance And Accountancy

Activities and Societies: Honorary National Accounting and Music Fraternities