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Christina Ungaro, CFA, is a corporate development and M&A advisor and Advisory Board member at DealNexa. She previously served as Chief Global Mergers & Acquisitions Officer at Qualfon, where she led global inorganic growth strategy, and has held senior corporate development roles at Wind River, JLL, and IBM. Her background spans 25+ years across global M&A, partnerships, divestitures, minority investments, and strategic growth initiatives.
Corporate development is more than just doing M&A. Sometimes, acquiring a company isn't the best way to achieve the organization's growth strategy. This episode will discuss growing beyond M&A with Christina Ungaro, former VP, Head of Corporate Development at Wind River.
On this episode of M&A Science, Kison interviews Christina Ungaro, former Head of Corporate Development at JLL. Together they discuss how companies should structure talent-focused acquisitions, breaking down exactly what that kind of transaction requires and entails, the necessary diligence, and how to make these deals successful.