Jim Buckley is VP of Strategy, Planning, and Operations at Omnissa, with deep M&A integration experience across enterprise technology. He previously served as VP of M&A Integration at VMware, where he led major integrations including Pivotal and Carbon Black, and has also held roles at Microsoft, PayPal, and Mentor Graphics. He has appeared on M&A Science to discuss integration-led diligence, keeping integration plans simple, and measuring success after close.
Integration planning is one of the most important aspects of M&A pre-close. Planning after the fact will cause massive delays and value leaks for the entire deal. It is why the integration team must be involved during the due diligence phase. In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, we will talk about how to create an executable integration plan during the diligence, featuring Jim Buckley, former Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration at VMware.
While some companies bring the integration team in the diligence process, some take it even further. In this interview, Jim Buckley, former Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration at VMware, talks about how to run an integration-led confirmatory diligence process.
M&A practitioners love to go into details. And while that could be beneficial, it doesn’t often help with team alignment. According to Jim Buckley, former Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration at VMware, keeping integration simple is the real key to success.
We all know that integration can make or break the deal. In this interview, Jim Buckley, former Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration at VMware, talks about how to succeed in M&A integration and measure that success.
