M&A Science Alumni Network

Learn more about the backgrounds and experiences of the M&A Science podcast speakers.

Jeremie Bacon

CEO, and co-founder of Chicago-based Synap Software Labs

John Orbe

Associate General Counsel - M&A at Emerson

Ajit Sane

Director IT M&A at Agilent Technologies

Amy Gannaway

Vice President, Global Compensation, Benefits and HRIS at VMware

Andrew Gratz

Assoicate General Counsel

Ben Sutton

Senior Manager - Corporate Development at NCR Corporation

Ben de Haldevang

Partner at The Agile Gorilla

Bill Clarkin

VP, Head of Data & Analytics at Fiserv

Brett Shawn

Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Warburg Pincus LLC

Brian Buchert

Vice President, Corporate Strategy and M&A at Church & Dwight

Briana Elkington

Sr. Manager, M&A Integration Management Office at Community Psychiatry

Carlos Cesta

Vice President Corporate Development at Presidio

Christian von Bogdandy

Practice Director at Slalom

Christina Amiry

Head of M&A Strategic Operations at Atlassian

Christina Ungaro

Head of Corporate Development, JLL Americas

Clayton Stanley

Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at AmeriVet Veterinary Partners

Cole Breidenbach

Head of M&A Integration, Corporate Development and Director, Business Value Consulting at Okta

Dan Menge

Sr Director/Head of M&A Integration at Xilinx

David Boyd

Partner at The Agile Gorilla, Director of Boyd + Associates

Dawn White

Manager of M&A Center of Excellence - Corporate Development, Program Manager / Change Management Lead (Temporary Special Assignment) at Corning Incorporated

Dev Sirur

Director, M&A Integration, Mergers and Acquisitions at Intel

Devorah Bertucci

Director Corporate Development at Microsoft

Dr. Karl-Michael Popp

Senior Director Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development at SAP

Erik Levy

DMGT Group Head Corporate Development and M&A

Galina Wolinetz

Managing Director at Virtas Partners

Howard Rosen

Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer at Open Text

Ivan Golubic

Vice President Finance - Corporate Business Development (M&A) at The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

Jai Sundararaman

Vice President - Business Transformation at IPG - Intertape Polymer Group

James Harris

Principal, Corporate Development Integration at Google

James Payne

Principal Consultant at Merger Integration Consulting LLC

Javid Moosaji

M&A Sales Integration Strategy at PayPal

Jeff Baker

EVP Mergers & Acquisitions, at Incomm

Jeff Desroches

Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development at VAT GROUP

Jeremy Segal

Senior Vice President Corporate Development at Progress

Jerry Will

Vice President, Corporate Development at 3M

Jillian Kaebel-Sisk

HR - Global Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Manager at Caterpillar Inc

Jim Ackerman

VP of Corporate Development at Flex

Johanna Tseng

Corporate Development, M&A Integration at Coinbase

John DeRusso

Director of Acquisition Integration at Cisco

John Morada

Senior Director, M&A Integration at ICE Mortgage Technology

Jonathan Shiery

Director at Guidehouse

Jordan Lampos

Director specializing in healthcare M&A at Duff & Phelps

Josh Beggs

Field CTO at Dell Technologies

Josh Olson

Head of Experience Solutions Sales - Americas at VMware

Judah Karkowsky

SVP Corporate & Business Development at Cengage

Justin Goldman

VP Finance at Place Exchange

Karen Isely

Merger & Acquisition Expert I M&A Leadership and Culture Integration Advisor I Researcher I Author I Speaker

Kash Ahuja

Senior Program Manager, M&A Integration at Google

Keith Dunbar

Founder & CEO at FedLearn, Managing Partner at JKD Talent Solutions

Kelly Haggerty

Founder of Nearco Transaction Advisors, LLC

Kevin Robbins

Serial entrepreneur and federal market SME

Kim Jones

SR. HR M&A Manager and SR. HR Manager XBOX at Microsoft

Kimberly Baird

Corporate Development Integration Lead at Cisco

Kison Patel

CEO and Founder of DealRoom, CEO and Founder Agile M&A, Executive Producer of M&A Science

Klint Kendrick

Former HR M&A Leader at Oracle & Boeing and Chair of the HR M&A Roundtable

Larry Forman

Senior Manager at Deloitte

Matt Arsenault

VP of Corporate Development at Jamf

Matt Gambs

Senior Vice President at Wintrust Financial

Michael Frankel

SVP, Managing Director at Deloitte

Michael Palumbo

Director of Corporate Development at Halo Branded Solutions

Mike Moyer

Neal McNamara

Co-Founder, Virtas Partners

Nichelle Maynard-Elliott

Corporate M&A Executive, Board Member at Element Solutions Inc.

Nitin Kumar

Former CEO of Appnomic, Board Member at FortifID, Inc, and SmartBeings Inc

PJ Patel

Co-CEO & Senior Managing Director at Valuation Research Corporation (VRC)

Paul Tennola

Paul Weiskopf

Board Director and Independent Business Advisor for Public and Private Companies

Philip Pratt

Director, Acquisition Integration at Corning Incorporated

Richard Kasperowski

Instructor at Harvard University, Author | Keynote Speaker | Teacher | Certified Agile Team Building™

Ritch Schaafsma

Vice President of Corporate Development, Global Mergers and Acquisitions at General Motors China

Russ Hartz

VP of Corporate Development at ANSYS, Inc.

Sachin Kumar

Senior Director - Mergers & Acquisitions, People Practices (Global) at Conduent

Sallie J. Cunningham

HR Executive, Integration Leader at Cytiva (formerly GE Life Sciences)

Scott Hile

Senior Director - Corporate Development at Enviva

Scott Kaeser

Owner / Head Of Corporate Development at First Choice Dental Lab

Sean Alford

SVP, Corporate Development at J2 Global

Sean Corcoran

SVP of Corporate Development & M&A at Neustar, Inc.

Steve Elliott

Head of Jira Align at Atlassian

Toby Tester

Senior Consultant & Project Manager at BTD

Tracy Levine

Chairman, CEO, Keynote Speaker, Corporate Culture Due Diligence, Executive Coach at Advantage Talent Inc.

Valeria Strappa

Managing Director - Healthcare Integration Leader at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Zoe Bogan

Market Accelerator to Entrepreneurs at KPMG