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Starting Up Your Corporate Development Function
Executing acquisitions without a dedicated function is highly inefficient and results in failed deals. Companies should not purely rely on inbound opportunities, and need strategic teams dedicated to sourcing deals. In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Veena Ramaswamy, former Head of Corporate Development at Lemonade, discusses how to create a corporate development function.
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Veena Ramaswamy, former Head of Corporate Development at Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) 

Executing acquisitions without a dedicated function is highly inefficient and results in failed deals. Companies should not purely rely on inbound opportunities, and need strategic teams dedicated to sourcing deals. 

In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Veena Ramaswamy, former Head of Corporate Development at Lemonade, discusses how to create a corporate development function.

Things you will learn:

  • When to start building the Corporate Development function
  • Benefits of a Corporate Development function
  • Process of building the M&A function
  • Establishing the M&A process
  • Hiring the M&A team

Veena Ramaswamy

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