Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of M&A Science and Executive Chairman of DealRoom: the operating standard for buy-side M&A execution.

Kison spent over a decade as an M&A advisor before building what the industry was missing. What he kept seeing was structural: M&A is disconnected by design. Confidentiality creates silence. Silence creates silos. Silos create proprietary processes. The result is a market where the sell side runs on standardized playbooks while the buy side still improvises deal after deal, team after team.

The downstream effects are predictable. Knowledge trapped in people's heads. Fragmented handoffs between diligence and integration. Speed to close celebrated while value quietly leaks after the ink dries.

Kison built DealRoom and M&A Science to change that. He developed DealPilot and the Buyer-Led M&A™ certification programs, built from primary source intelligence across 400+ interviews with the Corp Dev leaders, PE operators, and integration specialists who have actually run deals. In his role as Executive Chairman of DealRoom, he also works to bring that practitioner standard directly into the software teams use to run acquisitions.

He also hosts the M&A Science Podcast. 2.5M+ downloads and 400+ conversations with the practitioners who shape how acquisitions actually get done.