Advisory Board

	Jim Jeffries	Chairman - M&A Leadership Council Jim is the founder and Chief Executive at M&A Partners. He has held C Level positions in multiple consulting companies and industry. Mr. Jeffries’ background includes P&L responsibility various size organizations during multiple stages of growth. He is also a CEO coach and advisor in global leadership development. His particular strength is in creating organizational vision to stimulate revenue growth while optimizing returns on invested capital. Learn More
	Jack Prouty	President - M&A Leadership Council Jack. Prouty is the managing partner of Prouty, Montgomery and Partners (PM+P) and a subject matter expert in the field of mergers and integrations. He has over thirty years of line management and consulting experience working with Fortune 1000 companies on effectively integrating acquired companies, repositioning/transforming their business for improved market success and conducting large scale change programs for bottom-line benefits. Learn More
	Mark Herndon	Chief Knowledge Officer - M&A Leadership Council Mark Herndon is President of M&A Partners LLC. He specializes in a broad range of strategic and business effectiveness initiatives. Learn More
	Alexandra Lajoux	Author – The Art of M&A Series Ms. Lajoux is renowned for her expertise in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Compliance. She is the author of the perennially best-selling “Art of M&A” series, including The Art of M&A Integration, The Art of M&A Financing and Refinancing, The Art of M&A Structuring, The Art of M&A Due Diligence and The Art of M&A Strategy. Learn More
	Christine Andrukonis	Christine Andrukonis is the SVP and North America Regional Director for Ketchum. She leads the North American team and has spent over 10 years overseeing change and transformation efforts for major companies in technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals and higher education. Learn More
	Peter Denwood	Peter Denwood is a Partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP. He focuses on global corporate restructuring projects, corporate law, international contracts, intellectual property, and other cross-border business law issues. Learn More
	Philippe Dintrans	Philippe Dintrans is a Vice President in Cognizant Business Consulting and is the North American Leader of the Strategic Services practice. Learn More
	Tyler Durham	Tyler serves as the Managing Director for Ketchum, Ketchum's change management, employee engagement and workforce communications consultancy. Tyler oversees consultants in Atlanta, Chicago, London, Munich, New York and San Francisco. Learn More
	Robert Ferris	Robert Ferris brings extensive background in management consulting, with a focus on capital formation strategies and has advised a wide variety of domestic and foreign companies on strategic corporate positioning, corporate valuation and governance compliance issues, initial public offerings and ADR flotations, as well as takeovers, proxy contests, and other crisis management situations. Learn More
	Len Gray	Len Gray is a Senior Partner and the Global Leader for Mercer's M&A Consulting Services Business. In recent years, while working in Hong Kong and New York, Len has focused primarily on human capital issues in cross border acquisitions. He has over 35 years of consulting experience. Learn More
	Joel Lessem	Joel Lessem is Chief Executive Officer of Firmex and is responsible for leading the Frimex's strategy and growth. Joel has over 18 years’ experience in successfully accelerating revenues of growth businesses. Under his leadership, Firmex is rapidly becoming a standard for sharing large volumes of highly confidential and sensitive documents for corporate transactions, litigation and compliance. Learn More
	Dr. Mitchell Marks	Dr. Mitchell Marks is an internationally recognized expert on managing corporate transitions (including mergers, acquisitions, alliances, downsizings, and restructurings), corporate culture, leadership development and executive teambuilding. He is on the faculty of the College of Business at San Francisco State University and lead JoiningForces.org, a change management consulting firm. Learn More
	Bethann Roberts	Bethann Roberts is a Partner at BestWork. Her leadership expertise is drawn from her highly successful career of increasing executive leadership responsibility as GE Division CEO and multi-national financial institutions including HSBC. Learn More
	Doug Schrock	Doug Schrock is a partner at Crowe Horwath. He has led many projects to solve a variety of complex and critical initiatives in over 20 years of consulting experience. These projects have primarily addressed areas such as technology and business strategy, IT and operational due diligence, merger Learn More
	Ken Smith	Ken Smith is a professor of business and a strategy consultant. He has practiced as a strategy consultant for 25 years, beginning with McKinsey & Company and later with SECOR Consulting, Canada’s leading international strategy consultancy, where he has been Managing Partner and Chair of the Board. He has recently been appointed Associate Dean of Executive Education at the University of Guelph and continues consulting part-time. Learn More