Our Presenters

John Bender

Bender Consulting

John has more than 20 years of experience as a high-tech business transformation executive and is known as an innovative & decisive executive with a passion for winning in the market.

Donna Brighton

M&A Partners

Donna Brighton serves as a Senior Advisor with M&A Partners and is the founder and President of the Brighton Leadership Group. Donna is a business leader that specializes in getting results for her clients through change management.

Mary Chico

Willis Towers Watson

Mary Chico is a Director within Willis Towers Watson’s M&A practice. Mary focuses her consulting on leading complex global M&A, joint venture, divestiture and spin-off transactions. She has extensive experience in talent retention, culture and integration effectiveness.

Anthony Enlow

BDO

Tony has over 15 years of experience providing financial due diligence and transaction advisory services. He has worked on over 300 transactions ranging in size from $5 million to $40 billion and has assisted buyers and sellers that include private equity, public and private companies focused on transactional quality of earnings, cash flows and working capital.

Ellen Federman

Willis Towers Watson

Ellen Federman is a member of Willis Towers Watson’s Global M&A Practice and is the M&A lead for the East Division of the U.S. Ellen focuses on business and HR strategy and complex project management.

Mark Herndon

M&A Partners

Mark Herndon is President of M&A Partners and Chief Knowledge Officer of the M&A Leadership Council. He specializes in a broad range of strategic and business effectiveness initiatives and is the co-author of “The Complete Guide To Mergers and Acquisitions".

Jim Jeffries

M&A Leadership Council

Jim Jeffries is Chairman at M&A Leadership Council. Jim spent twenty-five years leading national and international consulting companies, private equity and M&A.

Kelly Karger

Willis Towers Watson

Kelly Karger is a Senior Mergers & Acquisitions Consultant with Willis Towers Watson based in the Minneapolis office.

Dean W. Kepraios

Willis Towers Watson

Dean Kepraios, Willis Towers Watson’s M&A champion for Texas, has 26 years of consulting experience with multinational organizations, he has presented on a variety of human resources-related topics, and has worked with a variety of clients from a range of industries.

Jocelyn Lammoglia

Willis Towers Watson

Jocelyn Lammoglia is a Director within Willis Towers Watson’s M&A Practice, heavily involved in supporting and developing M&A initiatives in Latin America, as well as supporting M&A cross-border assignments.

Melissa Panagides-Busch

BDO

Melissa has 15 years of experience and expertise in post-merger integration, project management and organizational change management. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) who has managed large-scale, complex and challenging projects in a variety of organizational settings.

Wendy Parkes

M&A Partners

Wendy Parkes has over 30-years’ experience as an HR Professional in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia in the financial services industry. Wendy’s passion lies with Global M&A where she has been instrumental in leading the HR side of numerous deals through due diligence, planning, integration, and optimization efforts.

Jack Prouty

M&A Leadership Council

Jack Prouty is the President of the M&A Leadership Council, Managing Partner of Prouty, Montgomery + Partners (PM+P) and a subject matter expert in the field of mergers and integrations.

James Sharpe

Willis Towers Watson

James is an M&A Consultant within the Global Services and Solutions (GSS) Group based in New York. He focuses on providing solutions, guidance and advice to US Multinationals companies on a variety of International Merger and Acquisition projects, with a focus on due diligence and integration project management roles.

John Sinkus

M&A Partners

John Sinkus leverages his more than 30 years of business systems integration, enterprise architecture, business and project thought leadership and CIO experience.

Duncan Smithson

Willis Towers Watson

Based in Chicago, Duncan is a Senior Director in Willis Towers Watson's M&A group with 25 years of M&A and international consulting experience. Duncan provides HR M&A consulting advice to a wide range of corporate and private equity firms and has extensive experience of all deal stages from pre-deal strategic planning, through due diligence, to do-by-close and post-acquisition integration.

Stephanie Snyder

M&A Partners

Stephanie Snyder is a Senior Partner at M&A Partners. Stephanie has more than 18 years' experience delivering value-creating M&A advisory services to clients.

Greg Stowe

BDO

Gregory A. Stowe is a director in the Dallas office of BDO Consulting, supporting the Valuation & Business Analytics practice. He has more than 15 years of experience valuing businesses and other business assets. He provides valuations and financial advisory services for acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, pre-transaction and valuation analysis.

Eskander Yavar

BDO

Eskander has more than 18 years of professional services experience both domestically and globally. He brings both the technical knowledge associated with complex business processes, and the “high touch” interaction style that improves the flow and timeliness of comprehensive projects.