Our Presenters

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.

Mark Dickelman brings over 20 years of executive leadership in information technology, payments and financial services. Mark brings a wealth of hands-on expertise for a range of M&A scenarios.

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.

Jim Jeffries has been leading national and international consulting companies, private equity and M&A (mergers and acquisitions) for 30 years. During that time, he completed three corporate turnarounds. He is the founder of the M&A Leadership Council, which is a global organization delivering best practice training to the M&A community.

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.

Donald Nagle is a strategic change and transformation consultant with over 20 years of experience serving global clients. He has developed and implemented major change initiatives that span the value chain and cover all major functions. He focuses on business-driven change, transition management, and organizational development.

Kevin Roberts has over 25 years of experience growing middle-market sized businesses as a principal investor and as a strategic advisor.  Kevin is Managing Director of Fidelitas Capital Partners, a private equity sponsor focused on buyouts and equity recapitalizations of established lower middle-market sized companies.

Wendy Selley is a passionate M&A professional, bringing over 12 years of experience leading global M&A engagements, driving successful acquisitions/integrations, equity investments, JVs, partnerships, and divestitures including complicated buy and sell-side carve-outs.

James Sharpe 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 S. Sinkus leverages his more than 30 years of business systems integration, enterprise architecture, business analytics, business and project thought leadership and CIO experience to successfully advise clients regarding their M&A business and technology strategies, designs and transactional integrations.