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M&A Science
M&A Science, hosted by Kison Patel (Founder & CEO of DealRoom), is your go-to podcast for mastering the art of mergers and acquisitions. Each week, Kison and his expert guests from leading brands like Xerox, FastLap, and Cisco dig deep into real-world M&A strategies, offering actionable insights to...
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M&A Integration Technology: What Actually Works
Jim Buckley, VP M&A Integration at Coursera | Todd Manley, VP of Corp Dev Integration at Intel | Carey Pugh is Sr. Director, M&A Corporate Integration...
Partner Before You Buy: The Pre-Acquisition Strategy Corp Dev Teams Skip
Tomer Stavitsky is SVP and Chief Corporate Development Officer at Omnicell (NASDAQ: OMCL)
Corp dev teams treat M&A and partnerships as separate...
How M&A Turns a Chemical Company Into a Tech Business
Chandradev Mehta, SVP Strategy and Business Development at Hexion Inc.
Chandradev Mehta, SVP Strategy and Business Development at Hexion Inc., b...
CPG Exit Strategy: How to Build a Consumer Brand Strategics Will Acquire | Keith Levy Part 2
Keith Levy, Operating Partner at Sonoma Brands Capital
Most consumer brand founders think about exit as an event. Keith Levy thinks about it as...
CPG Due Diligence: The Operator Framework Behind a $800M Exit | Keith Levy Part 1
Keith Levy, Operating Partner at Sonoma Brands Capital
Keith Levy backed an exit of just under $1B and a $400M exit using the same five-pillar...
400 Acquisitions and a Failed Process: What Happens When You Don't Integrate
Matt James, EVP, CFO & Chief Acquisition Officer at Oakbridge Insurance
Roll-up platforms that skipped real integration are getting exposed when...
M&A Roll-Up Playbook: The IRR Framework That Replaced Budgets at Zayo | Dan Caruso (Part 2)
Dan Caruso, Managing Director, Caruso Ventures; Founding CEO of Zayo Group
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Dan Caruso, founder and forme...
M&A Roll-Up Playbook: How Zayo Did 45 Acquisitions and Returned 8.5x | Dan Caruso (Part 1)
Dan Caruso, Managing Director, Caruso Ventures; Founding CEO of Zayo Group
Dan Caruso built Zayo from a startup into a $14B+ bandwidth infrastru...
Cross-Border M&A: Doing Deals in Latin America
Rodrigo Dominguez Sotomayor, Partner at White & Case LLP
Most US buyers approach Latin America M&A the same way they do a domestic deal — optimi...
Partnering Before Purchasing: How Booz Allen Wins Proprietary Deals Early
Booz Allen Hamilton didn't build one of the most active acquisition programs in federal tech by waiting for banker inbounds. They built it by showin...
Cultural Fit Over EBITDA: How Salas O'Brien Built a 30-Merger Program Without a Single Failure
Nathan Rust, Senior VP of Corporate Development, Salas O'Brien
Salas O'Brien has completed 30+ mergers with a 100% success rate and 93% cumulati...
Cross-Border M&A: How to Do Deals in Italy with Mauro Sambati and Donato Romano
Mauro Sambati, Partner – Gianni & Origoni
Donato Romano, Partner – Gianni & Origoni
Italy remains one of Europe's most attractive m...
Four Questions That Defined a $1 Billion Deal with Robert Lovegrove
President & CEO of The ChemQuest Group. Previously, as VP of Corporate Strategy at Milliken & Company
When it comes to billion-dollar dea...
Stop Falling in Love with the Deal: Guardrails for High-Volume Acquisitions with Birgitta and Lars Elfversson
Birgitta Elfversson, Non-executive director at Netlight Consulting AB
Lars Elfversson, VP/Co-Founder, Netlight Consulting AB
In fragmented...
The Next Chapter After 400 Episodes
No guest today. No interview. Just Kison talking directly to you.
After 400 episodes and nearly 100 founding members, Kison wanted to give you a...
Integration Focused M&A: Why Execution Should Inform Strategy Before You Sign Part 2 with Ciprian Stan
Too many deals fail not because the strategy was wrong, but because execution realities surfaced too late.
Ciprian Stan, M&A Integration Manager...
Integration Focused M&A: Why Execution Should Inform Strategy Before You Sign
Most M&A deals fail because integration was "something to figure out later". By the time execution realities, cultural risks, and people impacts surfa...
How Experienced Buyers Actually Make M&A Work with Carlos Cesta
M&A isn't just about closing deals, it's about making the deal actually work.
Carlos Cesta, M&A advisor and founder of his own boutique advisor...
A Founder's Guide to Lean M&A Strategy with Christian Hassold
Christian Hassold, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Partnerships at Wpromote x Giant Spoon
Christian has been on bot...
How Integration Debt, Cultural Friction, and Communication Failures Kill M&A Deals
Donara Jaghinyan, returns for Part 2 of our conversation on what actually breaks integrations after the deal closes. This episode tackles the messy re...
Why Integrations Break with Donara Jaghinyan
Donara joins us to pull back the curtain on why integrations break—and what it actually takes to make them work. With deep experience across healthcar...
Building Your M&A Reputation: Why Relationships Beat Transactions Every Time with Andrew Cohen
Andy Cohen, Vice President of Corporate Development at F5
Andy has built a career that proves M&A is fundamentally about relationships,...
My Daughter Interviews Me About M&A | Holiday Special Episode with Shyla Patel
In this special father-daughter episode, My daughter interviews me on my new book on Buyer-Led M&A™. We break down the framework built from over 400 p...
How to Score Culture Fit in M&A with Sharon Van Zeeland
Sharon Van Zeeland, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Rockwell Automation
Sharon brings a unique engineer's persp...
Making M&A Boring (And Why That's a Good Thing) with Leon Brujis
Leon Brujis, Partner and Co-Head of U.S. at 65 Equity Partners
Leon Brujis shares how his firm is redefining private equity through non-control...
Integration Starts with Hiring, Not the Deal with Brandon Batt
Brandon Batt – Chief People and Transformation Officer at Quadient
Brandon Batt joins us to discuss how successful M&A integration starts long b...
Strategic M&A Framework: IFS's Acquisition Playbook with Rachel Hindley
Rachel oversees transformative acquisitions for the global leader in industrial AI and enterprise software. In this episode, Rachel shares how IFS na...
Mastering Carve-Out Transactions with Keith Crawford
Keith Crawford, Global Head of Corporate Development and M&A at State Street Corporation, brings over 20 years of expertise executing some of the most...
Integration-Led M&A: Cisco's Approach to Deal Success Part 2 with Johanna Jaakola and Tesia Hostetler
Tesia Hostetler – Leader, Acquisition Integration Practice, Cisco
Johanna Jaakola, Integration Lead on Cisco's Corporate Development Int...
Integration-Led Diligence: Cisco's M&A Approach with Johanna Jaakola & Tesia Hostetle
Johanna Jaakola – Integration Lead, Corporate Development Integration Team, Cisco
Tesia Hostetler – Leader, Acquisition Integration Practice, Ci...
When Integration Beats Roll-Ups with Tim Hall
Tim brings 29 years of private equity experience to this conversation about what actually works in buy-and-build strategies. After launching Brenton P...
Buyer-Led M&A™ Strategy at Snowflake with Stefan WIlliams
Stefan Williams, Vice President of Corporate Development and Snowflake Ventures at Snowflake, leads the company's acquisition strategy, corporate vent...
Corporate Development Strategy: Notion's M&A Approach with Hilary Shirazi
Hilary Shirazi, Head of Corporate Development at Notion, brings over a decade of M&A experience from LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Zendesk to discuss build...
How Corporate Venture Capital 2.0 is Reshaping M&A with Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller, Senior Director of Corporate Development at Oshkosh Corporation, brings over 24 years of M&A experience spanning investment banking,...
M&A Integration Reality: Deal Economics vs Human Dynamics with Nicole Markowski
Nicole Markowski - Former Director of Business Integration and Operations, Wipfli
Join Nicole as she shares unvarnished truths from managing 30+...
Strategic M&A at Scale: Insight Partners' Buyer-Led Approach with Byron Lichtenstein
Byron Lichtenstein, Managing Director at Insight Partners
Byron brings over a decade of experience scaling M&A operations across one of...
Think Like a Buyer: Valuation & Deal Structuring with Javier Enrile
Javier Enrile, Managing Director of M&A at TIAA
In this episode, he breaks down the art and science of thinking like a strategic buyer—f...
Founder Exit Strategy: Xavier Gury on M&A Deal Terms vs Valuation
Xavier Gury, Founding Partner at Wind
Xavier Gury, founding partner at Wind venture capital firm, brings a unique triple perspective to...
M&A Execution: Strategy from Skadden Expert Arash Attar
Arash Attar-Rezvani - M&A Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
In part two of this masterclass conversation, Arash...
Cross-Border M&A Strategy: Navigating Complex International Deals with Arash Attar-Rezvani
Arash Attar-Rezvani, M&A Partner at Skadden based in Paris, brings over two decades of cross-border M&A strategy experience to this in-depth conversat...