Managing Director
Eton & Stallion Partners Capital
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
Eton & Stallion is an integrated, on-demand and nimble platform offering strategy consulting, capital formation, M&A and private to public structured products to family offices, private equity funds and lower to middle-market firms.
Advised 153 firms on transactions, business growth and strategy consulting including investment quality business plan development, capital formation, brand management, competitive positioning, sales/channel expansion, partnership development and post‐merger integration for the Management Development program.
> Industries: information technology, enterprise software/hardware, business services, automotive, fashion,
consumer brands, healthcare, biosciences, retail, publishing, construction and manufacturing
> Engagements take 3 months each, with 15+ running in parallel and managing up to 5 consultants at a time, e.g.
> 64% revenue expansion for a reputable grocery chain
> 40% increase in B2B sales force of a professional services company
> Leading a printing newspaper expand to digital distribution
> 30%+ process/productivity improvement through an optimized workflow for a manufacturing company
Actively driving the PE/family office’s industry and size agnostic equity/debt investments from sourcing to execution including due diligence, contract negotiation, capital formation, private placement, SEC compliant board/executive compensation, audit/governance/compensation board committee composition and placement, CFO placement, D&O insurance, IR/PR, reverse merger and audits across the internal/external professional resources. Developed 90‐day rollout plan, strategic business plan, bridge analysis, acquisition roadmap and product positioning.
> Acquisition platform and synergistic rollup of an exotic automotive transaction public offering at $1+ billion top line
> Delivered to underwriting a management and IP strong Bifurcation Stent medical device with $40 million post‐money
> Delivered to underwriting an institution‐backed Bone Rejuvenation venture with $32 million post‐money valuation
> Assisted financing syndication of a Harrah’s Casino buyout at $132 million with KPMG (prelim due diligence)
> Sourced a portfolio of 3 growth PE deals in agriculture and 2 major FDA‐approved investments in medical device
and Intellectual Property, Product Development Manager
• Competitive positioning, transaction and strategy formation, due diligence and post-merger integration on the acquisition of Aster Data for $263 million in 2011 (Big data, analytics distributed platform)
• Strategic acquisition, integration and positioning of Kickfire for $3+ million in 2010
• Drove Teradata's advanced analytics and R strategy, incl. field sales relationship (RBC) and product partnerships
• Drove Teradata's patent portfolio of 1, 300+ patents, rolled out corporate patent workflow, 2 major IP licensing deals
• Led and 3• grew an international team of 24 senior software engineers across US, China and India
• Drove PepsiCo account Beta team to successful site delivery with $20+ million in annual revenues
• Owned the concept, detailed scoping and delivery of 28 cross-functional and highly complex software functionalities
• Achieved 20% faster software delivery through untangling code reviews, design dependencies, nightly builds/tests
• Drove 5 software development teams to the prestigious corporate R&D awards
• Developed 4 patent-pending inventions on text search and indexing techniques
Instructor and Graduate Researcher:
> Johns Hopkins University (Center for Talented Youth)
> University of California Santa Barbara (College of Engineering)
> Upward Bound, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Joint Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School executive programs in corporate strategy, marketplace and government dynamics, negotiation, differential pricing, and strategic intellectual property (IP) licensing.
International Experience: 1) University of Cape Town, South Africa 2) HEC Business School, Paris 3) IESE Business School, Madrid
Summa cum laude, Full scholarship Dissertation: Efficient pattern matching algorithms in textual and genomic databases.
Merit scholarship award