Conference Information
More than half of all mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures fail. It's not that the rationale behind these deals is unsound; more often, the integration process collapses.
Many of these actions could succeed if only the companies had acted before they closed the deal. What they needed -- and lacked -- was an integrated business process platform capable of unifying the assets, systems, and disparate processes of the merging entities.
View this on-demand webinar to learn why a flexible and unified IT environment is vital to post-merger integration -- and how it helps prevent common risks and pitfalls, including:
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Overestimatation of synergies
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Customer loss
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Employee attrition
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Insufficient supplier consolidation
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Poor tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs)
Speakers
Steve Minter
Chief Editor
IndustryWeek
Steve Minter is the Chief Editor of IndustryWeek. He supervises IW's award-winning editorial staff in the production of its monthly magazine, Website, e-newsletters and other e-media. He is also the group content director for Penton Media's Manufacturing & Supply Chain Group.
Before joining the staff in 2009, Minter was publisher and editorial director of EHS Today, Penton Media's publication covering the safety, health and environmental market. He has a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College.
DeAnn Brunts
Regional Managing Partner
Tatum LLC
Brunts is the Regional Managing Partner of Tatum, and leader of Tatum's Mergers and Integration practice. Over her career, Brunts has held several CFO/EVP positions in public and private companies from $10 million to $500 million in revenues. Brunts has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 14 years as a Mergers and Acquisitions Partner specializing in Initial Public Offerings and industry consolidations. She served as Transaction and Audit Partner on the carve out of Vlasic Foods from Campbell, provided M&A advisory services to Anheuser-Busch in conjunction with their acquisitions and international joint ventures/investments, and she served as advisor on numerous simultaneous IPO/merger transactions. She also served as a Partner in strategic planning in the Price Waterhouse Office of the Chairman and on the Chairman's task force to select, assess and structure merger transactions for the firm. In this capacity she worked on the merger of the U.S. and European Price Waterhouse firms and the merger of that combined firm with Coopers & Lybrand.
Brunts holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in operations and finance from The Wharton School.
Monty Gray
Director, Mergers & Acquisitions
SAP