Michael P. Bernard
Managing Director
Senior executive with substantial financial and managerial experience gained from top-level positions with public and private hyper-growth companies ranging in size from $2 million to $750 million in revenues. Over 20 years successfully guiding companies and managing people, processes and a variety of business activities with thoughtful executive leadership through challenging economic environments.
An accomplished, versatile professional offering a unique blend of operating, financial and transaction experience, excellent leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills along with a proven track record of team oriented performance as demonstrated by successful positions with multiple companies serving a variety of industries including technology, distribution, healthcare, staffing and automotive.
• Successfully closed over 30 transactions aggregating over $1 billion including acquisitions, divestitures and financings through IPO’s, secondaries, bank debt, and venture capital including financial modeling, business plan development, and road shows.
• Completed multiple major projects related to complex information systems implementations.
• Hands on manager responsible for work groups ranging in size from 2 to 40 associates and have initiated and implemented restructurings, rationalizations, and exit strategies.
• Financial reporting, SEC compliance, budgeting, cash management, strategic planning, tax and contract management including managing global risk programs with premiums exceeding $4 million covering insured values of more than $700 million.
Specialties: Mergers & acquisitions, Divestments and exit strategy execution, IPO’s, venture capital, bank financings, Risk Management, Financial modeling, Financial analysis, Daily metric reporting, Budgeting and Forecasting, Contract Negotiations, Management reporting, Bank ready/Investor ready financial reporting, Bank/Investor relations, Process improvement, SEC reporting and compliance.