Scott Krasner

Professional Background

Over 25 years experience in planning and execution of strategic change initiatives, including M&A due diligence, merger integration, project portfolio management, strategic initiative alignment, and business metrics and reporting
Experience professional services executive as principal and senior manager with IBM Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, and PriceWaterhouse
Scott’s also served as an interim executive as Director of Planning for a top US brokerage firm, and an executive responsible for strategy and marketing with a high growth technology integration and services firm
B.A. from Colby College; M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business

M&A Skills & Expertise

Extensive experience assisting executives to plan, implement, and measure the success of mergers and strategic transactions
Led and managed merger/restructuring engagements in banking, retail securities, and diversified manufacturing clients
Developed cross-functional integration processes to better align organizational decision-making and initiative portfolios to improve employee/customer experience
Wrote merger integration “playbook” for leading US bank to guide activities, timing, governance, decision points, and IMO tools.
Created business metric scorecards to evaluate achievement of merger-related objectives and business performance
Served as interim executive responsible for merger integration and enterprise business planning functions

Project Highlights

Banking: PNC Financial, Wachovia, Bank of Montreal, Chemical Bank, Fidelity Bank, Bank of New England
Retail Securities: PNC Investments, Wachovia Securities, Prudential Securities, Freddie Mac
Insurance: New York Life, BCBS New Jersey, BCBS Florida
Diversified Industries: John Crane, AT&T, Viacom, LTV Corporation, LJ Hooker
Professional Services: Osprey Systems, ADSFS, CapTech Ventures, Blue Sky Ventures
Thought Leadership – Co-authored “Knowledge Management – The Bedrock of Corporate Strategy” for International Society for Performance Improvement
Serve as mentor for non-profit organizations in conjunction with Social Venture Partners