People profiles
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