Announcements09.20.10
Riveron expands consulting staff as mergers and acquisitions gain momentum
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Dallas, November 12, 2010 - In response to increasing merger and acquisition activity in North Texas and growing demand for the firm’s services, Riveron Consulting (www.riveronconsulting.com) has added three new professionals to its consulting staff. William Davenport joins the firm as a director, Nikki Lewis was named a manager and Ryan Kimbro has assumed the duties of an associate. Riveron is a financial consulting firm serving private equity funds and companies that are growing through strategic acquisitions.
“As the local and regional economy has regained its footing, we’ve seen a great deal of pent up demand for mergers and acquisitions,” said Landon Smith, managing partner of Riveron. “By expanding our staff with high-caliber professionals like these three individuals, Riveron will be able to continue offering the top quality financial consulting services that our clients have come to expect. As the recovery continues, capital markets understand the landscape, and federal tax laws take shape, we anticipate that the number of deals will accelerate even further. When that happens, we will be ready.”
Davenport will be a director in Riveron’s rapidly growing strategic planning and analysis (SP&A) practice, where he will provide clients with strategic planning, complex business modeling, financial analysis, business plan development and review, forecasting and budgeting, and integration services. He previously served as the senior vice president for finance at Brinker International. He began his career with KPMG in its audit practice. He is a CPA and a graduate of Texas A&M University.
As a manager, Lewis will deliver due diligence and post-transaction services at Riveron. Her career began with Lucent Technologies where she served as a mergers and acquisitions consultant, divisional controller and divisional chief financial officer. Most recently, she worked as a private equity fund controller. She has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Rutgers University and a master’s in accounting from Babson College. She is a CPA.
Kimbro comes to Riveron from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a senior associate providing audit services in complex accounting areas such as derivative financial instruments and purchase accounting. He also performed various training and coaching functions for PWC during his tenure with the firm. He recently completed his course work toward a master’s in accountancy and all of the CPA eligibility requirements at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
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