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Danny A. Davis

MBA Bsc (Hons) DipM MCIM MCMI Cmgr Chartered Marketer

M&A integration expert, author and international sportsman (17th March 1972 – date)

He is a guest speaker at a number of the world’s top business schools on strategy and M&A, having spoken at London Business School for a decade, Ashridge, Brunel and is a Programme Director M&A at Henley Business School. As well as speaking, chairing and sitting on panels at numerous international conferences, from M&A integration to business transformation.

He has written articles for Henley Business School, British Computer Society, CFO Europe, Developing HR Strategy, and had a 3 page profile written on him by CIMA magazine for leaders. His book “My book: M&A Integration – How to do it: planning and delivering M&A integration for business success” has been noted as a high level practical guide through Post merger integration for leaders. He is a partner at DD Consulting, when he worked on both small and large deals; from a $16bn deal through to a £20mn. His contributions have ranged from 2 days overview seminars on integration planning through to a 3 year $6bn deal consolidating the European parts of two FTSE 100 companies, across 30 countries, 250 business units and 26 functions.

Danny A.Davis was the youngest ever trustee on the board of the Chartered Management Institute 2006 – 2009, chaired their marketing and policy committee 2008 - 09 and sat on their “Experts Panel” from 2012 to date. He also helps charities with strategy through the Cranfield trust, which enables charities to gain access to free consultancy.

He joined the England water polo squad at the age of 16 and remained there for a decade, playing for the junior and men’s teams. He learnt to play at school (City of London), and joined the Hammersmith penguin water polo club at 15 playing Division 1 national league in the UK, represented them in 6 European cups and captaining the team before leaving 2001 to play for Polytechnique, where again he captained (and sometimes coached) and continued to play in the first division national league until the age of 40. He gained two blues at university one table tennis the other for water polo.