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Speaking: Conferences, Business schools (Henley, LBS, Ashridge, CASS, Brunel) Author of “M&A Integration: how to do it: planning and delivery”, articles with Finance Director Europe (FDE), The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), The British Compute Society (BCS) Developing HR Strategy, Journal of Brand Management, Corporate Financier, The Treasurer.

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Summary

Danny A.Davis (March 17, 1972) is a UK resident, sportsman and an M&A programme expert from a Sales, Marketing and HR background. He spent much of his youth playing a number of sports and representing England in the home nations for water polo.

As a respected thinker in the M&A space, he has given lectures at the prestigious London Business School for over a decade, was programme director M&A at Henley business school and speaks on the global circuit. Danny sat on the board of the Charity (CMI), chaired their Marketing and policy committee and currently resides on their expert’s panel. He currently runs DD Consulting, an M&A consultancy. His book “M&A Integration: How to do it – Planning and Delivering M&A Integration for Business Success” was widely received by academics and practitioners alike.

Sport

He attended the City of London School, where he was chairman of the bridge society, chairman of the carom club, rowed for the school, was captain of the swimming team and was part of the relay team to win the bath cup.

At university he represented the university briefly for lacrosse, was chairman of the table tennis club and captain of various teams throughout his time there.

He spent 30 years playing water polo, firstly at school, then for his county Middlesex at under 16’s, under 19’s and men’s teams. He played for the under 19 team whilst only 15. He also represented the South of England under 16’s and under 19’s and England Juniors in the home nations winning the gold medal. He remained in the men’s international squad for a decade and played his last game for England at the age of 27 before retiring from international to do an MBA.

During this time he played in seven international competitions for Hammersmith Penguin water polo club, one of the top clubs in the country. In 2002 he moved over to Polytechnique, the most successful water polo club in British history, where he continues to play Division 1 national league water polo. Danny was captain of both Penguin and Poly. He continues to play national league water polo at the age of 41 when this page was written.

Charity

Danny spent 8 years helping the Chartered Management Institute, firstly on their marketing and policy committee, and then chairing it. He served a 3 year term on the board as their youngest ever trustee. He now resides on their Subject Matter Experts panel and is a member of the CMI Faculty. He also sat on the board for drawing up of the Institute of Consulting Code of Professional Conduct and Practice.

Danny also devotes some of his time to the Cranfield Trust, where he acts a free consultant to charities, where needed.

Career

Danny started off on a graduate training programme, moving around a FTSE 100 gaining experience, being generally involved with far reaching strategic programmes, some internal consolidation projects and M&A.

After an MBA at Cranfield, he was a strategy consultant with one of the Big 4 before branching out on his own to set up DD Consulting, now a 12-partner 12-country firm.

His projects include some of the largest M&A deals and change programmes in the world, including:

•	Helping to plan and deliver the BP-Castrol merger across Europe, with 30 countries, 26 functional workstreams and consolidating 250 business units together with his BP colleagues. •	Board workshops in Russia, to help the Alcatel lucent deal. •	One of the largest HR transformations on the planet ($525mn spend), starting with a review of people, process, systems and moving to then use these changes to drive change across the whole organisaiton.

Danny has worked on deals from small to large, with a 100 employee company taking over 25 employee, through to $6bn and $16bn deals. His work includes one to two days with a client to set up the integration and mobilization workshops and 100 day plans, through to the planning and running of a $6bn deal across 30 countries over three years.

Talks and Conferences Danny A. Davis is a guest speaker at a number of the world’s top business schools on strategy and M&A. He was programme director of M&A at Henley Business School and has been a guest speaker at London Business School on Strategy and M&A for a decade.

He has spoken at and chaired numerous M&A integration conferences around the world. In addition to numerous financial transformation conferences, Danny delivered M&A integration training for many corporate and private equity houses.

He brings a unique background that combines experience as an international sportsman, sales and marketing in large corporations, a strategy consultant and involvement with integration for two decades. This background means he understands the theory but combines this with a proven ability to deliver M&A integration and large transformations in highly complex organisations.

Publishing He has been published prolifically in business journals including Finance Director Europe, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, The British Compute Society, Henley Business School, British Computer Society, CFO Europe, Developing HR Strategy. He was featured on CIMA magazine for leaders with a three-page profile.

His book, “M&A Integration: HOW TO DO IT, Planning and Delivering M&A Integration for Business Success”, was published in (year). The book provides tools, checklists and lessons learnt from M&A deals. The book has been selected for M&A reading list in renown universities such as Cornell University.