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David Smith is an authority on mergers and acquisitions and corporate investment decision making. He is Investment Adviser to a major media corporation and acts as consultant to a number of top FTSE100 industrial and commercial clients. He lectures extensively on M & A and corporate finance at leading business schools and has run seminars worldwide for clients and also on an open basis for many years.
Previously, David Smith was a director of MDA, a management development and education consultancy, and headed their corporate finance division. Prior to that, he worked with the Shell group as a senior manager having responsibility for advising on all significant mergers and acquisitions undertaken within the group on a worldwide basis.
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Based both overseas and in the UK, David Smith also developed extensive experience of evaluating major investment decisions. David Smith qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds a BSc in Physics from Birmingham University, England, UK. For further information - David Smith Partnership.
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David Sadtler is an Associate of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. His research, teaching and consulting activities are concentrated on questions of strategy at both the corporate and business unit levels. David Sadtler is the author of a number of articles on the issues and challenges of corporate level strategy.
A graduate of Brown University in Mathematics and Economics and of the Harvard Business School, his career had been divided between consulting and industry. David Sadtler was the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Medi-Computer Corporation, a company engaged in laboratory analysis products, which was acquired by Vickers, Ltd. of the UK. He served as the first President of Vickers America, Inc.
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David Sadtler was the Corporate Development Director and a Main Board Director of London International Group plc, a diversified healthcare company, for eight years and is a two-time alumnus of McKinsey & Company, having served a broad range of clients in questions of strategy in the New York, Amsterdam, and London offices.
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David Sadtler is a co-author of the recent book, "Breakup! When Large Companies Are Worth More Dead Than Alive", which describes the burgeoning corporate breakup movement and explains why demerged business often perform better when they become independent. His more recent book on acquisition strategy, co-authored with David Smith, "Successful Business Acquisition" explains why so many acquisitions fail and proposes an approach to improving the chances of success.
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Andrew Campbell is a world authority on corporate-level strategy both as an academic and a consultant. Andrew Campbell has wide experience of helping companies make portfolio decisions. He is director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Center where he leads research on acquisitions and related topics. Andrew Campbell directs management programmers at Ashridge on business strategy and on acquisition strategy, and he is author of the classic text "Corporate Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company" (Wiley 1994) and "'Synergy' Why Links Between Business Units Fail and How to Make Them Work", and also "Break Up! When Large Companies are Worth More Dead Than Alive".
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Previously Andrew Campbell was a Fellow at the Centre for Business Strategy at the London Business School. Before that he worked as a consultant for six years with McKinsey & Co. on strategy assignments and acquisitions. Andrew Campbell holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He is a visiting professor at City University Business School. For further information visit: Andrew Campbell
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Hamish Donaldson developed his approach to Project Management when at consultants Urwick, Orr & Partners. When he joined mechant bank, Hill Samuel, as Manager Projects he was able to put these principles into practice with immediate and stunning results. His book "A Guide to the Successful Management of Computer Projects" was a best seller when it was published in 1978 going into several reprints. In the book Hamish Donaldson introduced concepts that are accepted now, but which were far ahead of their time (for example the insistence on a Project Sponsor, the concept of the Project Supervisor, Work Breakdown Structures and the 3 1/2 day planning week).
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After being appointed a Director of the bank, Hamish Donaldson was seconded to Hill Samuel Merchant Bank (South Africa) as Managing Director. After revitalising and selling the business he returned to the UK and was appointed Chief Executive of Hill Samuel Bank steering it through the merger and integration in TSB Group.For the last ten years Hamish Donaldson has been working both as a management consultant and in the voluntary sector. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has an MA in mathematics.
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