Randal Stephenson is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Advisory at Pali Capital, Inc. Randal is a nationally recognized M&A expert with over nineteen years' experience, having completed over 150 investment and M&A advisory transactions valued at approximately USD 30 billion in the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Randal's transaction experience encompasses distressed and turnaround principal investment, "bulge bracket" investment banking advisory to the world's largest corporations, and "middle market" M&A advisory involving distressed, special situation, and bankruptcy-related transactions.
Prior to Pali, Randal was Head of the Middle Market & Acquisitions Group and Head of Distressed & Special Situations Advisory at CIT. Prior to CIT, Randal was a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Jefferies & Company, where he oversaw the Exclusive Sales & Divestitures and Distressed Restructuring-Related M&A Advisory practices.
Randal came to Jefferies from Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was a Director and Head of the New York office of Merrill's Middle Market Mergers & Acquisitions Group, which became one of the world's largest middle-market investment banking platforms. Prior to Merrill, Randal worked at the well-known advisory boutique Wolfensohn & Co. where he was a Principal and Co-Head of the Asian Cross-Border M&A Advisory practice, and later when the firm was sold to Bankers Trust / Deutsche Bank, he was a senior mergers and acquisitions banker focused on the industrial and consumer sectors.
Before becoming an investment banker, Randal was a co-founder and managing principal of Enprotech Corps, the captive distressed investment platform of the Japanese conglomerate Itochu Corporation. At Enprotech Randal and his partners amassed over $1.0 billion in distressed assets from a plan on paper. Randal began his professional career as a bankruptcy and M&A lawyer with the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.
Randal received his BA in economics from the University of Michigan, his J.D. (with distinction) from Boston College Law School (where he was editor of the law review), and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Randal is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Bars of Massachusetts and New York.
Randal has been quoted frequently in the media including CNBC, The Street.com, Institutional Investor, Investment Dealers Digest, Bloomberg Radio, Buyouts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity Week, and The Deal.
Partner, GravityTank, Chicago
Steven Elliott is a partner in the innovation consulting firm GravityTank, whose clients include Energizer, Goodyear, OfficeMax, Samsung, Unilever and many others. He is also a retained adviser on real estate investment interests for the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management.
He was previously CEO of The Lyle Anderson Company, an award-winning master developer of luxury real estate communities in Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Scotland. He was founder and CEO of Clubessential, a provider of Internet-based community software for private clubs, yacht clubs, and other lifestyle-oriented clubs, and a pioneer in leveraging the power of online, interactive communication. He was also a senior officer of KSL Recreation Corporation, an owner/operator of luxury destination resorts and a KKR portfolio company.
Steven is a graduate of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Vice President, Business Development, Marquis Jet Partners, New York
Mark is Vice President of Business Development for Marquis Jet Partners, a pioneer in private jet cards which give consumers the convenience, quality and safety of the world’s premier fractional aircraft ownership program.
Previously, Mark spent 12 years with the NBA, mostly as head of sales and marketing for consumer products. Working closely with both licensees and retailers, he made sure companies like Dick’s Sporting Goods and Wal-Mart got the right NBA products and also provided marketing support.
Mark also spent five years with Major League Baseball’s sponsorship group, where he developed marketing partnership programs, and also played a key role in the development of MLB.com.
Mark earned a B.A. in Marketing Communications from the University of Michigan.
Partner, Finance & Administration, Adams Capital Management, Pittsburgh
Established in 1994, Adams Capital Management is a national venture capital firm noted for its domain expertise in disruptive technologies in the Information Technology and Telecommunications/Semiconductors industries. Andrea is responsible for internal and external financial reporting, accounting, tax, marketing, limited partner relations and administration of the firm’s venture capital partnerships and management company.
