Middle Market M & A, 2nd Edition

About the Contributors and Reviewers

Mary Adams is a consultant, speaker, and practitioner of intangible capitalism, which focuses on the long‐term pursuit of both profits and prosperity. Her current work includes working with Insights7, a software company, to launch a value creation dashboard that integrates financial and nonfinancial value drivers across a company's operations. She is also a cofounder of three communities: The Exit Planning Exchange, which brings long‐term thinking to the private company market; the Integrated Reporting U.S. Community, which brings long‐term thinking to public companies; and Smarter‐Companies, a specialty consulting community, which provides methodologies and tools to support intangible capitalism. Mary is the co‐author of Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization. Prior to starting her consulting firm in 1999, she spent 14 years as a high‐risk lender in the United States and Latin America at Citicorp and Sanwa Business Credit. She received a BA in Political Science from Rice University and a Master of International Management from the Thunderbird School (now part of Arizona State University).

Mike Adhikari, CM&AA, is president and owner of Illinois Corporate Investments, Inc. (ICI). For more than 30 years, ICI has been providing sell‐side and buy‐side M&A services to the lower‐middle market, completing transactions ranging from $1 million to $200 million in value. Supporting his work, Mike developed and ...