BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The FENG//NONSGML v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:1775618333@thefeng.org
DTSTAMP:20260408T031853Z
DTSTART:20251021T130000Z
DTEND:20251021T140000Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Andy Pratt:MAILTO:andrew.pratt4@outlook.com
SUMMARY:THE FENG: The Business Exit Roadmap: Priming Your Business for a Sale
LOCATION:Zoom
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams&nbsp;Topic: The Business Exit Roadmap: Priming Your Business for a SaleSpeakers:&nbsp;Alasdair Nisbet, CEO; Elizabeth Goldhill, Chief Operating Officer; and Jennifer Midura Heywood, Managing Director of Natrium Capital Ltd.&nbsp;Presentation:&nbsp;In this session, Alasdair Nisbet and Jennifer Midura Heywood will outline some of the key aspects that a Finance Director would need to consider ahead of the sale of a business.They will touch on how to anticipate the problems and manage the expectations of others in the management team. This invaluable advice will be both “business school ready” and will be drawn upon Alasdair’s extensive experience of helping businesses to prepare for a sale from the point of view of a Senior Banker and Jennifer’s experience from the other side of the fence as a corporate executive, working for both major multinational companies and smaller businesses.&nbsp;Speakers' bios:Alasdair Nisbet is one of the leading M&amp;A (Mergers and Acquisitions) advisors to the chemical industry. In his over 30-year career, he has worked on many of the most significant M&amp;A transactions in the industry. These include a number of transformational acquisitions, divestments and restructuring deals. Alasdair has advised many of the largest global chemical, materials and oil companies in North America, Europe and Asia including, BASF, Dow Chemicals, Rohm &amp; Haas, PPG Industries, Rockwood, Tata Chemicals, INEOS, Chemtura and Shell.He founded Natrium Capital as an independent advisory firm in 2012 having previously headed up the Global Chemical M&amp;A business for Lazard. Before that, Alasdair headed the chemicals industry business at Wasserstein Perella, which was later taken over and became Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the global investment banking firm. He began his career working as an equity analyst providing research on companies in Europe and Asia.He has a Masters in Chemistry from University College, Oxford.&nbsp;Jennifer Midura Heywood is a Managing Director at Natrium Capital. She was Head of Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions at Akzo-Nobel N.V. before becoming Head of Strategy at GKN. She was also a Non-Executive Director of Oxea (later OQ) and a Trustee of the John Innes Centre research institute.Jennifer has had an international career in Industrial company strategy and has managed Mergers and Acquisitions at the highest levels within corporations. She started her post-MBA career at McKinsey in the USA and then moved to London. She was the Head of Strategy at ICI before moving to Akzo-Nobel with the takeover. She has particular expertise in a variety of industries including Chemicals, Paints and Coatings, Mining, Petfood and Automotive Leasing.Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy from The John Hopkins University and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.Elizabeth Goldhill is the Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for compliance and corporate services at Natrium Capital. Elizabeth was formerly a director of Schroder Investment Management (UK) Limited. She was an investment director managing global investment portfolios for major pension funds and other institutional clients. In that role, she was a recipient of Her Majesty the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement. She also established and managed the corporate governance and social responsibility teams at Schroders. Prior to that she was a portfolio manager for N M Rothschild in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.She has an MA in Mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford University.Sponsor: Paul Goodman, Founder, Goodman Masson
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR