People profiles
Jon Burke
Professional Background
- Over 15 years of commercial management and business leadership experience working with large and SME companies
- 5+ years experience in global corporate organisation, ($8bn+ turnover) working on EMEA region M&A plans for highly acquisitive business
- Member of M&A Leadership Team, tasked with identifying targets, driving commercial justification and delivering integration activity plans
- Degree from Birmingham University and MBA from Cranfield University
- Based in the UK with extensive experience working abroad, delivering M&A and Carve-Outs across EMEA region; native English speaker.
M&A Skills & Expertise
- Experienced in large and small M&A integration and separation programmes, across EMEA region
- Experience across a wide array of sectors: security and doors, consumer durables, smart devices, heating technology, construction, engineering and education
- Delivering post-deal integration value creation plans; experience in achieving productivity and efficiency improvements, consolidation and standardisation as well as leveraging commercial opportunities for growth
- Creation of rationale and delivery of integration – seeing deals through from identification to completion
- Identifying key individuals and technologies in target business, and ensuring these are retained and maximised post-deal
- Preparing non-core business units for sale, including identifying buyer(s)
Industry & Sector Experience
Corporate M&A activity within Assa Abloy EMEA region includes:
- L-Door (2014) – Integration Leader
- Crawford (2014) – Integration Leader
- Traka (2012) – Commercial and Integration lead, justifying business case and delivering post-deal integration
- Safeguard (2012) – Integration Leader
- Securistyle (2011) – Commercial and Integration lead, justifying business case and delivering post-deal integration
- Paddock (2011) – Integration Leader
- Preparation of non-core business units for Carve-out (2012-4) – 3 deals, including identifying target buyers
Sector expertise
- Construction
- Consumer Product Supply
- Defence
- Groups & Conglomerates
- Industrial Electronics
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Media & Marketing
- Product Manufacturing
Service expertise
- Integration Strategy & Design
- Synergies & Value Creation
- Integration Management Office
- Day 1 & 100 Day Planning
- Work Stream Management
- Culture, Change & Communication
- Organization Design & Leadership Selection
- Carve-out Strategy & Design
- Carve-out Management Office
- Carve-out Day 1 Planning
- Work Stream Management
- Retention, Change & Communication
- Organization Design & Leadership Selection
- M&A Training
- In-house Capability
- Pre- & Post-implementation Reviews
Languages
- English
Experience