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He works across sectors, including life sciences, healthcare, high tech, and industrials, and collaborates with companies to realize a step-change in performance. He focuses on helping organizations create and deliver strategy, ensure effective CEO and CFO transitions, drive large-scale portfolio change and transformation, and deliver the full potential of all facets of M&A.</p> <p>His experience also spans restructuring and cost management, investor relations, and large-scale reorganization. He has worked extensively in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Andy鈥檚 recent client work includes the following:</p> <ul> <li>leading a portfolio transformation for a specialty pharmaceutical company, involving reallocating more than $40 billion in capital to high-growth market segments, a dozen transactions, and building deep M&A capabilities, leading to a five-fold increase in market capitalization</li> <li>helping a materials-science organization redeploy $20 billion in capital, including programmatic M&A and investor relations strategy to identify, evaluate, and engage target companies over an 18-month period</li> <li>delivering a multiyear strategy and performance transformation for a private company, creating a two-fold increase in valuation and ultimately resulting in an IPO</li> <li>developing a growth strategy to significantly expand cross-selling and new market opportunities for a medical-equipment provider in the context of a major portfolio shift, including M&A, divestiture, and organic acceleration</li> </ul></div><div 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class="mdc-c-link___lBbY1_8032924"><span data-component="mdc-c-icon" class="mdc-c-icon___oi7ef_8032924 mdc-c-icon--size-xs___g8-q5_8032924 mck-arrow-right-icon"></span><span class="mdc-c-link__label___Pfqtd_8032924">M&A</span></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div class="mdc-o-content-body Profile_mck-c-profile__content-body__r8B5S Profile_mck-c-profile__additional-body__hv_Ft"><h3>Published work</h3> <p>“<a href="/capabilities/m-and-a/our-insights/what-it-takes-to-make-separations-a-competitive-difference-maker">What it takes to make separations a competitive difference-maker</a>,” McKinsey & Company, December 2024</p> <h3>Past experience</h3> <p><strong>Monitor Deloitte</strong><br /> Summer consultant</p> <p><strong>EY</strong><br /> Senior consultant</p> <h3>EDUCATION</h3> <p><strong>Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University</strong><br /> MBA, finance, entrepreneurship, and strategic management</p> <p><strong>Washington University in St. Louis</strong><br 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It seems as though the shapes have separated and taken on their own distinct forms." src="/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functions/m%20and%20a/our%20insights/what%20it%20takes%20for%20separations%20to%20make%20a%20competitive%20difference/machapter%207%20separations2177146756thumb1536x1536.jpg?cq=50&mw=767&car=42:25&cpy=Center" loading="lazy"/></picture></a></div><div data-component="mdc-c-content-block" class="mdc-c-content-block___7p6Lu_8032924 mdc-u-grid-gutter-xs GenericItem_mck-c-generic-item__content__gq1m0"><div class="mck-c-eyebrow mdc-u-ts-10"><span>Article</span></div><div data-component="mdc-c-content-block" class="mdc-c-content-block___7p6Lu_8032924"><h5 data-component="mdc-c-heading" class="mdc-c-heading___0fM1W_8032924"><a data-component="mdc-c-link" href="/capabilities/m-and-a/our-insights/what-it-takes-to-make-separations-a-competitive-difference-maker" class="mdc-c-link-heading___Zggl8_8032924 mdc-c-link-heading--with-icon___ssPll_8032924 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