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Advisory Board Partners
Jay VanDerwerken has founded, operated, and successfully sold companies across multiple industries and markets. Mr. VanDerwerken's mergers and acquisitions experience and approach with company owners and executives involves profitable exit strategies encompassing thorough financial and company analyses and focused execution. He has consulted executive management in both private and public sectors including Fortune 500 companies, federal, state, and higher education organizations. His track record includes engagements in the millions of dollars involving high-level deal structurings and negotiations. Mr. VanDerwerken's background spans many sectors including transporation & logistics, healthcare and life sciences, information technology, manufacturing, construction, and insurance. Past roles while at a Fortune 500 companies and mid-market niche firms included consulting in an advisory capacity to senior-level management in the healthcare, technology, and financial industries. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business for the MBA and undergraduate programs (BusinessWeek’s #1 ranked U.S. business school for academic quality for 2009). Mr. VanDerwerken holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from George Mason University and has completed pertinent upper-level coursework from Georgetown University and the Investment Banking Institute of New York.
Jeff Noland is a senior finance and operations executive and former investment banker with experience involving mergers and acquisitions, complex valuations of both private and public securities, and structuring of real estate private equity transactions. His past executive roles at investment management firms have encompassed responsibilities for all acquisitions and business development activities, development and re-development ventures, and asset management initiatives. Mr. Noland has extensive experience as an investment banker with Fleet M&A Advisors (formerly Howard, Lawson & Co.) in their mergers and acquisitions and securities valuation practices. In this role, Mr. Noland was involved in dozens of valuations in many industries of public and private securities in the context of M&A advisory, pre-IPO valuations, stock option/warrant valuations, hostile takeover defense, and numerous valuations for tax purposes. While at the world- renowned economic consulting firm Charles River Associates, he coordinated the management of damages analyses and expert witness testimony for large corporate litigation matters and advised clients and managed damages analyses (through financial modeling involving discounted cash flow, comparable companies, and comparable transactions analyses) for complex matters involving patent and trademark infringement, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, securities laws violations, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and antitrust issues. Mr. Noland earned an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and also holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Angela Olmo has been involved with many mergers and acquisitions, anti-trust, and market analysis engagements during her career as an economic and statistical consultant to Fortune 500 companies. During her tenure at Charles River Associates, she consulted organizations in the energy, transportation, media and communications, food processing, grocery, and retail industries. Ms. Olmo provided complex analyses and statistical modeling to executives, the Federal Trade Commission, and litigation attorneys. Additional background experience includes vice president and director level positions held at firms in the consulting, fitness, and building industries. Ms. Olmo holds a BA in economics and statistics from Brigham Young University.
Adam Marquardt is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. His teaching and research activities focus on the development and implementation of brand strategies at both the organization and product levels. He teaches Product and Brand Management, Entrepreneurial Marketing, and Sports Marketing at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. Dr. Marquardt’s research interests include building and managing brands in sports, entertainment, entrepreneurial, and service contexts. He has published his research on branding under resource-constrained conditions and within highly commoditized service contexts such as the transportation and logistics industry in multiple journals, multiple book chapters, as well as presented his research at several marketing and entrepreneurship conferences. Professionally, Dr. Marquardt has owned four entrepreneurial ventures and presently serves in an advisory capacity to a number of businesses across the U.S. Dr. Marquardt received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Oregon, his MBA in Marketing and Integrated Value Chain Management from the University of Tennessee, and his Bachelors in Management from Salisbury University.
