Translating Strategy into Results
We help clients build sustaining strategic and operational value from transactions.
Get a Complete Picture
We conduct commercial, operational and technology diligence focused on critical valuation assumptions.
Accelerate Integration
We help clients throughout the journey - day one readiness, 100-day plan, integration and synergy capture.
Capture Synergies
We help clients develop a thoughtful target operating model and capture the right synergies.
TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT
Strategy › Diligence › Integration › Synergies
We provide management solutions for carve-outs, mergers and acquisitions and new ventures.
Greenwood Management Advisors was founded in 2014 with a mission to bring both deep business experience and next generation analytic technologies to transaction advisory. As an alternative to large consulting firms – we pride ourselves in our agility, and ability to bring innovative solutions to our clients.
As investment returns have become more dependent on strategic and operational initiatives, clients have increasingly needed better analytic technologies to enact meaningful change.
SOLUTIONS
OUR SOLE FOCUS IS ON CREATING AND CAPTURING VALUE FROM GROWTH STRATEGIES.
—CLOSE FASTER
Highly targeted diligence, data driven assumptions, and deep transaction valuation expertise combine to help our clients close the right deals, at the right price, faster.
—GET A COMPLETE PICTURE
Analytic and operating expertise help our clients develop a more complete picture of the transaction, and better estimate the impact of operational improvements.
—QUICKLY GAIN VISIBILITY
Rapid data integration allows Senior Management to quickly get a handle on actual performance vs. expectations – mitigating the risk of a post-close performance dip.
—ACCELERATE PERFORMANCE
Clear 100-day plans with a highly targeted focus on the few optimization opportunities which really matter, help our clients accelerate post-close operational improvements.
VALUE CREATION
FOCUS ON THE RIGHT THINGS – THOSE WHICH REALLY MATTER.
Value Creation Requires Agile Execution
Recent studies suggest that two thirds to three fourths of companies fail to get the intended results from strategies. While evidence indicates strategy and execution should not be thought of separately – the gap between well laid plans, and achieving results continues to widen. The gap is particularly prominent in transactions.
Often times synergy estimates, and integration plans are developed with flawed assumptions, integration is managed by a one-size-fits-all plan, and value creation is relegated to the sidelines. The challenge of achieving the intended goals is further compounded by an uncertain environment and incomplete information.
Experience and awareness are key in maintaining agility – and agility is key to achieving results. Anticipating what is coming next, based on past experience, allows us to help your team side-step significant risks and stay focused on getting the most important things right.
Greenwood Management Advisors serves as the conduit to successfully price and execute complex transactions.
FULLY UNDERSTAND OPPORTUNITIES
Proprietary technology, deep operating expertise, and an industry expert network, help identify opportunities and costs others often overlook.
ACCELERATE VALUE CAPTURE
Proprietary tools - developed through numerous transactions - allow your team to quickly mobilize, gain momentum and turn focus from managing checklists to creating and capturing value.
ANTICIPATE AND MITIGATE RISK
Significant transaction experience - our consultants have participated in hundreds of transactions - allows us to anticipate and mitigate risks: capital and operating expenditures, talent retention, customer turnover, and organization disruption.
EXECUTE WITH AGILITY
Deep reporting and technology expertise allows us to quickly provide visibility into financial performance and key operating metrics. Having the right information at the right time is key to agile execution.

Ryan has managed and executed over 100 diligence engagements and 60 completed transactions. He has worked in Venture Capital, as CFO/COO for an algorithmic trading platform, and as an advisor to leading Private Equity and Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Certified Public Accountant (Accredited in Business Valuation) license, and Certified Information Systems Auditor designation. He holds BSBA and MSBA degrees from the University of Colorado, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
We serve clients in a broad variety of industries including: Media, Entertainment, Technology, Healthcare, Transportation, Manufacturing, Insurance, and Services.
We have national reach, with local expertise across the United States, including: Colorado, New York, California, and Atlanta. All Greenwood engagement members work as one team, serving clients across the country at both their local headquarters and at regional operating units.
Focused experience driving transaction value:
- $2.3b Carve-Out | Transportation
Day One readiness, integration
- $275m Acquisition | Healthcare
Strategy, value creation, technical accounting
- $120m Acquisition | Healthcare
Integration, value creation
- $1.2b Carve-Out | Manufacturing
Diligence management (operational, technology, human resources, financial)
- $600m Acquisition | Transportation
Structure, integration, value creation
- $40m Acquisition | Transportation
Negotiation support
- $25m Carve Out | Technology
Financial diligence, operational diligence
- $40m Acquisition | Healthcare
Integration, value creation
- $200m Revenue Entity | Insurance
Market entry strategy, commercial diligence, industry diligence
- $5b Revenue | Healthcare
Interim C-level, financial technology improvement, process improvement, tax system optimization
- $1B Carve Out & Merger | Venue Management
Carve-out mangement, merger management
- $110m Acquisition | Healthcare
Diligence, day one readiness, data integration, technical accounting
- $135m Acquisition | Healthcare
Day one readiness, integration, value creation
- $5m Acquisition | Services
Financial diligence
- $125m Acquisition | Healthcare
Structure, integration, value creation
- $35m Acquisition | Technology
Structure, integration, value creation
- $10m Acquisition | Services
Technical accounting, integration, value creation
- $70m Acquisition | Healthcare
Structure, valuation, technical accounting, integration, value creation
- $100m Acquisition | Services and Technology
Structure, modeling, integration, value creation
- $100m Acquisition | Healthcare
Structure, modeling, technical accounting, integration, value creation
We work with Principal Investors facing complex transaction challenges, including:
Private Equity Investors, Institutional Investors and Fortune 500 Corporations.
Greenwood has been a huge asset to our firm, providing diligence and integration support for a large number of acquisitions. The breadth of functional knowledge, experience and technical ability have enabled them to tackle the most complex challenges as each acquired company has been integrated. Greenwood has provided tremendous benefit by consistently knowing what needs to be done, how to do it, doing the hard work; and most importantly, enabling others on the team to be more successful.
As a private equity firm, Greenwood’s acumen in both investing and operations has served us very well; it is a valuable combination. In due diligence, Greenwood dives deep into operating issues and translates those through an investment lens. Most importantly, they provide estimates of carve-out costs and synergies in due diligence processes, execute plans, and deliver results that do not disappoint. Impressively, it is clear that Greenwood feels a sense of moral obligation to deliver upon promises, leaving the organization in a better state.
Greenwood brought a unique set of capabilities ranging from developing a plan, building a business case, and then most importantly actually did the technical work to get the project done.
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