2. IT M&A

Over The Counter (OTC) product and manufacturing site carveout from a global healthcare company & integrating into France headquartered healthcare company

IT Carveout 

Sep 2024 - Jan 2026

A leading global healthcare company headquartered in the US carved out its OTC products and 2 manufacturing sites located in France & Italy, and 1 R&D site located in Italy. These products and sites were then integrated into a France headquartered European healthcare company.

Carved out entity: 500 FTE, €500mn, sales offices in 10 European countries, 2 manufacturing sites, 1 R&D site Acquiring entity: 1,500 FTE, around €1bn revenue

IT carveout TSA exit was planned for 12 months, around €1mn per month TSA cost

IT carveout one-off budget was around €20mn (Apps, Infra, IT service management, cyber security)

IT workstream was sub-divided into Apps, Infra, Data and IT PMO. Total consultant team size was 10+ IT Infra set up needed

Group Infra to be set up - Group standards across HQ, local site hosting, consistent Network architecture, reducing vendor landscape, homogenous Azure admin set up, setting up group standard workplace and M365 policies across locations etc

Infra team consisted of CTO, network lead, infrastructure lead, Azure & M365 admin, and local IT country managers IT carveout included planning all app migrations including legacy ERP and factory operations related MES and other factory apps, with interface to ERP

Lift & Shift was the principle, requiring greater co-ordination with seller's IT and multiple vendor's across buyer's site locations

New data centre agreement was set up with a French datacentre, to host critical ERP and site specific apps, which were migrated from seller's data centre in Frankfurt

Local site hosting was set up using Azure HCI stack and VM combination - to be supported by data centre team post migration

Project charters were built for all Apps and Infra migration

File Share of around 20 TB size were migrated during the process

Factory migrations ran for across 1 month for each factory site

Infra optimisation included global service desk set up & ITSM implementation

Contracted initially for 10 months, was extended to 16 months

Excelitas (US headquartered industrial & med tech manufacturer) acquiring Haraeus Nobelight (German HQ)

Role: IT Integration Lead 

July 2023 - March 2024

Acquiring company: $1.5bn US based global Industrial and Medical Technology Manufacturer Selling Parent Company: Germany based $5bn diversified and globally leading family-owned technology company Acquired Entity: $800mn Manufacture of Specialty Lighting Component (carved out from Selling Parent Company)

Role: IT Integration Lead supporting IT Carve-out from Selling Parent Company;

IT Integration into Acquiring Entity Scale of IT Carve-out & Integration: CAPEX spend of around £10mn one-off; OPEX spend of around £10mn yearly

Activities Performed:

IT Due Diligence on the acquired entity covering Applications (150+ Apps), Hybrid Network having site locations around 10 countries with multiple sites per country, End User Devices (Laptops/Mobiles, Peripherals), IT Service Management, Cyber Security, IT & Cloud Infrastructure Assets

Leading IT Workstream through Pre-Signing then Sign to Close Period lasting around 4 months
Inputs on IT TSA

IT Carve-out supporting Selling Parent across sub-workstreams and working with cross-functional teams

Leading IT Integration preparing and executing Approach and Detailed Plan for 150+ Apps including SAP instance for Manufacturing Operations, Dynamics CRM Tenant Migration with around 100 workflows and multiple Integration Points, O365 Migration, Device Migrations, Infrastructure & Network set up and migration in a Hybrid (On-Prem/Cloud set up) working out strategies of least user impact through provision of Applications through VDI/Azure Virtual Machines mapping out all dependencies of Application Migration

Setting up Support Model for Application & Infrastructure Migration

Leading Supplier Selection & RFP process for identifying multiple Migration Partners for Application Migration and Infrastructure Migration; Vendor Negotiations for BAFO

Reporting to CIO having a global IT team of 100+

Cross-Functional engagement with wider IMO & SMO (10+ workstreams)

At the peak of engagement, leading a team of 100+