M&A experience
Acquisitions
I’ve sat on both sides of the deal table. On the buy side and the sell side. Here’s how, and what it taught me about building products that hold up under scrutiny.
Sell side · Advisor · 2026
SalesLeverage
I’m advising SalesLeverage, the company being acquired, as it prepares for the deal, building the technology the way a buyer will evaluate it.
- Buyer’s-eye technical review
- Acquisition readiness
Buy side · Staff Software Engineer, IQVIA · 2019–2022
IQVIA / CTCue
On the buyer’s side, I supported technical due diligence during IQVIA’s acquisition of CTCue, then led the deployment of CTCue at US hospitals. Along the way I put AI/ML models into production with robust data quality checks. Those checks showed that the health tech should be built on the HL7 FHIR standard instead of fit-for-purpose flat files, which saved IQVIA millions of dollars in wasted investment.
- Technical due diligence
- CTCue deployment at US hospitals
- FHIR over flat files, saving millions
Sell side · Senior Software Engineer, IBM · 2016–2018
IBM Watson Health / Truven Health
On the side of the company being acquired, I helped the Truven Health acquisition go smoothly by proactively identifying critical software deficiencies, such as memory leaks and missing integrations. I also integrated mortality risk scoring models and sped up processing by 50% across 150 million patient datasets.
- Found memory leaks and missing integrations
- 50% faster processing
- 150 million patient datasets
Working together