NextGen Breakfast and Learn: The Underperforming Business

Dustin Hill provides strategic and financial advice on mergers & acquisitions (M&A), capital transactions, business valuations, and asset management. He is currently a Senior Associate at FINNEA Group, a boutique investment bank with offices in Birmingham, MI and Chicago, IL. Dustin more than 5 years of experience advising clients and businesses with a variety of different strategic and financial initiatives. Prior to joining FINNEA Group, Dustin was a Senior Advisory Consultant with Ernst & Young where he focused on finance and business strategy for Fortune 500 clients.
 
Throughout his career, Dustin has worked with a wide variety of clients, including underperforming private and corporate subsidiaries which have included business assessments, turnaround advisory, and divestitures.
 
Dustin received a B.S.B.A in Finance and a B.S.B.A in Real Estate Development from Central Michigan University, as well as an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Mr. Rizzo provides business valuation expertise in many types of transactions including, but not limited to mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes and gift tax valuations providing objective, independent valuations according to facts and circumstances surrounding your individual engagement. Mr. Rizzo provides litigation economic damages analysis to clients with a variety of issues, such as, patent infringement, warranty breaches, and contract disputes within many different industries. Mr. Rizzo also provides extensive corporate turnaround consulting services with hands-on experience with tech companies, consumer product manufacturers and consumer goods & services companies. The various major industries in which Mr. Rizzo has significant experience include, but are not limited to: Aerospace, Agriculture, Automotive, Banking, Construction, Consumer Goods & Services, Food Service, Gaming, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Technology, and Transportation. Mr. Rizzo was named an Emerging Leader by the M&A Advisor in 2017.

Education

M.B.A. Davenport University Accounting

B.S. Arizona State University Interdisciplinary Studies – Concentration Business and Sociology

Katey is an attorney at Dickinson Wright PLLC whose practice focuses on creditor’s rights, insolvency and business reorganizations. Katey has experience representing debtors and creditors both in Bankruptcy Court and in out of court workouts. Katey taught middle school and at risk youth before obtaining her J.D. from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Darrell Smith is a Vice President with Michigan Capital Advisors and has nearly 10 years of experience in middle-market private equity, investment banking, and operational consulting. Prior to joining Michigan Capital in 2017, Mr. Smith was a Manager with BCBS of Michigan Corporate Strategy team, where he identified and evaluated new market opportunities to grow the enterprise amidst the significant health care reform. Prior to BCBS of Michigan, Darrell worked at United Road Services, the second largest new vehicle transportation company in North American, providing financial and operational support to the President and COO. During his tenure with United Road, Darrell led the development of a dynamic pricing model and assisted in securing the single largest new customer account in the company’s history.

From 2011 to 2015, Darrell served as an Associate for Prairie Capital Advisors, a Chicago based financial advisory firm providing investment banking, ESOP advisory and valuation services to middle-market businesses. While at Prairie Capital, Smith completed 10 leveraged buyout transactions and performed approximately 25 annual valuations for the firm for clients in manufacturing, distribution and transportation & logistics.

Darrell began his career in Chicago as a Management Consultant for KPMG within their Business Effectiveness practice working with both publicly traded and middle market companies on strategic direction, finance, and operational improvement engagements. While at KPMG, Mr. Smith assisted the second largest North American grain trader with new market entry pertaining to current and new products in a few emerging markets, specifically the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management and specialization in International Business from Michigan State University.

Ms. VanderVeen is a senior associate in Dickinson Wright’s Banking and Finance Group. Based in Detroit, Ms. VanderVeen assists clients (both banks and borrowers) with all aspects of commercial finance transactions, including initial structuring and documentation, modifications and amendments, and restructurings and refinancings. Ms. VanderVeen has expertise in multi-bank/multi-borrower loans, cash-flow-based and asset-based loans, real estate financing, acquisition financing, and cross-border financing. Ms. VanderVeen also assists corporate clients in a variety of business matters.