ACG IN January Breakfast Meeting

Todd started his career as a private practice attorney focusing his practice on a variety of complex business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, management of international operations, corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance and antitrust law.  Todd spent time at both Ice Miller LLP and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.  Todd joined Allison Transmission in 2011 where he focused on Allison’s international and domestic business activities and commercial sales relationships. In 2014, Todd was promoted to Managing Director, Deputy General Counsel where he assumed responsibility for overseeing the global legal services provided to Allison in support of its operational needs, such as commercial contracts, merger and acquisition activity and human resources.  In 2017, Todd was promoted to Executive Director.  In 2018, Todd took the position of Vice President, Business Development where he is responsible for overseeing corporate and business development opportunities for Allison.  Since Todd has moved into this role, he has lead Allison’s acquisitions of Axle Tech Electric Vehicle Systems (April 2019), Vantage Power (April 2019) and Walker Die Casting (September 2019).

Todd holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and information systems from Illinois State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with University Honors. Todd graduated Cum Laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. In 2010 and 2011, Todd was named by Law & Politics Magazine as a Rising Star in corporate legal matters and mergers and acquisitions. In both 2014 and 2015, Todd was the recipient of Junior Achievements Indy’s Best and Brightest Award, which identifies the Top 100 professionals in Indianapolis under the age of 40.