A veteran of NASA's Apollo manned lunar landing program, Mr. Leavitt advises C-level executives in the networking, IT, telecom, and financial software sectors on value creation strategies that have resulted in numerous successes, including a widely-covered $15.7 billion merger, a multibillion dollar secondary, and several multimillion dollar financings and sales at premium-to-market valuations.Mr. Leavitt has worked with senior managements to craft and execute value enhancement platforms at such marquee firms as Fujitsu, Ltd., MGIC, ICL Retail, NSI, Invensys PLC, Greystone, HP, Encoda Systems, BizTelOne-NeuStar, Carbone Smolan, and AdMedia Partners as well as startups Marketswitch, QubeCity, Krypteian, Corporate Smarts, and Spectra Science. As President and CEO of a private company, Dyographics, Mr. Leavitt works with his Global 2000 clients to identify, present, and communicate those strategic, technological, and competitive elements that give a company force multiplier status, maximize its valuation, and confer powerful negotiating leverage when sitting across the table from prospective underwriters, commercial lenders, or private equity investors.Mr. Leavitt has also provided strategic category management, M&A analysis, competitive market assessment, and technology evaluation services to senior managements at such Fortune 1000 stalwarts as Merrill Lynch, Lehman, Canon, Worldwide Holdings, Volkswagen, CBS, The New York Times, Eastman Kodak, Time, Inc., and Ziff Davis.A high honors graduate of Brandeis University, Mr. Leavitt is also known for his global marketing expertise having co-authored a landmark study for the Harvard Business School on many of the operational, marketing, and channel management challenges facing Fortune 500 companies migrating to globally focused business and operating models in a case about Bronner Slosberg Humphrey. |