Our team of creative and strategic thinkers blends together formal experience with innovative approaches to valuation, deal marketing and structuring. Here are just a few leaders of our award-winning team:
THOMAS SMALE - CEO
Thomas originally founded FE in 2010, with the aim of helping entrepreneurs running self-funded and profitable businesses exit. Since then, Thomas has built FE into the industry-leading M&A advisor for $1- 100M technology businesses. With experience dating back to the early 2000s, Smale offers invaluable technical, diligence and negotiation advice to early-stage and seasoned business owners alike, which has resulted in over 1,200 successful exits.
Randal is a seasoned M&A expert with over 25 years of experience in mergers & acquisitions advisory and debt and equity capital raising. A Harvard MBA and attorney licensed in New York, Randal has led international deal teams and managed investment banking platforms at several Wall Street firms. He has held senior investment banking positions at Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, CIT Group, and Duff & Phelps, and has closed over 230 transactions valued at $43 billion across 22 countries RANDAL STEPHENSON - HEAD OF INVESTMENT BANKING
Alon is responsible for FE's digital media vertical, supporting clients and investors across affiliate marketing, display advertising, and digital product businesses. He spent several years working in Investment Banking with a focus on M&A in the middle market sub-segment. Alon also has experience working in Asset Management for ScotiaBank, one of Canada’s largest financial institutions. ALON SHEINBERG – VICE PRESIDENT OF DIGITAL MEDIA M&A
Ashley is a Senior Associate on the M&A team at FE. She provides crucial advisory services across digital media and other areas. Prior to joining the FE team, Ashley worked in public accounting servicing companies with gross revenues ranging from six- to ten- figures within the technology industry. Ashley is a Certified Public Accountant in New York State. ASHLEY BOHN - SENIOR M&A ASSOCIATE
Kishan is a Vice President in FE’s Audit Team and joined FE International in September 2019, having qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA), a Tax Professional (ITP) and graduating from Cass Business School, City University of London with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Banking and International Finance. Prior to joining FE, Kishan spent three and a half years at KPMG in their Deal Advisory, M&A Tax team as an associate working on pre/post deal structuring, buy-side and sell-side due diligence and IPOs. KISHAN PATEL – VICE PRESIDENT OF AUDIT
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