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With more than two decades of experience as a financial adviser, institutional investor, and operating executive, Mr. Dronzek is a skilled practitioner in mergers and acquisitions advisory work, valuations, corporate restructurings and financings.
Since 1984, Mr. Dronzek has participated in completed corporate transactions with an aggregate value of over $4 billion. Prior to forming Media Business Advisers, Inc., Mr. Dronzek was a vice president of General Electric Capital Corporate Finance Group, Inc., where he was responsible for marketing its lending and equity investing activities to all segments of the publishing industry in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
His career in publishing began at Time Inc., where he served for nine years, as director of financial planning and analysis for the corporation and, prior to that, as business manager of Time magazine. In the 1980's Mr. Dronzek served as research director and a transaction executive at Veronis, Suhler & Associates Inc., where he worked on a number of significant communications industry sales, purchases, financings and valuations.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Dronzek served as a U.S. financial representative for a major Saudi Arabian holding company, Xenel Industries Ltd., of Jeddah, for which he was involved in an extensive $100 million financial and operational restructuring of a steel company, as well as its sale through a prepackaged Chapter 11 filing to Cargill, Inc. Earlier, at Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc., he helped arrange corporate financings for U.S. real estate companies.
Mr. Dronzek received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Dronzek also received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. He is a member of The Institute of Business Appraisers, Inc and Turnaround Management Association.
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Having served on many family business boards, Mr. Dreux is uniquely qualified to address the particular needs of family and owner-managed businesses. He served as President of State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, N.A. and for six years was Director of U. S. Trust Company's national Private Businesses Advisory Services practice. His professional involvement with family-owned businesses began in 1987 when he was Vice President in the Corporate Finance Department of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.'s Investment Banking Division.
Mr. Dreux also spent four years as Associate Director and Lecturer-in-Residence of the University of Connecticut's Family Business Program. He is a frequent lecturer on business succession, governance, management/organizational development and strategic marketing. He co-authored, with Joe M. Goodman, Esq., a book titled Succession Planning and Beyond:A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Representing Family Businesses published by the American Bar Association in 1997. Mr. Dreux is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and has an M.B.A. in Finance from Cornell University. Mr. Dreux is Principal of Dreux Consulting LLC, an advisory firm he founded in 1998 in Greenwich, Connecticut. |
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