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Andrew Kahn

Cos Cob,CT

Summary

Dynamic Senior Managing Director/Partner with extensive expertise in Private Equity GTM. Proven track record of driving revenue growth and enhancing cross-functional collaboration across 800+ transactions.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Managing Director

Ankura Consulting Group
New York, NY
08.2024 - 06.2026
  • Led strategic PE growth across cybersecurity and OCFO, improving a.s.p. from $50,000 to more than $3,000,000 (600%)
  • Delivered $6.7 million TCV against a $1.5 million objective
  • Managed cross-functional teams, bridging siloed services for the first time in 27-year legacy practice history
  • Reduced GTM motions from more than 70 to 5 keyed to scale
  • Created and launched Portfolio CyberView (tm)
  • Analyzed market trends to inform business strategy and drive client engagement initiatives, specifically, competing and winning against Accenture, Accordion, and EY amongst others

Senior Managing Director

E78 Partners
Chicago, IL
03.2023 - 08.2024
  • Exceeded earn-out targets by more than 20% ($10 plus million versus $7.5 million baseline) in 6 months
  • Delivered $3 million net new revenue and multi-year proactive/reactive agreements for first time in the legacy business
  • Increased PE conversion in FP&A by 300%
  • Increased PE conversion in IT (overall) by over 400%
  • Drove MDR margins from low 30% to more than 90%

Sales and Marketing Partner (Director)

Highspring
Tysons Corner, VA
10.2021 - 02.2023
  • Developed targeted marketing strategies to enhance brand visibility with Private Equity exclusively
  • Closed $2mm net new with TCV more than $5 million
  • Collaborated x-functionally to align sales objectives with marketing initiatives, fully rewrote GTM motions, redefined competitive set, simplified all messaging, spoke at events
  • Analyzed market trends to identify growth opportunities; redirected lagging lift spend to two strategies only, ACG and PEI resulting in more than 500% improved ROI
  • Executed personal selling as well as leadership, booking multiyear strategic engagements with clients like Audax and HIG

Private Equity BD Director, Valuation

CBIZ
New York, NY
01.2021 - 10.2021
  • Positioned valuation as a core input into PE FP&A models, board reporting, and CFO decision-making and at both ends of a deal.
  • Designed channel strategy expanding into broader GP ecosystems based on my own network and previous work, winning clients such as Bain Capital, Double Impact Fund, and more than 12 more upper mid-market GPs

Managing Director

BVA Group
Plano, TX
08.2017 - 01.2021

Opened New York office

  • Defined and led Private Equity GTM playbook and motions nationally, across service lines
  • Led search for a Transaction Advisory Services (FDD) acquisition
  • Generated more than $3 million in a new role, inclusive of COVID

National Director, Private Equity

Grant Thornton
New York, NY
12.2012 - 09.2016
  • Led national initiatives across sales, marketing, thought leadership, cross-selling, corporate finance to grow PE business
  • Our team grew the GTUS PE revenue from $165mm to $330mm
  • Personal net new contribution $1.75 - $7.25mm per year
  • Worked with more than 150 sponsors on more than 200 deals
  • Controlled national ACG relationship and budget of $400,000

Education

J.D. - Law

Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts - Honors American Studies

Tufts University
Medford, MA

Skills

  • Strategic leadership in Private Equity GTM
  • 70/30 or 80/20 billable across ops, IT and OCFO
  • Experience with more than 400 GPs across 800 transactions
  • Solution sales training, alignment and deployment SPIN, Miller Heiman, MEDDIC, Six Sigma background (DFSS, DMAIC, etc)
  • More than $500,000,000 in EV/TCV new business won
  • New growth and turnaround orientation

Certification

  • Many sales training and optimization frameworks
  • ITIL/ISIS/NIST and numerous IT compliance/standards
  • Kaizen, Six Sigma and other related methodologies
  • SAP certifications and others
  • Not a CPA but top 2% in accounting per LinkedIn

Timeline

Senior Managing Director

Ankura Consulting Group
08.2024 - 06.2026

Senior Managing Director

E78 Partners
03.2023 - 08.2024

Sales and Marketing Partner (Director)

Highspring
10.2021 - 02.2023

Private Equity BD Director, Valuation

CBIZ
01.2021 - 10.2021

Managing Director

BVA Group
08.2017 - 01.2021

National Director, Private Equity

Grant Thornton
12.2012 - 09.2016

J.D. - Law

Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

Bachelor of Arts - Honors American Studies

Tufts University