Ryan C. Baker

Ryan Baker specializes in advising on mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and other capital transactions for private equity groups, corporate clients and investment banks. Mr. Baker has more than 20 years of experience advising companies in the technology, healthcare and retail industries, as well as clients involved in the manufacturing and distribution of industrial products and consumer goods.

Mr. Baker has advised on the buy-side and sell-side of all transaction types and structures — including mergers, majority and minority equity stakes, auction and noncompetitive processes, and debt issuances — with enterprise valuations ranging from $10 million to $2 billion. His transaction expertise comprises financial due diligence, quality of revenue and earnings, working capital analyses, maintenance vs. growth capital expenditures analysis, and free-cash-flow modeling, as well as advice concerning purchase agreement language and schedules. He has worked on more than 100 transactions, including transactions involving multinational entities with complex intercompany transactions, consolidations and multiple currencies.

Mr. Baker conducts reviews and analyses of business financial models and projections and advises on office of the CFO transformation and improvement initiatives. He brings significant experience consulting on accounting procedures, practices and methods, chart of accounts, internal controls, KPI financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and nonworking capital optimization.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Baker was a Director in RSM’s Transaction Advisory practice in San Francisco and a key member of its sell-side practice.

Mr. Baker holds an M.B.A. from Drexel University and a B.S. in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association for Corporate Growth’s San Francisco chapter.