Allan Koivo

Allan Koivo specializes in IT transformation, assessment, strategic planning and implementation. Mr. Koivo delivers organic growth through innovation and inorganic growth through acquisition.

Mr. Koivo advises both strategic and private equity M&A clients to achieve shareholder value, with deep experience in IT integration planning, IT procurement, buy-side and sell-side IT and operational due diligence, strategic planning, corporate divestitures and post-close planning. He has served companies in technology, media and telecommunications, financial services, private equity, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, life science/healthcare, consumer and industrial products, as well as aerospace and defense industries in North America, Asia and Europe.

Mr. Koivo’s experience includes large-scale program management, project management offices (“PMO”) and integration management offices (“IMO”), business process optimization, requirements identification, IT strategy development, operations execution and IT governance. He has led and performed more than 400 IT transactions for both strategic and private equity clients, including leading IMOs and PMOs, conducting analysis of IT strategy, IT organization and operating models, IT spend analysis, IT infrastructure, back-office applications and functional applications.

Relevant Experience:

• Led and performed more than 400+ IT due diligence efforts for both strategic and private equity clients, including both full-buy and carve-out transactions
• Performed as the IT PMO lead for the private equity firm carve-out planning of $2.1 billion life sciences business
• Conducted IT due diligence, led the PMO and developed strategy for the IT carve-out and integration of two acquired industrial manufacturing companies for a private equity client
• Led integration planning and execution of sales and marketing IT applications and systems for the merger of a Fortune 100 satellite-based media and entertainment firm and a Fortune 100 media and telecommunications provider
• Led IT carve-out planning for a life sciences client’s spinoff of a $7 billion business unit