CURRICULUM VITAE
Mr. Mark Waddleton
Contact Information
(3100 Cleburne Houston, Texas 77004, Office room 248, waddletonm@tsu.edu)
EDUCATION
INSTITUTION
DEGREE
YEAR
FIELD OF STUDY
Prairie View A&M University
Bachelors
1995
Chemical Engineering and
Physics
Harvard Business School
Masters
2002
Master of Business Administration
A. Academic/Professional Qualifications:
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY JHJ SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | Houston, Texas
2014-Present
Visiting Professor
Courses: Leadership and Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Team Building and
Organizational Change, Principles of Marketing, Principles of Management.
LONESTAR COLLEGE | Houston, Texas 2012-Present
Adjunct Professor
Courses: Student Success, Developmental Math, Business Principles
ATHENIAN CONSULTING | Houston, Texas 2012-Present
Principal
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Advisor providing solutions to complex client challenges in the energy and oilfield
services industries. Representative engagements include:
* Drill Pipe Provider: Built business plans targeting offshore, defense, automotive,
and high pressure application end-markets.
* Drill Pipe Provider: Developed and executed strategy for raising $40 million of
equity capital for a $200 million manufacturing facility.
* Virtual Data Room Provider: Developed repositioning plan for use cases in the
energy industry.
AKZO NOBEL MARINE & PROTECTIVE COATINGS | Houston, Texas 20112012
Director, Supply Chain and Operations | North and South America
Led multi-disciplinary supply chain and operations team across several sites in North
and South America. Accountable for product quality and innovation, lean/ 5S efforts,
business process reengineering, manufacturing improvement projects, sustainability
initiatives, internal audit and compliance, and customer product complaints.
* Transitioned $140 million product acquisition, a 47% sales increase, by reallocating
resources, improving decision transparency and driving milestone accountability
successfully meeting completion date.
* Increased daily shipments 20% by implementing a $50,000 IT solution that drove a
66% cycle time reduction, doubled technician accuracy rate and improved team
effectiveness.
* Salvaged $10 million U.S. military contract by bridging internal differences to
resolve product issue in first three months with company.
* Captured $200,000 of annual cost savings, improved warehouse utilization by
engaging a contractor to collect $1.0 million aged product inventory.
* Successfully passed 6 ASQ ISO 9001:2008 audits through proactive leadership of
internal compliance activities and prompt correction of identified non-conformities
across 50 locations in Canada, Mexico and United States.
IRONSTONE ADVISORY | Houston, Texas 2009-2011
Managing Partner
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* Cultivated wireless broadband acquisition targets for a Russian telecommunications
company. Advisor to the Communications Development Center, a part of the Russian
Parliament.
* Prepared and deployed a cost improvement plan for a medical supply company that
drove 30% savings.
NATIONAL CITY BANK (acquired by PNC Financial Services) | Cleveland, Ohio
2007‐2008
Vice President
Developed and executed new business opportunities and cultivating relationships with
businesses, business owners and C‐level executives.
* Targeted and won sell-side engagements that represented 20% of an $8 million deal
fee backlog.
* Led and implemented an IT platform to sell client companies with $10 million in
revenues or less.
* Managed entire transaction process, including deal team, from origination,
valuation, modeling, pricing, structuring, negotiating and closing.
WESTERN RESERVE PARTNERS | Cleveland, Ohio 2006‐2007
Vice President
Responsibilities included leading all deal execution activities for M&A and capital
raising transactions.
* Brokered the sale/purchase agreement of 2 clients’ companies at an average of 10%
above the proposed valuation range.
* Led execution of 8 M&A and equity transactions with a cumulative valuation of
$335 million.
* Authored offering memoranda and management presentations used in sell‐side
marketing efforts.
WACHOVIA SECURITIES | Charlotte, North Carolina 2005‐2006
Senior Associate
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Advised on a variety of corporate finance strategies including initial and secondary
public equity offerings, debt recapitalizations and mergers and acquisitions which
often required authoring investor, bank, rating agency presentations and offering
memorandums.
* Authored an analysis that permitted Wachovia’s Credit Committee to approve a $50
million participation in the Natural Products Group $340 million syndicated debt
offering.
* Closed transaction deal list included $402 million Sealy Mattress Initial Public
Offering (IPO), $110 million Texas Roadhouse secondary equity offering, $488
million Springs Industries debt recapitalization.
* Influenced executive leadership to hire a $200,000+ equity analyst to cover the
newly formed Personal Care industry practice to better compete with other Wall
Street‐based investment banks.
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY | Indianapolis, Indiana 2002‐2005
Senior Financial Analyst
Responsible for evaluating, structuring and executing mergers and acquisitions, joint
ventures and partnering agreements as well as competitive intelligence on industry
players and special projects.
* Led the valuation and transaction structuring of $100 million acquisition of a Puerto
Rican manufacturing facility.
* Structured a deal that lead to the $400 million acquisition of Applied Molecular
Evolution.
* Headed a cross‐organizational strategy team in the prioritization and trade‐offs of
multi‐million dollar capital projects, rationalizing 250 projects to below 100.
BLACK & VEATCH CONSULTING ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS | Kansas City,
MO 1995‐2000
Project Engineering Manager
Registered professional engineer (P.E.) that designed oil and gas facilities for clients
in the petrochemical and energy industries. Managed projects and teams from initial
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bid award to completion, performance validation and qualification. Worked as a
project manager in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
B. Peer Reviewed Publications (past five years):
Significant professional publications
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