Anthony Steward
Verified Expert in Finance
Finance Expert
Anthony has an insight into the tensions between capital and ops, board and management, and theory and practice. He's worked in corporate finance and PE and built, run, and sold a business. Lessons learned through mistakes in capital misallocation, strategic exuberance, and organizational design have given him insights into preventing or dealing with the same errors in other businesses. Anthony has wrestled with these mistakes' impact professionally and personally.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
Expertise
Work Experience
M&A Advisor
Self-employed
- Executed a complex corporate restructuring in the retail fuel industry aimed at exiting a shareholder while separating the interests of the remaining shareholders.
- Provided CFO advisory services. Restructured the business's operating cost structure saving upwards of 20%.
- Carried out detailed due diligence on a retail fuel client on behalf of a private equity consortium and designed an attractive entry point.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Medicare Health
- Built a retail healthcare business from three retail pharmacies doing $3 million in revenue to 50 retail pharmacies, 48 nurse-led clinic operations, and a pioneering health technology business doing over $80 million in revenue.
- Led over 15 acquisitions, delivering over $30 million in revenue, at an average EBITDA multiple of ±2.5x, and ultimately oversaw the sale of our business to the largest retail pharmacy group in 2021 in South Africa.
- Drove a successful corporate and organizational restructure through COVID-19, 10 times more EBITDA, and ultimately positioning the business for sale.
- Designed and developed the integrated data environment, enabling the cross-analysis of over 500 thousand individuals’ retail pharmacy behavior with their healthcare records enabling more than 1,000 workers to improve healthcare outcomes for patients.
Investment Manager
Spinnaker Growth Partners
- Led and participated in over 20 deal processes from origination through to execution.
- Led the $3 million deal process to acquire Spinnaker’s healthcare platform at a 4x EBITDA multiple.
- Originated the deal and structured the $2.5 million leveraged buyouts (LBO) solution for the acquisition of Spinnaker’s food platform.
Graduate Trainee
KPMG UK
- Worked on a €1.5 billion SPV valuation project for Deutsche Bank. Led the development of mortgage liquidity and solvency model for two UK-based SPVs, enabling the SPVs' Boards to determine the SPVs' viability.
- Contributed to the technical valuation advisory to Deutsche Bank. Valued mark-to-market equity index options by reconstructing pricing models and sourcing independent inputs, and providing the client with third-party verification of specific balance sheet exposure.
- Completed due diligence for HBOS. Led team of four in the due diligence of Bank of Scotland (BOS) subsidiary, Birmingham Midshires (BM), and for BOS integration into Lloyds TSB Group.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
INSEAD Business School - Fontainebleau, France
Bachelor's Degree in Business Science and Finance
University of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa
Skills
Finance
Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Cost Efficiency, Due Diligence, Private Equity, Valuation, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Valuation Analysis, Capital Raising, Growth Capital Raising, P&L Forecasting, CFO, M&A (Buy-side), Deal Analysis, Revenue & Expense Projections, Accounting, Reverse Mergers, Debt Restructuring, Asset Valuation, Bank Covenants, Debt Raises, Taxation, Bank Debt Raises, Fundraising, Budgeting, Budget Controls, Capital Budgeting, Financial Reporting
Output Software
Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides
Data & Analysis Software
Tableau
Other
Business Strategy, Finance, Operations, Analytics, Deal Execution, Financial Controls & Processes, Deal Closure, Term Sheets, Financing, Projects, Excel 365, Word 2016, Sales Forecasting, P&L Management, Modeling, Interim CFO, Business Models, Business Modeling, Business Planning, M&A Pipeline Management, Budget Modeling, Organizational Design, Six Sigma Processes, General Management, Economics, Data, Team Restructuring, Corporate Restructuring, Supply Chain, Team Building, Shareholder Return, Treasury & Liquidity Management, Deal Sourcing, Term Sheet Negotiations, Negotiation, Deal Structuring, Debt Financing, Pitch Decks, Pitch Presentations, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Plan Consulting, SaaS, Budget Management, Annual Reports, Annual Budgets, Tax Accounting, Sales, Contract Drafting, Regulatory & Tax, Labor Contract Management, Corporate Legal, Audits, Pitch Deck Consultant
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