Ted Perkins
Verified Expert in Finance
Management Consulting Expert
Los Angeles, United States
Toptal member since June 23, 2022
Ted is a former McKinsey and Company associate partner and investment banker from Wharton and MIT. He has expertise in strategy, corporate finance, and commercial due diligence, with sector expertise in high-tech industries. Ted is currently the founder of a digital learning platform called Skill Range. He has extensively hired Toptalers to build the business. Ted is a big believer in the platform and is excited to flip the script and bring his expertise to support clients.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Associate Partner
McKinsey & Company
- Advised high-tech companies in aerospace, IT, cyber, and engineering on forming corporate strategies that linked actionable actions to achieve long-term growth.
- Guided corporate subsidiaries from various aerospace, defense, and IT industries on commercial tech ventures. Honed product-market fit and built go-to-market strategies, specifically market sequencing, channel, pricing, and partnerships.
- Built dynamic financial models for companies across sectors that linked corporate performance to key value drivers and factored in uncertainty through stochastics and other statistical modeling techniques.
Associate
Newstate Partners
- Presented recommendations to senior government officials on export credit agency reorganization, bond market expansion strategies, and securities regulation reform.
- Negotiated with the governments of Brazil, France, Holland, Japan, the US, and the UK to obtain over $100 million of debt relief for an island nation.
- Trained staff and financial controllers of state-owned enterprises on debt management strategies, which reduced monthly debt service costs for certain state-owned entities by approximately 50%.
- Built financial models to support debt reprofiling and restructuring, which forecasted debt obligations and debt servicing capacity under different macroeconomic and financial assumptions.
Financial Analyst
Houlihan Lokey
- Represented foreign bondholders on the creditors' committee holding claims against an Icelandic government-controlled bank. Managed due diligence and participated in negotiations that led to clients' $2.7 billion of recovery.
- Prepared financial analyses and participated in negotiations that resulted in more than 90% debt relief for the sovereign government on $80 billion in debts owed to other governments.
- The advised sovereign government on restructuring $900 million of debt on topics including domestic creditor outreach, economic modeling, financial stability, and IMF creditor negotiation.
Education
Master of Business Administration in Business Administration
MIT - Cambridge, MA
Bachelor's Degree in Finance
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Skills
Finance
Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, Financial Modeling, Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Three-statement Modeling, Revenue & Expense Projections, Forecasting, Market Research, Pricing, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Financial Restructuring, Investment Thesis, Debt Analysis, Comparable Company Analysis, Total Addressable Market (TAM), Pricing Strategy, Startup Funding, Accounting, Debt Restructuring, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Output Software
Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel
Industry Expertise
Technology, Real Estate, Software, Apparel & Accessories, Early-stage Startups, Sportswear
Geographic Expertise
United States
Other
Finance, Growth Strategy, Commercialization, Go-to-market Strategy, Startups, Business Strategy, Business Development, Product-market Fit, Brand Strategy, Market Sizing, Customer Segmentation, Pricing Models, Business Planning, Business Plan Consulting, Investment Ideas, Competitive Analysis, Market Segmentation, Market Research & Analysis, Business Models, Pitch Decks, Business Modeling, Due Diligence, Sovereign Debt, Macroeconomic Forecasting, Geopolitical Risk, Federal Government Finance, Education, Startup Growth Strategy Development, Inorganic Growth, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis, Precedent Transaction Analysis, DCF Modeling, Distressed/Special Situations, Emerging Markets, Competitive Strategy, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Price Positioning, Management Consulting, Company Strategy, Business Consulting, Excel 365, Subscriptions, Online Media, Operations Improvement, Productivity Improvement, eCommerce, ArcGIS, Corporate Culture, Business Partnerships, Partnerships, Strategic Partnerships, Waterfall Modeling, GIS, JavaScript, Python, Educational Platform Design, SEO Tools
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