As an experienced turnaround consulting professional, Kevin M. Flanagan has actively assisted numerous companies to significantly improve profitability and shareholder value. Flanagan’s more than 30 years of professional experience boasts a diverse executive management background, including experience in setting and achieving strategic objectives; recruiting and leading effective management teams; overseeing operational and financial turnarounds; managing international operations and acquisitions; and establishing new marketing directions, client relations and more.

Throughout his career, Flanagan has enacted strategic and operational changes in publicly traded and closely held corporations, as well as structured and entrepreneurial environments. His industry experience includes involvement in manufacturing, printing, software, electronic instrumentation, telecommunications, automotive, biotechnology, service industries and consumer products distribution.

Before joining MorrisAnderson, Flanagan was a partner at a Chicago-based management consulting firm. As head of that firm’s Milwaukee office, he was responsible for all business development and marketing activities, and took the lead on consulting projects for clients in a variety of industries with varied ownership structures and revenue sizes. In one notably complex consulting project, Flanagan facilitated the evaluation of available strategic options for a long-standing, family owned retail bookstore that resulted in its sale and was involved in the crisis management of a large distressed convenience store operation.

Flanagan’s pre-consulting experience includes holding CEO, President, COO and CFO positions, in addition to serving as an expatriate based in Brussels, Belgium. As CEO, he led the transformation of a distressed software company from an inadequately capitalized, customer-owned organization that was approaching bankruptcy to a growth asset acquired by a private equity firm. In another situation, he transitioned a distributor of consumer products that was experiencing declining financial performance into a profitable entity that was successfully sold to a strategic acquirer.

Flanagan also secured the financial resources to start his own company, Flanagan Acquisition Company, in 2000. Through this company, he identified and evaluated nearly 60 manufacturing and professional services companies, ultimately submitting three purchase offers.

Flanagan has also held a treasurer position at Promega Corporation, a multinational molecular biology and bio-chemistry company involved in the development, production and marketing of life-science products.

Flanagan holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a comprehensive public accounting emphasis from the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire.

Please contact Kevin Flanagan at kflanagan@morris-anderson.com