About this episode

Four integration leaders discuss effective M&A integration technology and common pitfalls.

Jim Buckley, VP M&A Integration at Coursera | Todd Manley, VP of Corp Dev Integration at Intel | Carey Pugh is Sr. Director, M&A Corporate Integration at Ansys | Mahesh Ganesan, Sr. Director, M&A Integration at UKG Four integration leaders from Intel, Coursera, Ansys, and UKG debate what integration technology actually delivers versus what creates expensive overhead and where the real value leaks are. Todd Manley, Jim Buckley, Carey Pugh, and Mahesh Ganesan bring decades of deal experience to a conversation with no presentations and no curated answers. What You'll Learn Why the diligence-to-integration handoff keeps failing and what actually fixes it How to evaluate integration technology without getting sold on complexity Where AI is genuinely useful in integration today and where it is not How to right-size your integration effort across multiple simultaneous deals Why knowledge loss is the biggest value leak in M&A and what to do about it How to handle post-close direction shifts when the acquired team changes course Why post-mortems matter and why most integration teams never run them If you're running integration without a clear line between your workstreams…

People in this episode

Host: Kison Patel

Guests: Jim Buckley, Todd Manley, Carey Pugh, Mahesh Ganesan

Topics covered

• M&A Integration
• Integration Technology
• Value Leakage
• Post-Mortems
• AI in Integration
• Knowledge Loss

Keywords

• M&A
• Integration
• Technology
• AI
• Value Leakage
• Post-Mortem
• Knowledge Loss

Sponsors

DealRoom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coursera, Intel, Ansys, UKG

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