Mike Whaley is the lead for all transaction services. Mike conducts business evaluations, sets up deal structure, performs due diligence, completes financial and strategic analysis, conducts negotiations, and drafts deal documentation with support from legal counsel.

Mike received his BS degree in Accounting from Norfolk State University and completed the Harvard Graduate School Of Business Program for Management Development (PMD) in 1996.

Mike has over twenty-five years of finance, operations, and strategic planning experience in the manufacturing, electric utility, consumer products, government defence, and government intelligence industries.

Mike’s professional history includes serving as the Vice President and COO of the Commercial & Government Systems Unit of Eastman Kodak Company, as the Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Dynatec International, and as the Controller, of the Commercial Nuclear Fuel Unit of Westinghouse Electric Corp. Mike has also consulted in private practice and sits on the board of directors of a title insurance company and a commercial water treatment company, as well as on the advisory board of a start up electric energy company.

Mike has over fifteen years of domestic and international deal structuring and M&A experience, among them the leadership of Westinghouse’s bid to acquire the United States Enrichment Corporation; while at Kodak, the strategic acquisition of a Canadian enterprise; and the transactions completed and currently in process at Hayes Novus and Novus Business Services.