I’ve Acquired 50 Businesses in My Career – Here’s What I Learned

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Arturo Henriquez

Principal Managing Partner at PLA Ventures LLC | Spring, Texas

Arturo has been an Entrepreneur, M&A Principal, a sought after Consultant/Coach, 2-time Bestselling Author, and Public Speaker with over 25 years of experience in M&A, Leadership, Change Management and Emotional Intelligence. He has been involved in well over 130 business purchases, transactions, engagements, and business deals.

Arturo has successfully started, bought, and sold over 55 national and international companies across 18 industries from his personal portfolio, primarily in the small business space and, in some cases, with operating partners. He has bought restaurants, started a tequila company, a consumer goods export company, a technology company, bars and nightclubs, a pest control company, fast food restaurants, real estate brokerages, a steel fabrication company, franchises, a wholesale distributor, a data center, a loan servicing company, a logistics company, an importer and distributor of electrical appliances, an oil and gas company, a theater production, a professional soccer game, and a senior living management company, among others. These have all been done for his personal portfolio and, in many cases, without using his own capital.

Arturo has raised money from angel investors as well as millions of dollars from venture capital funds such as Merrill Lynch Venture Capital, CVC Latin America, Citibank’s venture capital arm, and the Explorador fund in Silicon Valley. His experience also includes taking a company public on the U.S. stock market and being involved in corporate takeovers as an entrepreneur. He has raised millions of dollars from banks, asset-based lending institutions, and angel investors – all for his portfolio companies previously mentioned.

Arturo has worked at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, and KPMG as managing director of their mergers and acquisitions division where he was involved in over 60 deals. As a professor he has taught courses in Investment Analysis, Corporate Finance, and Capital Administration at graduate and undergraduate levels.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Double Masters in International Relations and Communications from Boston University.

Arturo’s specialty areas include M&A, Leadership Development, Change Management, Emotional Intelligence, and Entrepreneurship.

Details about his extensive experience can be found on his websites:

• www.arturohenriquez.com
• www.businessactionnow.com

His many areas of sub-specialties encompass organizational development, financial management, planning, analysis, and operations with Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups; IPOs; debt and cost restructuring; budgeting; sales management; strategic planning; forecasting; accounting and auditing; business development; procurement; strategic sourcing; turnarounds, acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations; relocation; corporate and international experience; and strategic assessments, as well as other sub-specialty areas.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturohenriquez