Why Cynthia Meyn?
Cynthia is a seasoned, independent COO who has a deep track record executing infrastructural strategies for large financial service companies. Her private equity transactions include global asset managers, broker-dealers, insurance, banking, payments, and fintech. Her executive background includes service as a CTO, CRO and COO for global financial services firms. Cynthia has led stand-ups, vendor synergy projects, on-shore/off-shore operations conversions, distribution platform overhauls, and cloud-first technology separations and migrations, among other initiatives. An expert on the ecosystem of Wall Street, her knowledge allows Cynthia to facilitate growth, increase margins and streamline operations.
Transaction Phases
From initial modeling and identification of deal synergy opportunities, through post-settlement optimization, Cynthia's expertise in every step of the process brings confidence as Buyers come to the closing table. Here's how:
Stand-Up Services
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Lead planning and execution of stand-up NewCo across HR, Finance, Insurance, Marketing, Legal, Technology, Operations, etc. by closing date. Negotiation of the TSA and Reverse TSA terms and conditions, itemized services schedule, durations and costs. Negotiation of vendor expenses within budgeted costs. Lead implementation infrastructure for regulatory compliance of NewCo.
Facilitating TSA Exits
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Lead the exit of TSAs timely, accurately, and cost-effectively through implementation of NewCo infrastructure. Organize vendor workstream and negotiate vendor contracts across all services. Negotiation of escalated issues with the Seller and/or vendors. Migrate infrastructure strategically into modern, lightweight, cloud-first computing infrastructure.
Mergers and Whole Entity Acquisitions
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Streamline and optimize merged entities by way of technology, shared service synergies, and vendor consolidation. Improve EBITA through bidding out corporate insurance, restructuring benefits, renegotiating vendor contracts, cancelling redundant services, offshore outsourcing, functional centralization, real estate strategies and scaled vendor partnerships.
Featured Deals
Variable Annuity Carve-Out
Project Indigo was founded in 2018 through a carve-out of a variable annuity legacy policy block from a larger, US-domiciled insurance company. In 2021, Indigo acquired a second block, also through a carve-out. Services included stand-up, market data negotiation, investment accounting and hedging infrastructure deployment.
