Advisory Board
Mr. Wilson’s has served in senior leadership positions, within operating companies and, as an investment banker, led some of the world’s largest telecom transactions.
From 1980 to 1988, Mr. Wilson held senior officer roles including Chief Financial Officer and Director of Imasco USA – the parent company of Hardees Food Systems and Grisanti’s. During that time, Mr. Wilson also served as Chief Executive Officer of Imasco USA Real Estate, overseeing the operations, finance and administration of more than 1,500 company restaurant and excess property locations.
After Imasco, Mr. Wilson served as Chief Financial Officer for Bell CableMedia. He later acted (while at Credit Suisse), as lead advisor to that company during its US $8 billion simultaneous merger with three UK companies and four years later the $23 billion de-merger through bifurcation.
Mr. Wilson has also served as advisor to many restaurant companies, including Burger King and I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt as well as a number of country governments. He also served as Chief Financial Officer and Board Member of Source Perrier’s foods group in the US from 1988 through 1989.
On Wall Street, Mr. Wilson served in leadership positions at Salomon Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston. He advised companies on transformative transactions including AT&T’s acquisitions of TCI ($70 billion), Teleport ($12 billion) and MediaOne ($64 billion). He arranged debt and equity financings for his clients, including the $10 billion IPO of AT&T Wireless and advised Sprint on their unique franchise program. He conceived of and advised on the simultaneous roll-up for Carlos Slim of six Latin American communications companies resulting in America Moviles becoming the largest Pan Latin America communications company. He has also consulted to Boies, Schiller and Flexner as well as Millberg, Weiss, Bershad and Schulman as an M&A due diligence expert.
Mr. Wilson has served on a number of Boards of Directors, both public and private, in the US, the Netherlands, and the UK. He has extensive experience in foreign markets including advisories in Canada, Malaysia, Thailand, The People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong), Russia, Pakistan, Egypt, India, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, France, UK, Denmark, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, and Germany.
Mr. Wilson received a Master of Arts in Applied Economics from The Bryan School of Business and Economics of the University of N.C. at Greensboro and a Bachelors of Arts in Economics with Philosophy Minor from N.C. State University.