Management Medical Device

JOSHUA WELLS

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Atlanta, GA ***38 - 7005

+1-770-***-**** / **********@**.***

EXPERIENCE

BARCLAYS CAPITAL Aug 2010-Aug 2012

Director, European Head of Industrials, Consumer, Retail and FIG Leveraged Finance

London

• Head of a team of six Investment Bankers in European Leverage Finance at Barclays Capital

• Executed leveraged debt financings for financial sponsors and corporate clients in Industrials, Consumer,

Retail and Financial Institutions to support acquisitions, refinancings and general funding requirements

• Key lead transactions include Rexel’s $500m inaugural US$ high yield bonds; CVC’s acquisition of

Ahlsell with ca. SEK10bn financing, PAI’s acquisition of Swissport with SFR750m of high yield bonds;

Blackstone’s EUR900m acquisition of Mivisa with ca. EUR500m of financing; GBP250m high yield

bonds for Taylor Wimpey and EUR350m high yield bonds for R&R Ice Cream

DEUTSCHE BANK 2001- 2010

Vice President/Director, Leveraged Finance (2005 – 2010)

London

Associate/Vice President, Leveraged Finance (2001 – 2005)

New York

Skills and experience

• Executed more that 30 significant leveraged finance transactions including senior debt, second lien,

mezzanine and high yield bond deals across a broad range of industries

• Experience in leveraged buyout, stapled financing, corporate acquisition, refinancing, recapitalization,

exit financing, amendment, waiver and cross border structures; broad M&A and industry experience

• Expertise in business and deal team management, financial statement analysis, financial modeling, due

diligence, credit analysis, documentation and legal and accounting issues

• Core team member in a 2008-2009 review of bank lending practices with responsibility for review of

global lending business client selection and portfolio monitoring

• Implemented changes to lending organization with formation of the Global Lending Group (GLG) in fall

2009 responsible for lending origination, execution, business selection, loan portfolio risk management

and workout as well as leveraged finance risk management and business selection

• Promoted 1Q 2010 to GLG Head Lending Origination and Acquisition Finance Asia splitting time

between London and Hong Kong

Franchise development and leadership

• Leveraged Finance Staffer – New York (2004 / 2005) – responsible for deal team staffing, resource

management, performance reviews, training & development, senior management reporting and feedback

• Leveraged Finance Resource Director – London (2006 / 2007) – staffing deal teams and weekly meetings

with Leveraged Finance & Financial Sponsors Group Heads to plan pipeline and resource allocation

• Selected to lead talent development initiatives as a member of the Talent Development Committee for the

head of Global Banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa

• Active in formal campus recruiting programs; formerly responsible for all off-cycle junior recruiting and

hiring in London leveraged finance group; led a “mentoring circle” for junior bankers; Deutsche Bank

school tutoring program

BELTONE ELECRONICS / GN RESOUND GROUP 1997-2001

Project Engineer in Research & Development

Chicago, IL

• Designed and developed electronic hardware and software for medical applications

• Presented original research on digital signal processing applications to auditory problems at industry

conferences

• Completed an MBA while working

UNITED STATES PEACE CORPS 1993-1995

Peace Corps Physics / Chemistry teacher

Abomey, Benin

• Taught Physics and Chemistry in French at the upper school of Lycee Houffon – secondary school with

31 faculty member and approximately 1300 students in Abomey, Benin

• Followed French national curriculum for Premier and Terminale, equivalent to 11th, 12th and Freshman

university in the USA - Terminal students took the Baccalaureat (French university entrance exam)

• Travelled widely throughout Africa

EDUCATION

KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 2001

Master of Business Administration. Major in Finance

• Co-Founder and Co-Head of the The Managers’ Program International Club

• Led Global Initiative in Management (“GIM”) class and trip to South Africa

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1997

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering

• Full scholarship as a Research Assistant

• Developed a medical device used in human clinical trials at the University of Virginia Hospital and which

was the basis of research papers in Engineering and Audiology

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1993

Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

• Division I Track & Field team member

• Summer Internship at GREMI, a French National Physics Laboratory in Orleans, France

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