EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
General Counsel :: Chief Financial Officer :: Corporate Development Executive
Trevor Cox delivers global strategy development, rapid execution, and business-wide restructuring for startups, VC/PE portfolio companies, Fortune 1000, and top Silicon Valley companies and law firms.
He has fundamentally transformed the corporate development strategic functions at companies by combining cross-discipline expertise with an ability to create winning advantages and tremendous differentiated value. He holds unique know-how to foster relationships, develop funding, enable international expansion, align strategic transformation and lead M&A to position for hold, sale, or exit.
Trevor is synonymous with aligning vision and leading execution teams to increase performance, create new revenues, and drive extraordinary hyper-growth. He has held leadership roles as CFO, Chief Legal Counsel, and Corporate Development Executive. He has a JD and MBA from Berkeley and Columbia Universities.
KEY CAREER SUCCESSES
+ Drop in Media: Built partnerships to create tens of millions in startup revenue.
+ Crowdcast: Developed strategic relationships to drive startup through M&A exit.
+ Brocade: Transformed and grew company from $500M to $2B+ company.
+ Guavus: Two M&A transactions, diversifying the company into new market TAMs.
+ DataCloud: Build out G&A function for startup and raise $16M in funding
ARTICLES BY TREVOR
Business Development = Exit Planning
Most startups and emerging companies miss the opportunity for effective exit planning by not integrating exit planning into their business […]
Knowing When to Sell
Every startup begins with aspirations of being “the next” Google or Facebook or Amazon. This unbridled optimism is what drives […]
Focusing on Value Creation in M&A
50–90% of all Merger & Acquisition deals fail.1 The root cause is fairly simple: the M&A industry is focused on […]
A New M&A Role: Deal Manager
M&A deals are normally run like football team without a coach. Each specialist has a particular skill set, but each […]
M&A: Optimizing for Value Creation
With M&A, most companies are focused on deal execution, and not enough time is spent on value creation. In fact, […]
The Masters Of Strategy: Lawyers?
Are lawyers the real masters of strategy? Maybe not from a substantive standpoint, but the legal analytical process appears to […]