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Kevin White – Founder & Managing Director of Exbo Group
Kevin White co-founded Exbo Group in 2017. He has been the acting chief financial officer of over 20 growth stage companies including Whiteboard Advisors and Pinhook Bourbon. Kevin brings 15+ years of experience in M&A advisory, venture capital, and growth stage operations. He specializes in software, education technology, business services, and consumer products. Prior to Exbo, he worked as a Strategy Consultant at Ernst & Young where he supported large, multinational companies in M&A; most recently he worked on the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont. During his tenure at EY he advised C-Suite executives, including the CFO of Morgan Stanley and the CEO of Bank of New York Mellon Markets, in areas of growth, restructuring, and analytics. Kevin also worked at Rethink Education, a Venture Capital firm, where he advised their portfolio companies during Series A fundraising. Kevin earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Financial Analysis from Lehigh University, and a BS in Finance and Accounting from Lehigh University. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. Amar Bhide – Author of Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known
Amar Bhidé is a Professor of Health Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Professor of Business Emeritus at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has researched and taught about innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance for over three decades. Bhidé is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founding member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia, and a founding editor of Capitalism and Society. He is the author of A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy; The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World; The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses; and Of Politics and Economic Reality. He has written numerous articles for the Harvard Business Review; The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; the Financial Times; and Project Syndicate.