Global CEO Excellence Awards 2020

CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2020 27 , M&ACEOof the Year (USA): J. CraigDickens As a leading Boutique Investment Bank, JD Merit & CO. draws on extensive knowledge and experience to assist clients with exit planning, valuation and value enhancement services as well as capital raising activities through its subsidiary broker dealer. As a partner in CDI Global with fifty offices in thirty countries, JD Merit & CO. also assists multi-national companies with acquiring strategic middle- market firms all over the world. With a local service mentality and global reach, JD Merit & CO. provides distinctive advantages for middle-market clients and large acquirers alike. A company such as this requires leadership of the highest quality, and JD Merit & CO. has that in abundance thanks to CEO Mr. Craig Dickens. Mr. Dickens is an experienced entrepreneur, certified mergers and acquisitions advisor, investment banker, and angel investor. He has been personally responsible for setting the firm’s vision at such lofty heights, and then seeing his team achieve that vision time after time. Throughout the years, Mr. Dickens has created a culture of boutique personalized service and recruited experienced and excellent people to build the JD Merit & CO. team both nationally and internationally. During his career, Mr. Dickens has not only advised many leading companies, but also participated in and chaired several middle-market company boards. Mergers, acquisitions, capital raising, and strategic advisory services are some that businesses absolutely have to get right, so there is no roomfor error. Rather, firms can employ the services of JDMerit &CO., a leading boutique investment bank providing all these services andmore to entrepreneurs andmiddle-market companies across theUnited States. However, the firm is also successful thanks to thework of its experienced CEO, Mr. Craig Dickens.We take a look at both followingMr. Dickens’ success in this years’ Global CEOExcellence Awards. Jun20021 Having participated in virtually every kind of business dynamic, from start-up to IPO, merger to an acquisition, Mr. Dickens diligently serves his clients by guiding them towards a strategic path of rapid growth, business optimizations, and profitable exit based on his experience. This experience is vital in ensuring that the results for JD Merit & CO.’s clients are exactly what they desire, encompassing entrepreneurial creativity, tenacity, and out-of-the-box strategic marketing and structures not offered by large corporate banks. Whether arranging a business sale, negotiating a merger or acquisition, raising capital, or pursuing strategic ventures, JD Merit & CO. and Mr. Dickens are wholly focused on getting business owners the win they deserve. During his tenure at JD Merit & CO., Mr. Dickens has implemented an entrepreneurial spirit in his team, ensuring that they know that extracting premium value for clients requires integrity, intelligence, insight, instinct, and intensity. As a result, the team at JD Merit & CO. is more tenacious in its deal-making than its competitors, having arranged billions of dollars in transaction value over the past twenty years. Together, these key attributes ensure the clients’ success when it comes to acting at the negotiating table, regardless of the type of deal being proposed. Mr. Dickens’ democratic leadership style enables his team to know how important feedback is, and that feedback can drive employees to work at their highest calibre. Launching and growing a small company into a successful endeavour always comes with challenges, but mostly it comes with knowing how to strategically act during any given situation. Along with his capable partners and leadership team, Mr. Dickens is responsible for setting the firm’s vision, creating a culture of boutique personalized service, and recruiting experienced and excellent people to build the JDM team nationally and internationally. As he looks to the future, Mr. Dickens is set on ensuring that JD Merit & CO. can build on what has been accomplished and take further steps in development. There is nothing to stop this principled firm, and its ambitious CEO from taking the industry by storm and making a lasting impact to businesses everywhere. Company: JD Merit & CO. Contact: J. Craig Dickens Website: www.jdmerit.com