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Will Powell

Advisory Managing Director, Transaction Strategy, KPMG US

New York
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Will Powell

Advisory Managing Director, Transaction Strategy

Will is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Strategy practice with a focus on the Travel, Leisure, and Hospitality sector. While at KPMG, Will has advised clients through growth strategy, performance improvement, transformations, and across the transaction lifecycle, from commercial and operational due diligence to post-close integration and separation execution. Will has experience across many Travel, Leisure, and Hospitality sectors, including lodging and gaming (land-based, sports betting, igaming, lottery, iLottery, social gaming). Will graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder before earning his MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Professional and Industry Experience

  • Led carve-out planning and execution for digital gaming and sports betting segment from the lottery and land-based segments of global game developer
  • Supported Private Equity fund through buyside carve and standup planning for the separation of a lottery business from the gaming business
  • Led planning for the separation of digital gaming and sports betting from land-based gaming and lottery for global game developer
  • Led the design and economic modelling of a centralized loyalty program that integrated hotel, gaming, café, and e-commerce segments for global hotel, casino, and F&B brand
  • Led the integration of European all-inclusive resort brand into a global hotel chain
  • Led the integration of midscale brand acquisition into larger global chain
  • Led pre-close synergy modelling and planning for Private Equity’s buyside carve and integration with existing PortCo
  • Led market entry strategy development for leading Asian leisure brand
  • Led the integration of a major hotel chain’s acquisition of ultra-luxury brand; supported operating model development, integration roadmap design, system rationalization and integration, go-to-market approach, and property-level cutovers
  • Supported hospitality client through the carve and spin of its managed hotels business, containing more than 320 properties, into a Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”), and the subsequent sale of its management business
  • Partnered with CFO to diligence competing term sheets for the outsourcing of the hotel management function
  • Led the development of a COVID-19 recovery model to forecast the return of passenger arrivals and hotel occupancy for target markets

Representative Client Experience

IGT, Scientific Games, Brookfield, Hard Rock International, Atlantis Bahamas, Seminole Gaming and Casinos, Virgin Hotel Las Vegas, Choice Hotels, InterContinental Hotel Group, La Quinta Inns and Suites, CorePoint Lodging REIT, G6 Hospitality, Wyndham Hotel Group, Frosch Travel Services, Blackstone

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