Bret Andersen, MBA
Principal Consultant
Belmont, CA
Bret Andersen is a Principal Consultant at Kestrel Partners with 20 years of international experience at Fortune 500 technology companies. He is an expert in managing M&A, divestiture, strategic alliance, and equity transactions, and has deep experience managing multi-national, cross-functional teams across the full corporate development lifecycle.
At Philips Electronics, Bret successfully executed a $150M joint venture in Asia between Philips and a leading Taiwanese wireless module supplier. At Hewlett-Packard, he managed M&A transactions and developed acquisition integration and divestiture processes and manuals used across the company's global operations, and managed global service solutions for HP's largest international customers while based in Europe.
Bret also helped create a revolutionary voice recognition solution for the logistics industry in partnership with Oracle at a Belgian startup, bringing together engineering, product, and commercial teams across borders.
His program experience spans voice recognition, wireless, components, software, and IT services sectors, and he is an expert at driving alignment across finance, legal, HR, IT, and operations teams on complex international transactions.
