Mr. Becker is a Senior Associate at Areté Capital Partners with over ten years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. As a proven leader, Mr. Becker has a wide range of financial and strategy experience, with extensive experience in both buy- and sell-side M&A, business planning/FP&A, corporate strategy, and many others.
Prior to joining Areté, Ross was a Senior Associate in the M&A group at Lincoln International. Mr. Becker served private equity firms and founder/owners covering both buy- and sell-side transactions.
Prior to joining Lincoln International, Mr. Becker was an Associate in the M&A group at Robert W. Baird, where he advised publicly traded companies and privately held businesses on mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising transactions.
Before his time at Baird, Ross worked in Strategy & Corporate Development at Magellan Health, where he led all aspects of buy-side engagements and advised Magellan’s C-Suite on seven completed transactions. Prior to Baird, Ross worked in FP&A for Cardinal Health, where he implemented and standardized financial reporting for a newly acquired business. Previously, Mr. Becker worked at Huntington Bancshares, where he developed financial ratio forecasts and comprehensive capital analysis for the bank’s first stress test submission to the Federal Reserve.
Ross holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.