Leadership
Walker Lewis, Chairman of the Board and Founder
John Reece, Managing Director, Atlanta Office
Cameron Barrett, Director, New York Office
Rob Crisci, Vice President, Atlanta Office
WALKER LEWIS
Chairman of the Board and Founder
Walker Lewis is the Chairman of Devon Value Advisers. Over the past two years, Mr. Lewis has advised clients through more than ten closed transactions, including the LBO of Jostens, Inc., the recapitalization of Codere, S.A., and several acquisitions completed by The Standard Register Co. and Roper Industries.
For 20 years, Mr. Lewis was Chairman of Strategic Planning Associates, which grew to a firm of 300 professionals specializing in shareholder value strategies. In the late 1980s, Strategic Planning Associates merged into Marsh & McLennan and Mr. Lewis served as Chairman and Chief Executive of the firm’s business consulting subsidiary Mercer Management Consulting, a firm of over 1,000 professionals.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Lewis served as President of Avon, North America, and a member of the Corporate Office of the Chairman. He has also served as a Managing Director of Kidder, Peabody and as a Senior Advisor to SBC Warburg Dillon Read. In addition to his role at Devon, Mr. Lewis also serves as Chairman of London Fog Industries, and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies. Mr. Lewis has also served on more than twenty Boards of Directors of public and private companies.
Mr. Lewis is an honors graduate of Harvard College where he was awarded a Harvard Traveling Fellowship. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs in Washington, D.C., and the Harvard Committee on University Resources.
JOHN REECE
Managing Director, Atlanta Office
John Reece II is a Managing Director at Devon Value Advisers and the leader of Devon’s Financial Advantage and Valuation practices. He is currently actively working with several publicly held companies on issues of valuation and the pursuit of Financial Advantage.
Prior to Devon, Mr. Reece was a Manager at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a member of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Goods practice areas and received awards for innovation and project management. Mr. Reece has also worked at A. T. Kearney, Mercer Management Consulting, and served as the Strategic Planner for Avon Products USA. In those roles, Mr. Reece has advised clients in a variety of industries on strategies to capture maximum shareholder value.
Mr. Reece is an honors graduate of Harvard College.
CAMERON BARRETT
Director, New York Office
Cameron Barrett has ten years of experience in Investment Banking and Consulting. Most recently, Mr. Barrett was in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley where he advised clients on Mergers and Acquisitions. His teams executed transactions with a combined Enterprise Value of over $30Bn. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Barrett’s projects for corporate clients ranged from advising on industry-transforming acquisitions to advising on the divestitures of non-core businesses with a focus always on Free Cash Flow generation per share.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Barrett was a Senior Associate at Devon. During his tenure at Devon, his assignments have included working with clients to develop value-maximizing business plans, including growth-focused plans, turnarounds, restructurings, and acquisition and divestiture strategies.
In recent months at Devon, Mr. Barrett has advised both public companies and private equity firms on pending acquisitions.
Mr. Barrett has an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with honors. While attending Columbia, Mr. Barrett was the recipient of the Financial Executive Institute’s award for excellence in Finance and Accounting and was a selected teaching assistant in Financial Accounting and Advanced Corporate Finance among other classes.
ROB CRISCI
Vice President, Atlanta Office
Rob Crisci has been with Devon Value Advisers since 1999, when he joined the New York office as an Associate. While in New York, Rob assisted our Corporate and Private Equity clients on the completion of transactions totaling well over $1B. In 2004, Rob relocated to Atlanta in order to assist in the opening of Devon’s third office. In Atlanta, Rob has worked with several corporate clients to maximize shareholder value using our proprietary valuation metric, CRI. Recently, Rob has focused on acquisition screening, divestitures, corporate restructuring and strategic planning.
In addition to his time at Devon, Rob has also held consulting and advisory positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Crisci has an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with honors.