Maxwell B. Heller
Managing Director & M&A Advisory Practice Leader
Max is a Managing Director at Centri Business Consulting and the leader of the firm’s M&A Advisory Practice. He has more than 18 years of merger and acquisition consulting experience and provides M&A advisory services to private equity firms, venture capital firms, family offices, and strategic/corporate clients. He joined Centri in October 2022 and specializes in providing merger and acquisition advisory services for both strategic and financial buyers and sellers. Max provides value-added services such as buy-side due diligence, sell-side due diligence, sell-side consulting, sell-side readiness, buyer valuation support, and working capital analysis/support. During his career, Max has provided consulting services on over 400 transactions and has been responsible for leading all aspects of the deal process. Max has consulted on deals with enterprise values ranging from $5 million to $6 billion.
Prior to his time with Centri, Max was a Director at RSM US LLP for 7 years, where he most recently served as the Deal Strategy North American Practice Leader, specializing in providing full deal lifecycle services such as development of acquisition strategies, sell-side go to market strategy development, enterprise valuation analysis, financial modeling, drafting of marketing materials (e.g., confidential information memorandums), and deal management.
Prior to RSM, Max spent several years at KPMG and PwC in their Transaction Advisory Service Practices, providing buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence services. He also has 5 years of experience working with a financial services firm with a focus on high-net-worth individual/family wealth management, business consulting, and merger and acquisition consulting.
Max received a B.S. in Accounting from Susquehanna University. Max is also an Executive Board Member and the Treasurer of the Philadelphia chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).