Kathleen is a Managing Director in our New York office having joined JEGI LEONIS in 2017. She has over 20 years of experience specializing in M&A advisory across the business-to-business and consumer media, events and marketing services sectors, with expertise in content and information, trade shows, conferences, digital media and marketing, and the outsourced services that support these businesses.

Prior to joining JEGI LEONIS, Kathleen served as a Managing Partner at Drake Star Partners. Before that, she led the media and marketing services practice at Berkery Noyes and previous to that led the B2B practice at Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Kathleen has been instrumental in the successful completion of more than 100 transactions, including deals involving Clarion, Informa, Closerstill, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, Emerald Expositions, and many other prominent organizations as well as PE funds.

Kathleen received her BA in Architecture from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her MBA from Baruch College. She is a certified FINRA representative.