Steven Ramirez

Steve’s expertise focuses on effective management and communication strategies for mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate strategy initiatives. His merger work has spanned areas such as integration program management, acceleration of revenue post-merger, ERP and Finance, customer and press communications, employee engagement, cultural integration and executive coaching.

Expertise

Mergers and acquisitions strategy, M&A integration, corporate management strategy, customer communications, business planning and process development, strategic marketing, executive coaching

Highlights

Supported several strategic initiatives for Wells Fargo including partnering with over 20 lines of business to help launch and sustain projects around the One Wells Fargo initiative and creating customer communications for the Wachovia acquisition.

Co-founder of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Integration Gurus, a professional association of the merger integration executives from leading Bay Area companies including Cisco, Google, and Microsoft.

Formerly an executive with Time Warner, responsible for creating and successfully implementing corporate development strategies.

Currently writing a book about postmerger integration best practices.

Education

BA and MBA from UC Berkeley.

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Snapshot

Steven Ramirez

What inspires your work?

I’m driven by the desire to do better than the last time; I always want to move the bar a notch higher. This encourages me to think about how to build upon my previous experiences and to fully use the contributions of others. As a management consultant, this is probably why I think it is critical to identify and capture best practices. It also may explain the excitement I feel when I start working on a new project, particularly one with audacious challenges.

What do you love doing in your spare time?

I love the experience of watching a movie in a theater with a packed audience. Film is incredibly powerful as a public medium and there is nothing like a good story to remind us of the universality of human emotions. But, I’m not a film snob! My tastes run the gamut from big-budget action films to hand-crafted indies.

Where would you like to go that you haven't been?

I’m incredibly fortunate to have had an international career that has enabled me to travel widely. Still at the top of my travel list is Jerusalem. It was one of the epicenters of modern civilization and today perseveres as a crossroads, and a flashpoint. I’d like to walk into antiquity and look for the signs that the future might be brighter.

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