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Jon Nguyen got his first taste of M&A-related work in the early to mid-2000s when he served as the finance partner for the auto lending unit of HSBC.

\u201cIn consumer lending, you end up doing a lot of portfolio purchases rather than equity ones, but I have become more involved in the execution of deals over the past 8 years,\u201d says Nguyen, who, distinguishes the past 8 years as a standout chapter -one that has allowed him to certify his M&A credentials and enter the CFO office at Kyriba.

Turn back the clock 8 years, and Nguyen is vice president of finance for Mitchell International, a $600 million software and service business. As the company\u2019s FP&A leader, Nguyen was tasked with supplying key insights to management decision-making behind the sale of Mitchell to KKR in 2013. Meanwhile, 5 years later, Nguyen was once more in the M&A diligence mix when KKR sold Mitchell to Stone Point Capital. Along the way, Nguyen\u2019s M&A resume quickly expanded.

\u201cAt Mitchell, we were very acquisitive, and during my tenure there, we acquired 12 to 15 companies,\u201d says Nguyen, who frequently became charged with leading the integration of Mitchell\u2019s latest bounty.

In mid-2018, following the sale of Mitchell to Stone Point, Nguyen joined cloud treasury and finance solutions company Kyriba as senior vice president of FP&A. Roughly a year later, he was named Kyriba\u2019s CFO\u2014a development that came on the heels of Kyriba\u2019s sale to private equity firm BridgePoint. There\u2019s little question that Nguyen\u2019s latest career chapter has a familiar ring to it and is perhaps part of a larger M&A volume that he first started creating 8 years ago.

Says Nguyen: \u201cIt\u2019s interesting how life can take you where you belong.\u201d - Jack Sweeney