Michael Ragano

Michael Ragano

Partner, Novo Advisors

Michael Ragano is a Partner with Novo Advisors and has over 15 years specializing in performance improvement, restructuring, turnarounds, and mergers & acquisitions. Michael offers assistance to clients facing an array of challenges across a variety of industries including horticulture, manufacturing, distribution, publishing, consumer products and fundraising.

Michael offers critical assistance to under-performing companies, in crisis, or healthy with underperforming divisions. He has relevant experience including, but not limited to, business plan development, evaluation, and execution; liquidity assessments, including the construction of 13-week cash flow projections and implementation of cash conservation efforts; implementing operational and financial restructurings; bankruptcy planning and evaluation efforts; identification and disposition of non-core assets; cost-reduction and other performance improvement efforts; and managing creditor and key constituent communications.

Before Novo, Michael was an Operations Manager at McMaster-Carr Supply Company’s Chicago distribution center focusing on their order fulfillment and assembly/packing operations. Prior to McMaster, Michael was an Associate at Wynnchurch Capital focused on control equity investments in middle-market companies.

Michael holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois. He is an active member of the local chapter of the Turnaround Management Association and Secured Finance Network.

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