Deal Leader Workshop: How to Avoid the “Acquisition Graveyard”

​Why do acquisitions that clear rigorous diligence and integration planning still fail to deliver value? This workshop addresses the acquisition graveyard phenomenon—where deals that dominated leadership attention in Year 1 drift into zombie status by Year 3, consuming resources while delivering diminishing returns. By Year 4, someone asks: "Whatever happened to that acquisition?"

​​Gwen Pope and Kison Patel will guide participants through Tiger Team M&A's frameworks using real deal scenarios. Attendees will work through a Graveyard Acquisition Audit in a hands-on sandbox environment, applying Tiger Team M&A’s platform and framework to assess real-world deal scenarios, discuss value-creation diagnostics, and take away actionable tools to adapt for their own deal portfolios.

​​This is a practitioner lab, not a lecture. It is designed for Corp Dev Leaders, Integration Leads, and M&A Strategy Teams who are responsible for post-close value capture. It's especially relevant if your organization is an active or serial acquirer with deals that are 12+ months post-close.

​​Promo code for the companion self-paced course on the M&A Science Intelligence Hub will be provided to all registered attendees.

​​About the Speakers:

​​Gwen Pope is the founder of Tiger Team M&A, bringing 20+ years experience in enterprise M&A, in corporate development, integration management, and M&A advisory leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, eBay, and other serial acquirers. She is currently CEO and co-founder of Tiger Team M&A, a vertical AI solution provider enabling repeatable deal ROI through M&A operational excellence.

​​Kison Patel is the Founder & Chief Scientist at M&A Science, where he's standardizing buy-side M&A by turning operator experience into repeatable operating standards—playbooks, templates, and role-based execution tracks that help deal teams move from diligence to value capture with fewer surprises.