Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions LexisNexis Group.
Michael Frankel has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions for LexisNexis Group since January 2008. He has global responsibility for all corporate development and M&A activities and is based in the New York headquarters.
Michael is a senior strategy and corporate development executive with experience several sectors including market research and data analytics, B2B content and data, enterprise software and consumer finance. He has deep expertise in acquisitions, equity and venture investing,strategy, product development and international expansion. He has led initiatives and transactions, deploying over $10B in capital, and driving strategic expansion at several Fortune 500 companies.
Before joining LexisNexis, Michael served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Information Resources Inc. (IRI). Reporting to the CEO and Chairman, Frankel was responsible for all strategic transactions including acquisitions, equity investments, divestitures, strategic partnerships and corporate strategy.
Prior to IRI Michael was Vice President Business Development at GE Capital’s consumer finance group, at VeriSign, as Vice President Corporate Development—where he led one of the ten most acquisitive corporate development teams in the technology sector—and later served as Vice President and General Manager of their Directory Services group. Michael was also Vice President Investment Banking with Merrill Lynch and a Corporate Associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Michael also serves on the advisory board to FortiusOne (a geo-data and visualization company) as well as on the Alumni Board of Governors of the University of Chicago.
During his career Michael has led and closed more than 100 transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures and alliances. In addition, he has authored three books and several articles on M&A. Michael earned a BA in Political Science, an MA in International Relations, an MBA, and a Juris Doctorate—all from the University of Chicago.