Dena Jalbert
Founder & CEO
Align Business Advisory Services
Company
Align Business Advisory Services
Cornerstone
Home Region
East Central
Class
Cornerstone Class 41
Special Designation
Lifetime Member
Areas of Expertise
Accounting & Finance, Banks and Financial Institutions, Business Development, Consulting, Entreprenuership, Growth Management, Investments, Leadership, Organizational Consulting, Organizational Development, Organizational Structure and Leadership, Small Business Consulting, Strategic Planning
Biography
Dena leverages nearly 20 years of success in building, scaling, buying, and selling businesses to accomplish her client's goals. Her career experience spans many years in "Big 4" public accounting and consulting firms, in addition to holding executive positions with Fortune 500 and hyper-growth middle market companies.
As an M&A expert, Dena has facilitated over $2 billion of buy and sell-side transactions, including acquisitions involving companies such as Visa, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Google. She has been recognized as a leader in her field, earning distinction as a rising star of M&A by M&A Advisor Magazine and one of the top 25 Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine. She and the firm have been featured in top-tier publications such as Fast Company, Inc. and Entrepreneur, and Align was named the best mid-market M&A consultancy in the Southeast for the past four years.
Dena holds a B.A. in public accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MBA from Florida State University.
As an M&A expert, Dena has facilitated over $2 billion of buy and sell-side transactions, including acquisitions involving companies such as Visa, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Google. She has been recognized as a leader in her field, earning distinction as a rising star of M&A by M&A Advisor Magazine and one of the top 25 Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine. She and the firm have been featured in top-tier publications such as Fast Company, Inc. and Entrepreneur, and Align was named the best mid-market M&A consultancy in the Southeast for the past four years.
Dena holds a B.A. in public accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MBA from Florida State University.