School of Accountancy

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678.797.2674

jlarrystevens@gmail.com
lsteph21@kennesaw.edu

J. Larry Stevens recently retired (July, 2007) as a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an international accounting firm, where he led a team of transaction specialists involved in all aspects of buy-side and sell-side mergers & acquisitions, financial due diligence, valuation analysis, financial and tax structuring, and transaction advisory services. He was previously a Partner in the Corporate Finance Group in Atlanta, where he was a Member of the legacy Price Waterhouse National Corporate Finance Executive Committee, and the Partner-in-Charge of Corporate Finance for the Southeast Region. In this role, which he held from 1989, Mr. Stevens led a team of investment banking and transaction specialists involved in all aspects of selling businesses, raising capital, IPO's, valuation analysis, financial and tax structuring and corporate finance advisory services.

During his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was especially active in working with middle market companies, both public and private, and in assisting shareholders in developing and executing strategies for maximizing shareholder value. Mr. Stevens has advised on hundreds of transactions in a variety of industries including advertising, retail, television and communications, health services, oil and gas, nuclear energy, and numerous manufacturing sectors. During his last two years with PwC, Mr. Stevens worked almost exclusively with his client, GE Energy, a subsidiary of General Electric, leading acquisition and divestiture teams and advising on transactions in both service and manufacturing sectors of the business.

Mr. Stevens started his career with Price Waterhouse in 1970 and was admitted to the partnership in 1981 as an Audit Partner. Prior to July 1989, he was Partner-in-Charge of the Entrepreneurial Services Group for the Atlanta office. In this capacity he had direct responsibility for audit clients with revenues ranging generally from $100 million to $1 billion. In addition to examinations of financial statements he was responsible for advising clients on acquisition and divestiture strategies, growth initiatives, and strategies for maximizing shareholder value.

Currently, in addition to consulting with middle-market companies on acquisition and divestiture strategy, Mr. Stevens is an Executive- In-Residence at Kennesaw State University where as a member of the faculty of the Accounting Department of the Coles College of Business, he has developed a course called “The Art of the Deal” that is an elective in the MBA program. The course is a rigorous analysis of the M&A business focused on acquisition strategy, value drivers and creation, process and execution and post-deal integration. Kennesaw State is a state university located near Marietta, Georgia with approximately 22,000 students.

Mr. Stevens received a BBA from Georgia State University, and completed the Executive Program for Smaller Companies at Stanford University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Stevens has been active in civic and community affairs and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Kennesaw State University, Past-Chair of the Leadership Council of First Baptist Church of Marietta, and Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Marietta Housing Authority. He has been involved in a variety of civic and business organizations in Cobb County and is a graduate of Leadership Cobb and Leadership Georgia and is on the Board of Directors of the Georgian Club. He has held a number of board positions in the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and was Chair of the Chamber in 1991. Additionally, he is a Deacon at the First Baptist Church of Marietta where he has taught an adult Bible class for the last twenty-three years.

Mr. Stevens and his wife Lynn have lived in the City of Marietta since 1982, and have two grown children and two grandchildren. Mrs. Stevens is a practicing attorney specializing in Social Security law

Mr. Stevens can be reached at jlarrystevens@gmail.com