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Allan Hickok
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- Title
- Senior Advisor
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- Boston Consulting Group
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- http://www.bcg.com
- Restaurant Segment
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- I work at the unit level and my role is
- Other
- I work at the corporate level and my functional area is
- Other
- I work for the foodservice industry and my profession is
- Consultant
- Interests
- Buying/Selling a Business, Consulting, Finding Investors, Investing, Deals
- Biography
- Allan Hickok is an experienced Wall Street professional with over twenty five years of Capital Markets experience as a consumer focused investment banker, equity research analyst specializing in the restaurant and specialty retail food industry segments, Senior Advisor to a global management consulting firm and chain restaurant CEO. An industry veteran, Mr. Hickok has deep experience advising restaurant, food and specialty retail concepts on a wide variety of strategic, capitalization and liquidity alternatives. Client advisory experience includes development, tactical evaluation and implementation of growth strategies, public and private capital formation, financial advisory including valuation and fairness, mergers and acquisitions, corporate Wall Street positioning strategies and financial restructuring. Chain concept clients range from small startups to the largest full service restaurant chains in America. Mr. Hickok has cultivated strong relationships among public and private institutional investors active in the consumer sector.
Mr. Hickok is a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm and the worlds leading advisor on business strategy. BCG operates from over 70 offices in 41 countries and has deep restaurant and food industry experience. Most recently Mr. Hickok was the Chief Executive Officer for Redstone American Grill, a privately held upscale casual dining restaurant chain.
Prior to his current position Mr. Hickok was a Managing Director and Group Head, Restaurant Industry for Houlihan Lokey, an investment bank serving the middle market for strategic and financial advisory that also operates the largest financial restructuring practice in the country. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, in 2003 Mr. Hickok founded a successful strategic advisory consulting firm active in a wide variety of strategic, financial, corporate positioning and liquidity transactions. Prior to starting his consulting firm Mr. Hickok spent eighteen years at Piper Jaffray as an investment banker and equity research analyst and in 1991 founded the dedicated Piper Jaffray Restaurant Industry Investment Banking platform.
During his long tenure as a Piper Jaffray Managing Director, Mr. Hickok was widely acknowledged within the restaurant industry and by institutional investors as one of the most influential industry analysts in America. Mr. Hickok quarterbacked the growth of Piper Jaffray’s Restaurant Industry platform to a national level and one of the most successful practices on Wall Street. He was directly involved in the placement of almost $2 billion of public and private equity and a similar amount of merger and acquisition assignments. He is a five-time All Star Analyst as chosen by The Wall Street Journal, including Best Stock Picker and Best Earnings Accuracy multiple times, was ranked by other industry agencies and is a recipient of other honors.
Mr. Hickok is a frequent speaker at all major industry events and is consulted as an industry expert by virtually every leading industry publishing source and media outlet.
- Years in the Industry
- 25+
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