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David S. Merryfield
Founder and Managing Partner
David Merryfield is the founder and managing partner of Preferred Practice, a boutique Mergers and Acquisitions and Operational Improvement consulting firm founded in 2006, specializing in large acquisition integration, divestiture and operational improvement projects for the firm's clients. He has over 20 years of management and operational consulting experience across a variety of industries including health care, retail merchandising, financial services, and retail consumer food products. Mr. Merryfield has executed over 25 large scale business integration and divestiture projects with corresponding M&A transaction value over $10 Billion. He also has a proven track record transforming Clients' operational models and management systems using LEAN value stream principles to improve operating model scalability, efficiency and profitability. Prior to founding Preferred Practice, Mr. Merryfield joined Target corporation in 2003 as a Merchandising Strategy Analyst focusing on the development of Target's consumer grocery strategy, SuperTarget. Prior to joining Target Corporation, Mr. Merryfield worked at Deloitte (formerly Deloitte & Touche, LLP), where he provided Enterprise Risk Management consulting services to clients across multiple industries.