BK&Co. is a strategic, value-creation based consulting firm headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida. BK&Co., founded by Bina Kalola, harmonizes her professional experiences, expertise, and passion for growing and transforming businesses. Successful strategy must be led by C-Suite executives and decision makers. BK&Co. collaborates with these executives to break through the … Read more
Area of Expertise: M&A
Stacy J. Kanter
Stacy J. Kanter is an Independent Board Director and former Head of the Global Capital Markets practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Under Ms. Kanter’s leadership, the Capital Markets business nearly doubled, and the practice significantly enhanced its position as a market and thought leader, including being named … Read more
Denise F. Keane
Denise Keane is the principal of D. Keane LLC, and is a public speaker and advisor on risk, litigation and regulatory management, governance, and a broad range of diversity and leadership topics. Until July 2017, she was Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Altria Group, Inc., where she led … Read more
Laurie B. Keating
Laurie is an enterprise-wide, strategic leader with entrepreneurial insights and three decades of executive management, Board and Board counselling experience in diverse settings. She has expertise in M&A, business development, finance, governance, quality, government affairs, compliance, and human resources, in addition to business law, intellectual property and litigation.
She served … Read more
Deborah A. Golden
Deborah A. Golden is an independent board director, corporate advisor and senior executive with over 25 years of experience leading businesses. She currently serves on the board of directors of Midland States Bancorp, Inc., a publicly-held, community-based financial holding company, where she is the Chair of the Compensation Committee. Ms. … Read more
Ashley C. Gould
Ashley C. Gould has over two decades of professional experience, during which she has been a member of executive teams of private and public companies in the technology and life sciences fields, advisor to emerging companies as well as investment funds and a member of not-for-profit boards.
As a trusted … Read more
Laurel Grammig
Laurel Grammig is Vice President, Secretary, and Chief Corporate Counsel of Brown & Brown, Inc., a public, highly decentralized insurance intermediary organization, where she is part of the Senior Leadership team. Since 1994, when she joined as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, the company’s annual revenues have grown from … Read more
Alyce C. Halchak
Alyce is a highly-experienced and sought-after business counselor and advisor to companies and boards of directors with a principal focus in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, governance, internal investigations, tax, and executive compensation. She has led teams of lawyers and business executives in multi-party acquisitions, and is … Read more
Ann Harlan
Ann Harlan has extensive business and legal experience in consumer products and manufacturing business segments and has a reputation as a trusted advisor in the Boardroom. In her board appointments on both public and private company boards, she has led strategic planning initiatives and c-suite succession planning.
Since 2009, Ann … Read more
Nesa E. Hassanein
Nesa E. Hassanein grew up on Long Island in New York, one of five siblings. Her father immigrated to the United States from Egypt and her mother was from the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Kentucky. Both her parents instilled in her the importance of having a dream and believing that … Read more