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Enrique Brito
Enrique Brito CFA, AVA, CM&A

Senior Managing Director - McLean, VA

 

1660 International Drive

Suite 450

McLean, VA 22102

 

703.827.0200 ext. 110

703.827.0175 fax

ebrito@mcleanllc.com

Enrique Brito is a Senior Managing Director of The McLean Group. Mr. Brito focuses on assisting owners of privately held businesses in the middle market sector in how to measure, enhance and harvest the value in their businesses, particularly in situations involving acquisition and divestiture transactions. His primary expertise is with companies in the renewable energy, healthcare technology and wireless telecom sectors.

Mr. Brito has over seventeen years of experience in corporate finance and has been involved in transactions in the U.S. as well as in several Latin American countries including Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru. He specializes in business valuations, mergers, acquisitions, buy-outs as well as in the implementation of value enhancement programs such as operational audits, lean processes, and six sigma projects. He is also an instructor with the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts where he teaches a course titled Corporate Valuations: Theory and Applications, which is part of the association's accreditation program (awarded Instructor of Exceptional Distinction in 2003 and 2004).

Prior to joining The McLean Group, Mr. Brito was a principal and founder of Kaizen Consulting Group, LLC (KCG), a merger and acquisition advisory firm based in McLean, Virginia. Before KCG, he was director of corporate finance with COMSAT International (later merged with Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications) where he participated in merger and acquisition teams in all phases of the process performing business valuations, conducting due diligence, and negotiating final terms and conditions. He also evaluated and negotiated IT/Telecom investment opportunities and successfully implemented value enhancement programs in the company's subsidiaries in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. Before joining COMSAT, Mr. Brito was executive director with EuroCapital Corporation, a corporate finance advisory firm, where he specialized in corporate finance projects involving initiatives financed by multilateral finance institutions in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Mr. Brito holds an MBA from The American University (with honors) and a BS in Industrial And Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. He holds professional credentials as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA), and Certified Mergers & Acquisitions advisor (CM&A). Mr. Brito is a member of the CFA Institute, the Washington Society of Investment Analysts, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors and the International Business Brokers Association. He is a National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) registered representative (Series 7, 63).