Steven McNaughton
Senior Managing Director, Market Intelligence - McLean, VA
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vcardSteven McNaughton is a Senior Managing Director & Partner of McLean | Markowitz | McNaughton, The McLean Group’s market intelligence and competitive analysis division. Mr. McNaughton has more than three decades’ acquisition search and business analysis experience.
In 1982, Mr. McNaughton and partner Zane Markowitz founded Markowitz & McNaughton, Inc., a specialty acquisition support and competitive analysis firm serving Fortune 1000 corporate acquisition and planning executives. By 2000, the firm had grown to 90 professionals, supporting such clients as General Electric, 3M, Philip Morris, AT&T, Cincinnati Bell, MasterCard, Grumman, Bombardier, Honeywell and Thiokol, among numerous others. Mr. McNaughton pioneered unique business analysis frameworks, ran acquisition search programs that resulted in hundreds of acquisitions, and performed competitive due diligence on thousands of acquisition targets. After Markowitz & McNaughton, Inc. was acquired in 2002, Mr. McNaughton departed in June 2004.
Mr. McNaughton previously founded and sold a mail order company and was EVP and partner at HJ Brown International, Inc. where he helped close more than 50 acquisitions and developed a competitive analysis product line the company sells to this day.
Mr. McNaughton holds a BA in journalism and public relations from Ohio University. He has served on the boards of several corporations and nonprofit organizations.