Valarie Udale
Consultant

Valerie has 15 years of corporate finance experience encompassing a broad range of roles and types of transactions. She graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in 1983 and subsequently completed a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology at Oxford University.

Between 1986 and 1995, Valerie worked in corporate finance in the City on a wide range of M&A and leveraged buyout transactions across Europe for institutions that included Charterhouse Bank and Bankers Trust. She then joined the specialist financial modelling group at Ernst & Young, where she was responsible for teams developing and reviewing complex financial models for project finance and PFI transactions, other corporate finance transactions, and business planning across a range of industry sectors.

Valerie then spent three years as a corporate finance specialist at McKinsey & Co. where she was responsible for developing a valuation model to support the book, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies.”, and for developing a range of other valuation tools for use in different types of transaction, for valuing banks, and for analysing stock market valuations. She was also responsible for training non-specialist consultants in various aspects of corporate finance.

In 2003, Valerie qualified as a mathematics teacher and has taught at schools close to her home in Gloucestershire. She continues to do advisory work in financial modelling and data analysis.

Valerie specialises in the training of company valuation and financial modelling.