Exclusive for MSPC supporters: What's the real story on the Kroger-Albertsons merger, and what impact will it have on your local grocery store? Join us for an interactive conversation with MSPC President Chris Cargill and Scott Moses, one of the top national experts on mergers, and the head of Grocery, Pharmacy and Restaurants at Solomon Partners.

More about Scott Moses:

Scott Moses is a Partner, Head of the Grocery, Pharmacy & Restaurants Investment Banking practice at Solomon Partners, and a member of the Firm’s Operating Committee. He specializes in retail sector strategic and financial advice, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, sales and divestitures of traditional and specialty food and drug retailers and restaurants. He joined the firm in 2016.

Scott has advised clients in some of the largest and most significant retail M&A transactions over the past two decades, with a combined transaction value of more than $50 billion. He has been named to the “Top 50: Americas M&A Dealmakers” list by Global M&A Network (2013) and “40 Under 40” lists of promising finance professionals by IDD (2011) and The M&A Advisor (2015).

Scott was previously the Head of Food, Drug and Specialty Retail Investment Banking at Sagent Advisors, prior to which he worked in the retail investment banking groups at JPMorgan, Citigroup and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (Wasserstein Perella).

Scott has been quoted numerous times as a sector thought leader in various business and grocery media outlets, including Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Food Dive, Progressive Grocer, The Shelby Report, Supermarket News and Winsight Grocery.

Scott graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BA in Political Science. He received a JD / MBA from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an executive editor of the Columbia Business Law Review.