DeAnn Brunts

Chief Financial Officer

DeAnn is the Chief Financial Officer for Merlin International®. Previously, she was the Central Region Managing Partner of Tatum LLC and a member of the Operating Committee of the firm. Over her career, DeAnn has held several CFO/EVP positions in public and private companies from $10 million to $500 million in revenue.

Prior to her career as a CFO, DeAnn was at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 14 years. During that time, she was a mergers and acquisitions partner specializing in initial public offerings and industry consolidations. She served as transaction and audit partner on the carve out of Vlasic Foods from Campbell, provided M&A advisory services to Anheuser-Busch in conjunction with its acquisitions and international joint ventures/investments, and served as advisor on numerous simultaneous IPO/merger transactions. She also served as a partner in strategic planning in the Price Waterhouse office of the chairman and on the chairman’s task force to select, assess and structure merger transactions for the firm. In this capacity, she worked on the merger of the U.S. and European Price Waterhouse firms and the merger of that combined firm with Coopers & Lybrand.

DeAnn holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri and a Master’s degree in operations and finance from The Wharton School.