Catalyst Acquisition Team

Mr. Amell is a recognized Chief Executive and a Global Transformation and Corporate Agility expert with extraordinary experience in leading major change in Public and Private Organizations. Mr. Amell has served both mega organizations as well as Family Offices and small entrepreneurial companies. Mr. Amell’s background includes leading the global expansion and later the successful spin-off of the D&B group into 7 publicly held companies (Cognizant, Nielsen, IMS, Moody’s, Gartner, etc.). Turnaround and merger of AlliedSignal into Honeywell. Creation of Intrepid Learning, Private Acquisition of Gartner Custom Research, etc. Mr. Amell began his career as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. He is a dual citizen of United States of American and Sweden. Mr. Amell has a Post-Graduate ISMP Program at the Harvard Business School and BA/MBA equivalent from Stockholm and Uppsala University. Author of the just-released Radical Business Agility (April 2022 and business book hit “Mastering Agility (successfully navigating uncertainty)”, released October 2016. Mr. Amell is married to Barbara (US Amell, has eight children (all US citizens) and is a seasoned skier and blue-water sailor.