Dr Killian J. McCarthy is a Professor of Strategy at Radboud University. His research focuses on the effect of corporate tools -- such as corporate venture capital, strategic alliances, divestitures and, especially, mergers and acquisitions -- on the firm’s performance. He has studied the performance of more than 500,000 acquisitions, mostly in high-tech sectors, such as pharmaceuticals. His work has been published in top scientific journals such as Research Policy and in high visibility journals like Harvard Business Review. Killian is currently a member of the FINDER Project team – a €1.2 million EU-financed Horizon2020 project on the FinTech industry – an Adjunct Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics and a Supervisor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.