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Ryan Tull 

Ryan Tull joined the energy, power & infrastructure investment banking group at Piper Sandler in 2024 and leads the capital markets origination and public M&A for the group. 
 
Tull has 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including 20 years as an investment banker. Prior to Piper Sandler, Tull was head of oilfield services and oilfield infrastructure at J.P. Morgan from 2019 to 2024 and worked for Credit Suisse from 2004 to 2019 where he was promoted to managing director and served as head of oilfield services. 
 
Tull has extensive capital markets and advisory experience, raising more than $50 billion in debt financing, leading more than 20 IPOs as well as many other follow-on equity offerings and having completed approximately $40 billion in M&A deal volume. 
 
Tull is a long-time Houstonian and grew up in New Mexico. He earned a bachelor’s degree in managerial studies and economics as well as a Masters of Business Administration degree, with honors, from Rice University. 


Brett Wells
ERP & Technology Systems Transformation Leader

Brett Wells helps large organizations shape outcomes—not slides. With 27 years leading Oracle Cloud and SAP S/4HANA programs, hebuilds the governance, process, data, and AI layers that make ERP stick: program control towers, country activation kits, value tracking, and regression discipline. A frequent keynote speaker, Brett partners with executive sponsors to align strategy to execution and prove value early—improving reliability, compliance, and ROI across petrochemicals, energy, and financial services. Brett has led and or delivered over 31 multi-national ERP implementations.

  • Lead architect for front, middle, and back-office modernization across Oracle Cloud (ERP, SCM, MFG, OTC) and SAP S/4HANA (including SAP RISE and BTP).
  • Specializes in defining and delivering digital core strategies that unify operations, finance, customer experience, and supply chain for global enterprises.
  • Expert in embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into enterprisesystems to drive intelligent operations.
  • Business architect across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Azure, and GCP, aligning multi-cloud strategies to business goals and regulatory frameworks.
  • PgMP-certified leader and former Accenture IPC Delivery Executive, with experience driving enterprise-wide programs across industries.
  • Expert in creating ROI-driven business cases and monetization frameworks for large-scale cloud and AI transformations.


Greg Derderian
Senior Vice President, CFO Advisory

Greg is a seasoned finance transformation and consulting leader with an extensive track record of helping CFOs modernize finance operating models, elevate decision-making, and embed technology and AI into the core of enterprise performance. As CFO Advisory Leader at RGP (Nasdaq: RGP)—recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms for four consecutive years—Greg leads the firm’s CFO Advisory services, a core growth engine within the Consulting business. His role marks a strategic investment in scaling RGP’s CFO Advisory practice, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to integrating Finance and Digital transformation under a unified leadership model.

RGP’s CFO Advisory practice spans finance transformation, ERP value realization, AI-ready finance, supply chain optimization, M&A integration, risk and compliance, tax and treasury, and enterprise project and change management. Greg is responsible for delivering repeatable, outcome-driven solutions across these interconnected priorities, providing CFOs and their C-suite partners with holistic, scalable support across the transformation lifecycle—from advisory through execution and ongoing operations.

Prior to joining RGP, Greg served as Senior Partner and Global CFO Transformation and Consulting Leader at Genpact, where he led a global practice focused on reimagining finance operations at enterprise scale. Before Genpact, he served as a Partner at EY, where he held senior leadership roles in finance management consulting, advising global enterprises on modernizing finance functions while maintaining operational rigor and regulatory compliance.

Widely recognized for balancing governance, efficiency, and strategic impact, Greg champions transformation that is not only visionary but also durable. His approach connects finance strategy, technology enablement, and operational execution—ensuring transformation creates lasting, measurable business value for clients navigating compressed M&A timelines, ERP modernization, AI enablement, data governance, and margin pressure simultaneously.


Danny Boyer
Sr. Vice President, Global M&A Practice Leader

Successful M&A professional with 20 years of experience, building and leading cross-functional advisory teams, partnering with corporate and private equity clients to drive value creation through complex transformations and transactions across the lifecycle, spanning strategy, diligence, and execution. As Global Head of M&A, he leads RGP’s M&A offering across the full transaction lifecycle, from financial and operational due diligence through Day 1 readiness, integration, separation, and long-term post-close optimization. His leadership reinforces RGP’s differentiated model: aligning finance, technology, operations, and data under a single, accountable framework to ensure strategy translates into measurable execution. 

Danny has partnered with client executives to shape and lead 100+ transactions and related transformation efforts ranging in size from $300M asset deals to $35B+ global integrations and separations. Selected experience includes:

  • $7B Parallel Integrations –Shaped and led multiple acquisitions doubling size of business, and established post-close transformation roadmap, business case, operating model and supported implementation.
  • $1.3B Carve-out Strategy and Stand-up –Shaped, sold and led PE backed stand-up of new business working directly with CEO and PEboard to set strategy, stand-up new business processes, systems, and design/recruit/onboard organization.
  • $10B Integration, Performance Improvement, & Separation –Shaped and led multiple programs over 7 years building business (multiple acquisitions), driving cost reduction during downturn, and eventual exit through parallel divestitures.
  • $4B Integration and International Business Stand-up –Shaped and led mobilization and execution of $4B integration across 20+ workstreams and multiple additional asset deals. Advised on international expansion strategy and stand-up of international business in Mexico (first among peers). Developed M&A playbook for future transactions.
  • $30B Global Separation –Led separation across 34 workstreams. Set strategy, roadmap, plans, designed operating model/organization, analyzed costs/dis-synergies, and managed separation execution in preparation for IPO.
  • Enterprise Performance Improvement –Architected and led multiple lean-based operations improvement assessments, identified and developed plans to achieve >$300M in margin and >$500M in working capital benefit, across 4 continents.