NEW YORK (Aug. 12, 2011) – AlixPartners, the global business-advisory firm, today announced that it aims to further accelerate its growth in Asia with the appointment of industry veteran C.V. Ramachandran as head of AlixPartners’ business and offices in Asia,. Ramachandran, who will be stationed in Hong Kong, has been a managing director at AlixPartners since joining the firm in 2003. Most recently, he led several key European client relationships in addition to managing the infrastructure for AlixPartners’ entire EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, from the firm’s London office.
“AlixPartners is experiencing a continuing surge in demand for our services in Asia across our entire suite of services, including enterprise improvement, turnaround and restructuring, and investigations-support and other financial-advisory services,” said Fred Crawford, CEO of AlixPartners. “The macroeconomics in key countries in Asia, as well as the continuing expansion of multinational companies into the region, makes this the right time to build on our already-strong foundation. C.V., with his broad international experience in both consulting and the corporate world, is the right person to spearhead this effort.”
As part of enhancing its presence in Asia, AlixPartners also recently hired two new managing directors, Rob Morris and Eric Thompson, who are based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Morris is a financial-advisory services expert and Thompson is a restructuring expert. Other AlixPartners managing directors in the region include Ivo Naumann, based in Shanghai; and Yuji Nishiura, Hiro Hirano and Tsutomu Noda, all based in Tokyo.
Ramachandran has helped many global corporations and private-equity owners improve business performance in a broad range of industries, including automotive, consumer products and aerospace. His areas of functional expertise include operations improvement (including pricing, supply chain, product development and manufacturing) as well as M&A-related support. Before AlixPartners, he worked for 13 years in consulting as a partner at Booz Allen Hamilton and at A.T. Kearney. Prior to that, he worked for 10 years between Ford Motor Co. and Midland Ross Corp. Ramachandran holds an MBA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a master’s degree in engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi.
“AlixPartners’ model of small, senior teams dedicated first and foremost to sustainable results, is exactly what clients need in the rapidly evolving economies in Asia,” said Ramachandran. “Be it a company whose once-explosive growth is now starting to level out or even to falter, or a multinational that’s looking to expand into Asia, or a company or law firm wrestling with the intricacies of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, AlixPartners has the on-the-ground expertise in Asia, backed up by an unparalleled team around the world, to rapidly deliver outstanding results.”
About AlixPartners
AlixPartners LLP is a global business-advisory firm offering comprehensive services in four major areas: enterprise improvement, turnaround and restructuring, financial-advisory services and information-management services. The firm has more than 900 professionals in offices around the world, and can be found on the web at www.alixpartners.com.