Becky brings a unique perspective to her operational turnaround and crisis management engagements. With over 30 years of experience, her credentials consist of a blend of corporate and consulting experience. Becky’s tenure as vice president and CFO of a Houston-based oilfield services company provides her with an enhanced perspective of the corporate and operating issues faced by management, other stakeholders and their representatives. She also possesses an extensive global consulting background providing interim and crisis management to troubled and under performing companies in a broad array of industries, including consumer, grocery, manufacturing, distribution, retail, pharmaceutical, automotive, and energy services.
Becky has extensive experience in aggressive cash management and cost reductions, business plan development and measurement, lender, customer, and creditor negotiations, strengthening of the finance function, and debt restructurings. Becky most recently advised a Tier 2 automotive supplier in the development of a near-term business plan, cash forecast, and restructuring of its lender terms and covenants. She recently served as CAO and CRO at Taro Pharmaceutical Industries, an international generic drug manufacturer, where her duties included strengthening core competencies in the finance organization, stabilizing liquidity, and business plan development. Becky has also served as CRO and interim CFO at Anchor Glass, where she led the company’s emergence from bankruptcy.
Becky also was the CRO and CFO at Atkins Nutritionals, a diet and nutritional packaged foods company, where she managed the parallel tracks of a capital restructuring, significant downsizing, and brand repositioning. Previously, she served as interim CFO at Fleming Companies, Inc., a leading supplier of consumer package goods and she also led the AlixPartners team advising The Alamo and National car rental companies, focusing on operational consolidations and brand combinations. She served as interim CFO at United Companies Financial Corporation, a subprime mortgage lender and as CFO of APS Holding Corporation, a NYSE-listed auto parts distribution company, in its orderly liquidation and wind-down. Prior to that assignment, she served as CFO of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she led the effort to develop a business planning and cash management model.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Becky was a director in the corporate finance; regeneration and disputes practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Previously, she provided litigation support and corporate recovery consulting services for Ernst & Young LLP. Before joining Ernst & Young, Becky served as the CFO and Treasurer of an oilfield services company and Director of Special Projects for an oil & gas exploration company.
Becky is active in a wide variety of industry activities. She is frequent industry speaker and lecturer at various universities. She is on the Executive and Management Committees of the American Bankruptcy Institute, was one of the founders of the Texas Chapter for the Turnaround Management Association and is a former board member, is on the Advisory Board for Texas Women on Wall Street, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She is a Certified Management Accountant, a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor, and a CPA (licensed in Texas).
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from Trinity University, where she was a university scholar.