AlixPartners Adds IT Strategy and Financial Advisory Executives
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN (October 23, 2007) – AlixPartners, the global restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm, announced the appointment of two new directors: Michael Haftl who joins the firm’s Financial Advisory Services practice in San Francisco, and Richard Pople who joins the firm’s Information Technology Transformation Services practice in New York.
Haftl has more than ten years of experience providing restructuring and financial advisory services. He has substantial experience working with troubled companies, their management, and their related creditor constituents. His industry expertise includes telecommunications, retail, restaurant, financial services, construction, and gaming. Prior to joining AlixPartners, he served as a senior vice president for Mesirow Financial Consulting (formerly KPMG Corporate Recovery), specializing in financial turnarounds and restructurings. He received his bachelor’s degree in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Pople is an experienced consultant and business executive with more than 20 years of experience in IT, strategy, finance, and operations. He has worked with senior executives and CIOs to transform the performance of their IT organizations and businesses through strategic deployment of technology, innovative organizational design, and technology decisions framed in a business and economic context.
He has led engagements for some of the most complex companies in the world in the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and retail industries. Before joining AlixPartners, he was a managing director with the Corporate Executive Board and a partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading the firm’s IT strategy and technology integration practices in Europe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management science from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s degree in industrial administration, awarded with distinction, from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
About AlixPartners
AlixPartners is a global restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm. The AlixPartners’ “one-stop-shop” suite of services range from operational performance improvement and financial restructuring across all major corporate disciplines (manufacturing, supply chain, IT, and sales and marketing), to financial advisory services (financial reporting, corporate governance and investigations, and litigation consulting), to technology-enabled claims management. Headquartered in Michigan, the firm has 700 employees in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo. It is on the Web at www.alixpartners.com.
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