Former CEO of Ever-Fresh Products Joins AlixPartners
SOUTHFIELD, MI (March 14, 2007) – AlixPartners, the international corporate turnaround, performance improvement and financial advisory firm, announced the addition of Dean B. Truitt II as a director in the firm’s Southfield office.
Truitt has more than 26 years of consulting and management experience with a successful track record of leading companies through major business change, operational improvements, turnarounds and mergers and acquisitions. He has significant experience in the consumer products, retail, distribution and manufacturing industries.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Truitt was the chief executive officer of Ever-Fresh Products, a consumer products venture in Minneapolis. He was also formerly a partner with Waterstone Management Group, LLC, where he assisted CEOs and private equity firms by implementing growth and M&A initiatives. Before that, he had an eight-year career with Ernst & Young, where he was an equity partner serving in the roles of National Consumer Products Industry Leader and National Merger Integration Practice Leader for Products. When the firm merged with Cap Gemini to become Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he served as the Area VP of the Central Region Products Business Unit. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (Accenture).
Truitt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Oklahoma State University.
About AlixPartners AlixPartners is a global performance improvement, corporate turnaround and financial advisory services 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), to technology-enabled restructuring and claims management. Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, the firm has more than 600 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. |