Carson is a senior strategic procurement executive with extensive hands-on operational experience in supply chain, sales, marketing and professional services in both large and mid-sized global corporations. Prior to joining AlixPartners, he was the chief procurement executive at Lucent Technologies where he managed an award-winning transformation of a decentralized, tactical purchasing function to a centralized, strategic, highly-leveraged procurement team.

Carson holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as an MBA from Duke University. He was named a “Top CPO” by Purchasing Magazine in October 2006, and the Lucent team he was part of was awarded Purchasing Magazine’s “Spend Analysis Award” in 2004. Carson also received Purchasing Magazine’s Medal of Excellence in 2002.

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.