SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN (January 21, 2010) – AlixPartners, the global business advisory firm, today announced the addition of Thomas Christenson, who joins the firm’s Enterprise Improvement practice in New York as a director.

Christenson is a senior executive with experience in crisis and strategic restructuring management.  He has broad-ranging experience in the insurance, retirement, healthcare and financial technology industries.  Before joining AlixPartners, he was a mergers and acquisitions banker with JP Morgan and a strategy consultant with Oliver Wyman.  In those roles, he led projects to reduce cost and re-design business models for profitable growth.  Most recently, he served as the chief operating officer of the Marsh & McLennan Agency.

Christenson holds an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA with honors in economics and political science from Colgate University. 

AlixPartners is a global business advisory firm offering comprehensive services to improve corporate performance, execute corporate turnarounds, and provide litigation consulting and forensic accounting services.  The firm’s specialty is urgent, high-impact situations when results really matter.  The firm has more than 900 professionals in 14 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, and is on the Web at www.alixpartners.com.