Adrian works at the intersection of transaction execution and operational value creation, bringing over a decade of experience across investment banking, management consulting, and private equity-backed environments. He has closed 14 transactions and supported more than 30 cross-border engagements, advising publicly listed companies, private equity firms, and mid-market businesses across TMT, healthcare, industrials, and real estate.
At AlixPartners, Adrian's work spans the full deal lifecycle. On the transaction side, he brings deep experience in financial modeling, valuation, and end-to-end deal execution. On the value creation side, he has led cost transformation programs, supported integration and carve-out planning for software and IT businesses, conducted operational diligence, and managed venture build and market entry projects. His background across multiple advisory contexts gives him a practical understanding of how the same situation reads differently depending on who is making the decision and when.
Prior to AlixPartners, Adrian worked at Roland Berger and several mid-market investment banks in the US and Germany.
Adrian holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and IESE Business School, an MSc in Corporate Finance and Managerial Accounting from WU Vienna, and an MS in Real Estate from Chapman University. He speaks English, German, and Spanish.
Career highlights:
- Optimized third-party spend for PE-owned media company, identifying cost-reduction levers across Travel & Expense and sourcing alternative event vendors to lower procurement costs
- Supported carve-out and stand-alone assessment of software company, building benchmark-driven should-cost model across all major functions and leveraging spans-and-layers analysis to assess org efficiency
- Led venture build for AI-enabled ESG / Real Estate software concept, validating business model through stakeholder interviews and competitive benchmarking; built financial/ROI model and defined MVP scope, GTM strategy, and org design to support POC launch and investment case
- Drove end-to-end manufacturing site selection strategy for European trailer truck company's North American expansion, conducting multi-round down-selection across 7 regions and building total landed cost model incorporating labor, logistics, and tariffs
- Supported IMO for IT solutions provider, consolidating cross-functional integration plans, maintaining dependency and decision logs across workstreams, and preparing executive materials to accelerate pre-merger planning and Day-1 readiness
- Conducted operational DD for PE client on potential acquisition of ERP software company, performing outside-in assessment
- Drove cost transformation for a multi-division healthcare company facing margin erosion; evaluated base, rebuild, and wind-down scenarios and built bottom-up EBITDA model identifying savings across US/global labor