Enterprise consulting agency Ankura has welcomed three monetary transformation specialists from rival consultancy Berkeley Analysis Group (BRG) to guide a newly shaped “workplace of the CFO” apply. The brand new senior managing administrators – Elliot Fuhr, Joe D’Ascoli, and Dave Owen – deliver a mixed 60 years of expertise to Ankura.
“The addition of a CFO advisory apply will add to our emphasis on problem-solving with respect to advanced, existential points that require end-to-end methods, options, and execution distinctive to Ankura‘s capabilities,” stated Kevin Lavin, CEO of Ankura.
Elliot Fuhr has greater than 30 years of advisory expertise and has led finance-centered enterprise transformations in a variety of industries. He has partnered with boards and CFOs to extend effectivity and effectiveness, reduce threat, and execute transactions, and has served in quite a few interim administration positions.
Fuhr spent the final 4 years as a managing director at BRG, the place he drove finance-led enterprise transformations by way of the lens of a CFO. Earlier than that, he spent fourteen years at FTI Consulting, the place he was a senior managing director and led workplace of the CFO initiatives. Fuhr was additionally beforehand a accomplice in PwC’s monetary advisory companies apply, and was a administration advisor at AlixPartners and Deloitte.
“The flexibility to mix multidisciplinary skillsets and experience is important to deal with the far-ranging points that influence firms. We see the flexibility to combine and collaborate with complementary advisory {and professional} companies at Ankura as differentiating ourselves out there,” stated Fuhr.
Joe D’Ascoli has 15 years of advisory expertise specializing in finance transformation engagements. He focuses on monetary technique, forecasting, and analytics, and has suggested purchasers on turnarounds, progress plans, IPOs, and M&A transactions. He began his profession in 2006 as a advisor in FTI’s company restructuring apply, and have become a managing director within the workplace of CFO options in 2012. D’Ascoli went on to hitch BRG as a managing director in 2016.
Dave Owen has practically 20 years of expertise, with over a decade of expertise in administration consulting specializing in technique and operational enhancements. Owen was beforehand a managing director in BRG’s company finance and CFO options teams, and a managing director in FTI’s workplace of the CFO apply. Earlier than that, he was a supervisor in Deloitte’s technique and operations apply, engaged on provide chain administration initiatives for a spread of trade purchasers. Owens was additionally beforehand a managing director at E-Dice Technique Consultants, the place he labored on power and inexperienced enterprise consulting engagements, and a senior advisor at Roland Berger.
Earlier than getting into the consulting area, Owens held provide chain and enterprise improvement roles at industrial companies CNH and Iveco.
Based in 2015, Ankura focuses on company efficiency and threat administration, offering consulting companies throughout compliance, investigations, forensics, expertise, turnaround and restructuring, and company technique. The Washington, DC-based agency has over 1,500 workers throughout greater than 30 international workplaces.
The corporate earlier this yr added the 22-person team of Water Street Partners, a Washington, DC-based three way partnership and alliance advisory agency.
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