FTI Consulting expanded its Retail & Consumer Products practice with the addition of three senior managing directors in the U.S. and Australia.

Wichser, who will be based in Chicago, joins from Alvarez & Marsal and will lead FTI Consulting’s U.S. Retail & Consumer Products practice. Khaled Haram joins from PricewaterhouseCoopers and will be based in New York. Kate Warwick, who will be based in Melbourne, Australia, also joins from PwC, where she led the Retail & Consumer focus of that firm’s Australian Deals team nationally. At FTI Consulting, Warwick will lead the firm’s Australian Retail & Consumer Products practice.

“FTI Consulting has had a longstanding commitment to retail and consumer products, and consistent with our commitment to aggressively support our best positions and propositions where we have a right to win, I am thrilled that we have added these talented individuals to our team,” said Steven H. Gunby, president and CEO of FTI Consulting.

Wichser, whose clients have included multibillion-dollar global retailers and consumer-focused businesses, has more than 30 years of experience in both consulting and in the industry as an executive at a leading international big-box retailer.

Haram brings more than 25 years of experience, focusing on delivering solutions across the deal continuum, including operational and SG&A due diligence for carve-out transactions, post-merger integration, operating and profitability improvement initiatives and synergy realization projects. He has worked on more than 60 retail and consumer products transactions in the past four years, with values ranging between $200 million and $4 billion.

Warwick has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of restructuring and turnaround management, corporate finance and performance improvement. She specializes in advising and working with boards, shareholders, senior management and other stakeholders to maximize value and manage and mitigate risk

“Retailers are facing increased industry disruption, competitive challenges and economic threats around the globe,” said Carlyn Taylor, FTI’s Global co-leader of the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment. “Adding the talents of J.D., Khaled and Kate, in combination with our restructuring heritage and deep enterprise cost reduction and productivity improvement focus, will help our retail and consumer-focused clients immediately unlock transformational value creation opportunities in the current environment and beyond.”