NEW YORK, NY, March 26, 2025 – Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), a leading international professional services firm, continues to set the benchmark for CFO-led value creation. Reinforcing its global strength, deep industry expertise, and decades-long track record of transformation, A&M announces the appointment of Mark Emerson as a Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) group Managing Director.
Mr. Emerson brings 25 years of transaction finance strategy, finance operating model design and process optimization experience, along with expertise spanning across chemicals, life sciences, industrial products, software, private equity and professional services. He will work alongside leading CFOs and PE sponsors to optimize financial and operational performance.
Nick Alvarez, Managing Director and National Practice Leader of A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Group, stated, “In today’s PE market, there’s no room for trial and error. Private equity sponsors and CFOs don’t need new players promising to ‘fill a gap’—they need trusted partners with a proven track record of delivering value under pressure. At A&M, we don’t just talk about CFO-led performance improvement; we’ve been defining it for decades.”
Mr. Emerson’s hire strengthens A&M’s ability to stand up finance functions from the ground up for PE-backed portfolio companies, execute complex carve-outs, integrate disparate companies with seamless finance and accounting function transition, and design finance operating models to support the needs and objectives of PE-backed companies.
Richard Jenkins, Managing Director and Leader of the CFO Services practice, added, “The office of the CFO isn’t just a back-office function—it’s the nerve center of value creation. Our clients don’t have time for market experiments; they need partners who have been in the trenches, delivering results through market cycles, economic shifts, and industry disruptions.”
