Alvarez & Marsal added Managing Director Ben Hope to its Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Los Angeles. Hope’s appointment will bolster the firm’s Media and Entertainment industry expertise and help clients best navigate complex industry issues to maximize value.
Hope brings more than 20 years of experience in the broadcast and cable, television and film production, global content syndication and distribution and theme parks sectors. Additionally, he has in-depth experience supporting mergers and acquisitions including the design and execution of technology integration strategies, application portfolio consolidation, organization redesign and rationalization of redundant business processes.
Before joining A&M, Hope held executive positions across multiple functions at NBCU and Fox Networks Group, including finance, sales, operations and information technology. As a technology leader for NBCU and Fox, Hope developed and executed global technology strategies to transform business processes, automate workflows, manage solution portfolios and address increasingly dynamic changes in the media and entertainment marketplace.
“Ben has unparalleled experience transforming some of the country’s largest media and entertainment organizations,” said Joel O’Driscoll, a managing director who leads Alvarez & Marsal’s West Region Corporate Performance Improvement practice. “This is an era of disruption, uncertainty and fear in the industry. Ben’s appointment reflects our investment to help Media and Entertainment companies optimize the value of their content and improve financial results.”
