Glenn Tobias has been named CEO of FTI Capital Advisors. Asher Cohen, Peter Gray and James McClain joined the company as managing directors.

Tobias has been with FTI Consulting for more than eight years and has been instrumental in building the FTI Capital Advisors business. He replaces Carlyn Taylor, who became chairperson of FTI Capital Advisors after more than 10 years as CEO.

Tobias has more than 25 years of professional experience in M&A, debt and equity capital markets, project finance, corporate finance, executive management and consulting, including 12 years at BNP Paribas as the head of Energy Natural Resources and Project Finance. Prior to that, he spent six years at Global Crossing as vice president of Corporate Development and Structured Finance. He is based in New York.

Cohen joins FTI after 12 years with Houlihan Lokey and will focus on developing investment banking deal flow in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) industry, working closely with FTI Consulting’s TMT industry practice.

Cohen has more than 15 years of providing investment banking advisory services to TMT clients. Transactions include sell-side and buy-side M&A, private and public capital markets, fairness and solvency opinions, recapitalizations and financial restructurings. He previous led Houlihan Lokey’s Telecom and Internet Infrastructure coverage. He is based in Los Angeles.

Gray joins from Gerald Metals and will focus on driving mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activities for mining companies and their investors and stakeholders in FTI Consulting’s Global Mining Advisory Practice.

Gray has more than 30 years of experience in project finance, investment banking, merchant banking and M&A, focusing on international mining finance. He held numerous leadership positions across the mining industry, including as co-head of Commodities Trading at Gerald Metals’ merchant banking and physical metals trading business in Switzerland and the U.S. Gray also served as head of KPMG’s Energy, Mining and Natural Resources group in Corporate Finance and spent almost 20 years with ANZ Investment Bank and NAB Capital in their Corporate Finance and Project and Structured Finance divisions. He is based in New York.

McLain joins from Coker Capital Advisors and will focus on providing investment banking advisory services to clients of FTI Consulting’s Health Solutions practice, middle-market healthcare companies and private equity investors.

McLain has 18 years of M&A and corporate finance experience and has initiated and completed numerous strategic and financial transactions for healthcare companies. He has advised owners and management teams in a broad range of healthcare subsectors, including behavioral healthcare, specialty physician services, diagnostic labs, dental products and services, health and wellness, payer services and medical products. He is based in New York.

“I am excited to take on the role of CEO of FTI Capital Advisors,” Tobias said. “Working with Carlyn, we have built a strong foundation at FTI Capital Advisors over the past several years, which is evident in the success we experienced in 2016, partnering with subject matter experts from across FTI Consulting to close a number of significant transactions in multiple industries.”