Kunal S. Kamlani joined the team of advisory, restructuring, turnaround and performance improvement veterans as senior managing director at M3 Partners, an independent corporate advisory firm. Kamlani brings deep operational expertise, and has led companies across key verticals including financial services, global leisure and hospitality, retail, real estate and home services.
“Kunal is an excellent addition to the M3 Partners team, bringing sophisticated financial and operational expertise with industry and customer focused insight,” Mo Meghji, founder and managing partner of M3, said. “Throughout his more than 25-year career, he has worked with sponsors, boards, management, and employee teams, always with a drive to maximize shareholder value and bottom line results.”
“I’m thrilled to join M3 Partners, a growing corporate financial advisory firm with an impressive track record in performance improvement and restructuring,” Kamlani said. “Having served as an investor and member of the C-suite or board across numerous verticals, I have faced a broad range of business challenges, with most of them occurring when the relationships between strategy, operations and funding requirements are not fully understood. Taking a dispassionate approach to identify critical points of misalignment across an enterprise is not easy, but it’s an effective way to drive change and maximize value for stakeholders. I look forward to working with my M3 colleagues to help clients address their challenges in sustainable and profitable ways.”
Prior to joining M3, Kamlani served as president of ESL Investments where he led the firm’s M&A, divestiture and financing activities and worked side by side with portfolio company management teams on process reengineering. Prior to ESL Investments, Kamlani served first as CFO, and then as president and COO of Prestige Cruise Holdings, the parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises, where he generated record revenue and EBITDA every year and completed the sale of Prestige Cruise Holdings to Norwegian Cruise Lines for $3.1 billion. Kamlani also served as head of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch’s $8 billion global investment solutions business, where he was responsible for developing client solutions across all asset classes, enabling financial advisors to grow their businesses. Prior to that, he was COO of Citi Smith Barney, head of financial planning and analysis of Citigroup, and vice president of corporate development for Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
“We believe Kunal’s expertise will prove exceptionally valuable to clients across cycles,” Meghji said. “Cracks have begun to show in the middle market, and companies that may have borrowed to outlast the pandemic are left with even more debt while customers are experiencing inflation, pain at the pump, continuing supply chain disruptions and a looming winter of high energy costs. M3 Partners was founded to help clients overcome challenges like these and we look forward to working with them to weather what lies ahead.”
