Malcolm McKenzie

Managing Director
Heads the European Corporate Transformation Services practice
30 years experience advising senior management and boards of directors on operational turnaround and improving top- and bottom-line performance
Led series of research programmes into board leadership and has served on boards
London
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Malcolm McKenzie is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and Head of the European Corporate Transformation Services practice in London. He brings 30 years of experience in advising senior management and boards on improving top-line and bottom-line performance and has completed over 70 cost reduction, transformation, mergers and acquisitions and carve-out engagements across corporate and private equity owned businesses.

Mr. McKenzie has worked with clients across the industrials, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, technology, retail and distribution, media, energy, utilities, transportation and healthcare industries.

Since joining A&M eighteen years ago, when he set up the European Performance Improvement practice, Mr. McKenzie has led and advised some of A&M’s largest turnarounds and performance improvement engagements. These include the operational restructuring of a major aerospace player; turnaround of a steel business; operating model design and performance improvement for a major automotive OEM; turnaround and business sale for a major bus operator; carve-out and 100-day plan for a European telecom operator; cost reduction for a telecommunications specialist; turnaround of a software business; global merger integration for two TV production businesses; and improvement of a London teaching hospital.

Additionally, Mr. McKenzie has served on several boards and worked with chairmen and boards of directors on evaluating and improving board and company performance. He has also led a series of research programmes into board leadership (e.g. through disruptive change) and served as a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. McKenzie was a Partner with Ernst & Young and Cap Gemini. He also founded and led a JV consultancy with Robson Rhodes and has run his own business.

Mr. McKenzie earned a master's degree from Cambridge University, an MBA from London Business School and the Certified Diploma from the ACCA.

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