Chicago Office

Melissa is a Senior Managing Director with over 30 years of experience providing financial advisory, restructuring, and turnaround management services to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies and their stakeholders. She also has extensive investigative, litigation, and valuation experience, including insolvency-related litigation, avoidance actions, fraud investigations, merger and acquisition disputes, director and officer claims, and other commercial litigation support. Melissa has provided expert testimony in U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, state court, arbitrations, and other venues. Her industry experience includes automotive, aviation, education, energy, financial services, gaming, healthcare, manufacturing/distribution, media/entertainment, municipalities, natural resources, real estate/construction, retail, restaurant, steel, telecommunications, transportation and other industries.  Read more

Matt is a Senior Director with over 16 years of successful experience establishing modern digital solutions in the areas of budgeting & forecasting, profitability, consolidations, reporting and advanced analytics.  Read more

Mike is a Senior Director with more than a decade of finance, advisory, and transaction experience serving private equity-sponsored companies and Fortune 500 multinational clients. He specializes in developing and implementing strategy to enable the finance function to efficiently operate at scale.  Read more

Jake is a Vice President with experience in financial restructuring, operational turnaround, and strategic advisory. He has served in multiple interim roles including Director of FP&A, Controller, and other Finance and Accounting roles. He has also served in multiple restructuring advisory roles for companies facing a variety of complex situations including rapid growth scenarios, underperformance, out-of-court restructurings, and Chapter 11 proceedings.  Read more

Zach is a Vice President with nearly 10 years of advisory, and FP&A experience with clients ranging from middle-market to large conglomerates. Zach specializes in M&A operational due diligence and execution services.  Read more