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Guiding a company through tough times calls for the right leader. We’ve got you covered.

Our team of experienced C-level professionals partners seamlessly with your existing management team to provide the financial and operational leadership necessary to weather the crisis and set you on a path from value stabilization to value creation. With senior professionals deeply experienced in operations, turnaround, restructuring, finance, and accounting, we tackle the tough issues while laying a sustainable foundation for your transformative leaders to come—setting you up for long-term success.
PAIN POINT

Facing a crisis due to financial distress or operational disruptions.

What Accordion brings:
Step in as CRO.
Serve as Chief Restructuring Officer to lead turnaround & restructuring efforts.
Ensure value stabilization.
Identify and then tackle the root causes of underperformance to create value stabilization and chart a pathway to value creation.
Fight disruption.
Address and minimize business disruption, enabling the management team to remain focused on current operations.
PAIN POINT

Dealing with leadership vacancies due to the sudden departure of key executives or M&A transactions.

What Accordion brings:
Provide interim executive leadership.
Serve as interim leadership wherever needed (CEO, COO, CFO, CAO, Treasurer, Head of FP&A, or Controller).
Optimize operations.
Optimize the finance, accounting, and treasury operations while improving liquidity and working capital.
Ensure smooth transition to permanent leadership.
Lay the foundation for a smooth and successful transition to the right permanent executive.
PAIN POINT

Undergoing large-scale operational transformation and need leaders to support.

What Accordion brings:
Step in as transformation leadership.
Serve as Chief Transformation Officer to help pivot strategy, enter new markets, undergo digital transformation, etc.
Implement performance improvement initiatives.
Implement performance improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
Transform the business.
Complete transformation initiatives while minimizing impact on the day-to-day business.
We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Andrew Hede
Andrew Hede
President, Business Transformation & Transactions

Andrew is our President of Business Transformation & Transactions. He has 30 years of financial and operational transformation and restructuring experience in both the United States and Australia, advising clients in numerous formal and out-of-court restructurings.

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Keith Maib
Keith Maib
Senior Managing Director

Keith is a Senior Managing Director and co-leader of Mackinac Partners’ (acquired by Accordion in 2021) Financial Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, and Private Equity practice with over 30 years of diversified business experience. He plays a key role in the delivery of the firm’s service offerings across these areas in addition to M&A/transaction services, sell-side advisory, interim management, PE portfolio...

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Matthew Pascucci
Matthew Pascucci
Senior Managing Director

Matt is a Senior Managing Director with more than 20 years of experience providing financial advisory, restructuring, and turnaround services to large and middle market companies and their stakeholders. Matt’s practice has primarily focused on assisting companies stabilize operations, improve performance, and explore strategic alternatives. He also has significant experience assisting clients with acquisition due diligence for...

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Rupesh Shah
Rupesh Shah
Senior Managing Director

Rupesh is a Senior Managing Director with three decades of strategic operational advisory, corporate financial and business transformation experience with clients ranging from small startups to large multinational companies. Rupesh specializes in the providing strategic and tactical leadership to both growth and underperforming companies.

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John Bittner
John Bittner
Senior Managing Director

John is a Senior Managing Director with over 25 years of strategic, financial and operational restructuring advisory experience. He has served as a lead restructuring advisor, interim CEO, CFO, CRO and Senior VP in representing numerous companies, creditor groups and  stakeholders facing out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 proceedings, disputes, operational improvement projects, and both acquisition and divestiture transactions.

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Will Holden
Will Holden
Managing Director

Will has held senior finance, operational and strategic positions for private and public companies of all sizes and across all stages of the business cycle from early-stage high-growth businesses to mature global conglomerates. His 25+ years of experience has focused on working with companies facing critical financial, operational and strategic challenges and leading complex solution focused initiatives which include...

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