Adam Fless
Private Equity/Procurement Value Creation Leader, Co-Head Americas Healthcare Life Science Practice
- Role
- Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Adam Fless
Always great to connect with new contacts - however please message me with context if we haven\'t spoken before, thanks.Adam is an innovative value creation and execution leader who has over 25 years of experience as a private equity value creation executive, board member, interim management and as a trusted results-oriented consulting partner. He focuses on Private Equity/M&A and Procurement/Cost Improvement.Adam has served as a Board Director multiple times on early and mid-stage growth investments. He has been interim CXO multiple times including on international assignment. He has founded a private equity value creation function including building out the team and driving the ESG platform.He has worked across industries including health care & life sciences, consumer, technology/business services, industrials and food/restaurant/agriculture. His functional area of distinctive expertise is margin growth via cost (strategic sourcing and design-to-value) and sales (pricing and salesforce effectiveness)- always with a focus on building talent. He has led significant, international carve-out, TSA and stand-ups.He is active with volunteer Board roles, industry panels incubators and thought-leadership events.Specialties: Due Diligence, Contract Negotiations, Post-Merger Integration, Margin Enhancement, Purchasing and Supply Chain, Working Capital, Supplier Relations, Corporate Turnaround, Change Management, Sales Force Effectiveness, Pricing, Post Merger Integration, New Product DevelopmentIndustries: Private Equity, Professional Services, Consumer Goods, Technology, Payments, Industrial, Retail, Restaurant/Foodservice, Automotive, Heavy Industry, Logistics, Education
Experience
Partner & Managing Director
Jan 2021 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses successfully address their most complex and critical challenges WHEN IT REALLY MATTERS.
Education
London Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Economics
2000 — 2002
University of Waterloo
Economics, International Trade Specialization
1993 — 1998
Skills
- Business Development
- Restructuring
- Executive Management
- Program Management
- Business Planning
- Strategic Sourcing
- Due Diligence
- Change Management
- Acquisition Integration
- Leadership
- Valuation
- Strategic Planning
- Procurement
- Financial Modeling
- Value Engineering
- Strategy
- Purchasing
- Management Consulting
- Process Improvement
- Supply Chain
- Retail
- Corporate Finance
- Business Strategy
- Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Corporate Development
- Turn Around Management
- Performance Improvement
- Business Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Private Equity
- Source to Pay
- Contract Negotiation
- Start-Ups
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