Wes Arens is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in Seattle. With more than 25 years of Fortune 500 sales leadership and consulting experience delivering transformational performance improvement, he has worked within the healthcare, retail, and high technology industries.

Neil Beaton is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Seattle. He specializes in the valuation of public and privately held businesses and intangible assets for purposes of litigation support (lost profits claims, marriage dissolutions and others), acquisitions, sales, buy-sell agreements, ESOPs, incentive stock options and estate planning and taxation. He also performs economic analysis for personal injury claims, wrongful termination and wrongful death actions.

Lisa Brown is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Seattle. She specializes in accounting, financial and economic damage analyses related to commercial litigation.

Chris Clower is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Seattle. He specializes in enterprise cost reduction via supply chain levers, including strategic sourcing, supplier and vendor relationship management, logistics network optimization, and redesign and automation of procure-to-pay and order to cash processes.

Lorelei Heisler is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in Seattle. She has an extensive consulting and client service background, which includes supporting the offices of CFOs and CAOs. In addition, she has expertise in business development and global account expansion.

Erin Kenny is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services in Seattle. She helps clients to develop and implement technology product and channel strategies. Ms. Kenny has expertise working with online retail, finance and transportation companies and non-profit organizations.

Sandeip Khanvilkar is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Portland, OR and is the Analytics Leader for the firm’s Insight Center, specializing in quantitative analysis and data modeling, SG&A benchmarking, Six Sigma and research.

Harsha Koushik is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Seattle. He specializes in industry and consulting in end-to-end supply chain transformation and EBIT improvement.

Eliza Medearis is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group in Seattle. She specializes in healthcare finance, faculty compensation, strategic planning and population health.

John Sawyer is a Managing Director with the A&M Valuation Services practice in Seattle. He specializes in the valuation of public and privately held businesses and complex financial instruments for purposes of tax reporting, financial statement reporting and strategic consulting.

Mark Schmidt is a Managing Director with Alvarez and Marsal Private Equity Services Operations Group in Seattle. He brings 15 years of experience in hands-on operations, manufacturing and supply chain performance improvement. Mr. Schmidt has an extensive value creation track record in pre-acquisition diligence and post-acquisition performance improvement.

Drew Smith is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Public Sector Services in Seattle. He specializes in Medicaid financing and policy, stakeholder engagement and health and human services systems transformation. His primary areas of concentration include assessment-informed resource allocation methodology, policy implementation and planning, data mapping and analysis, and performance monitoring and planning.

Ian Smith is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in Seattle. For the past twenty-one years he has advised companies that seek cost management, business growth or big bet transformation initiatives. His primary areas of concentration are customer profitability analysis, customer insights and analytics, business process reengineering and implementation of people, process and technology transformations.

Paul Tearnen is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Public Sector Services in Seattle.

Benjamin P. Thomas is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Seattle. Washington.

Arik Van Zandt is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Seattle.

Noah Wepman is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services in Seattle. He specializes in aligning resources to strategy to accelerate performance improvement for education organizations. His primary areas of concentration include strategic financial management and resource allocation for K-12 education systems, nonprofits and foundations.

Matthew Zanedis is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Seattle. Mr. Zanedis assists financial buyers with tax due diligence and tax planning for buy- and sell-side transactions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare and healthcare technology, software, technology, consulting and business process outsourcing, manufacturing, and energy.