Founding partner of Stuart Slatter & Company, Chairman ofStuart Slatter Training and a Visiting Fellow in Strategic andInternational Management at the London Business School (LBS).
Stuart Slatter has over twenty-five years of experience inproviding strategic consultancy advice and management education tosenior management throughout the world. While a full time facultymember at LBS, he was Dean for Executive Education, Director of theSenior Executive Programme, and Chairman of the Strategic andInternational Management Department. He has been a VisitingProfessor at the University of California (UCLA) and at theUniversity of Capetown. Prior to joining LBS, he was ManagingDirector of a subsidiary of a UK public company, and a seniormanagement consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton in New Yorkspecialising in marketing strategy.
He holds a law degree from Cambridge University, an MBA degree fromStanford Business School, and a PhD in marketing from LondonUniversity. He is a qualified barrister-at-law, and is the authorof a number of books and articles, including "Gambling onGrowth", Wiley (1992), and "CorporateTurnaround", Penguin Books (1999). He was one of the foundingdirectors of the Society of Turnaround Professionals in the UK, andcan be contacted via www.slatter.co.uk.
David C. Lovett
David Lovett, a Managing Director with AlixPartners and amember of the European Executive group of the firm, is a businessgraduate, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofEngland and Wales, a fellow and a founding member of the Society ofTurnaround Professionals. Before joining AlixPartners, David waswith Andersen for 18 years, where he formed Andersen'sLondon-based turnaround practice in the early 1990s andsubsequently led the Global Turnaround practice. He co-authored"Corporate Turnaround" with Stuart Slatter in1999.
During the last 30 years, David has advised all the classes ofstakeholders in troubled companies.He has led many corporaterestructurings and turnarounds in both an advisory and officercapacity serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief RestructuringOfficer.
David has extensive cross border restructuring experience and isfamiliar with the changing trends in insolvency and restructuringlegislation. He is driven by a desire to minimise economic loss tostakeholders while his clients manage the turbulence of forcedtransformation.
AlixPartners is recognised internationally as the "industrystandard" for solving complex business challenges, helpingcompanies improve operating and financial performance, andrestoring corporate value.
Founded in 1981, it has been retained by hundreds of companiesthroughout the USA, Europe, Asia and Latin America and has workedin virtually all industries and sectors.
Laura Barlow
Laura Barlow is a Director in AlixPartners' EuropeanTurnaround and Restructuring practice. Over the past 15 years shehas been an adviser to both creditors and debtors in troubledsituations and has worked with numerous companies to help themachieve operational turnaround and financial restructuring. She hastaken interim management roles in several troubled companies,restoring stability and leading the development and implementationof turnaround plans. Her current focus is on providingrestructuring advisory services to corporates, including takingChief Restructuring Officer positions where appropriate.
Laura is a graduate of Oxford University, a Chartered Accountantand SFA Securities Representative. She is a regular speaker atEuropean conferences on turnaround and restructuring and at theLondon Business School on the Managing Corporate Turnaroundscourse.