Richard Holt is a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal in Houston and leads the practice’s corporate transformation services practice. He specializes in complex business transformation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and program and change leadership across the life sciences, services, industrial, manufacturing, construction, financial services, energy, utility, logistics, and retail sectors.

Mr. Holt partners with client leadership to drive enterprise-wide transformation and operational performance improvements. Most recently he led a $450 million operational optimization and cost takeout transformation for a global life sciences company with a focus on customer pricing, market penetration, product delivery, and G&A support. He led a transformation for a distributed commercial services company to improve EBITDA from 10 percent to 20 percent with a focus on market pricing, sales methods, product/service mix, and operational delivery. He led the transformation of a $1.2 billion global industrial services company to lay the foundation for over $120 million in EBITDA improvement. Mr. Holt oversaw the transformation’s cost optimization initiatives, including organization/segment consolidation; selling, general, and administrative reductions; procurement spend leveraging, and operational process standardization.

Additionally, Mr. Holt has partnered with clients to lead integration management offices (IMO) for complex M&A, carve-out standups, and greenfield company standups. He brings extensive experience in leading business strategy execution and program and change management. Mr. Holt is a business leader with a focus on sustained leadership results and innovation.

Mr. Holt has published several articles, including “Failure Points: Where BPM Projects Tend to Falter” in Business Finance Magazine, “Better Succession Planning Starts with Knowing Your CEO,” “Failing Your Way to Success,” “What the Museum of Failure Teaches Us About Success,” “What CEOs Can Learn From Disney's Proxy Fight with Activist Investor Nelson Peltz,” and "Reputation Repair: The Potential and Limits of Boeing's Next CEO."

Mr. Holt earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in finance from Texas A&M University. He sits on several not-for-profit boards of directors.