GREG CROUSE - Key Persons
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- Managing Director / Tortola, British Virgin Islands
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Chief Financial Officer / Washington, DC
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- Senior Managing Director / Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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- Managing Director / Hong Kong, China
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the COMPENSATION Committee
- Chairman of NOMINATING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Committee
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Brandywine Senior Living LLC
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- Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Corporate Infrastructure / McLean, VA
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- Global Co - Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring, FTI Industry Initiative Leader
- Global Co - Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring, FTI Industry Initiative Leader / Denver, CO
Carlyn Taylor specializes in strategy, business transformation, restructuring and transaction-related services. She has 30 years of experience and has led hundreds of engagements. Ms. Taylor is widely recognized for her industry expertise in telecom, media and technology ("TMT"), as well as other industries, including retail, healthcare and industrial.
Ms. Taylor led the launch of FTI Consulting's Business Transformation practice within Corporate Finance & Restructuring, growing revenues 18-22% per year and creating a global practice with hundreds of professionals in a wide range of functions and industries.
As a trusted partner, Ms. Taylor takes a collaborative approach in providing strategic counsel to optimize outcomes for clients, such as AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Staples, Brinks Home Security, Lifescan, Windstream, Charter Communications, Sprint, Condé Nast, Hearst, Lightower, Securus Technologies, E.W. Scripps, Meredith, Media General, Postmedia, Trusted Media Brands, Fairpoint and Integra Telecom. Her clients also include major financial institutions and private equity funds, such as Platinum Equity, HIG Capital, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Eaton Vance, Citigroup, One Equity Partners, Anchorage Capital, Morgan Stanley, TD Securities and Silverpoint Capital.
In the mergers and acquisitions ("M&A") arena, Ms. Taylor advises on all aspects of transactions across the deal continuum involving both healthy and financially distressed targets for diverse client interests, ranging from buyers and sellers to financing sources and private equity investors. She has led over 140 restructuring and bankruptcy engagements, advising debtors and creditors on cases such as Tribune Company, Charter Communications, Windstream, Dex Media, Petsmart, Integra Telecom, Global Crossing, Hawaiian Telcom, Genuity, XO Communications, Williams Communications, Excite@Home, Qwest, MFN, Allegiance Telecom, Teligent and Broadwing.
Sought for Ms. Taylor's vast industry expertise, she has provided expert witness testimony in dozens of litigations, arbitrations and other cases involving lost revenue and profits, valuation and telecom industry trends. Among her notable engagements are the bondholder litigation objecting to the BCE LBO transaction in Canada, multiple Delaware Chancery court appraisal actions involving telecom industry M&A, the minority shareholder litigation objecting to Carl Icahn's buying the remaining public shares of XO Communications, the bondholder trustee litigation in Excite@Home and defending Columbia/HCA against a multibillion-dollar claim.
Prior to Ms. Taylor's appointment as Global Co-Leader, Ms. Taylor founded the firm's TMT industry practice and served as its National Leader. Over a 20-year period, she built a leading TMT industry consultancy, which today is a global team of more than 120 professionals situated throughout the U.S. and United Kingdom. Ms. Taylor joined FTI Consulting with the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' BRS group in 2002.
Ms. Taylor holds a B.S. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California, where she graduated as valedictorian. Ms. Taylor holds investment banking licenses from and is a registered general securities principal with FINRA. In 2016, she was named Woman of the Year in Restructuring by the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
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- Senior Managing Director / Shanghai, China
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- Global Segment Leader / Brentwood, TN
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- Chairman of the COMPENSATION Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of CC E Soci S.R.L.
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- General Counsel / Washington, DC
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- Senior Managing Director / Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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- Member of the Regional Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, Head of Germany Strategic Communications
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chief Executive Officer of Bio - Up
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- EMEA Chief Operating Officer / Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Member of the AUDIT Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the COMPENSATION Committee
- Lead Independent Director of WillScot Mobile Mini Corp
- Non - Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of FTI Consulting, Inc.
- Non - Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Life Companies
In December 2013, Gerard E. Holthaus assumed the role of Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of FTI Consulting. He has been a Director at the Company since June 2004 and served as Presiding Director from 2006 to 2013. Mr. Holthaus serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee.
Since 2020, Mr. Holthaus has served as the Lead Independent Director of WillScot Mobile Mini Corp., a leading provider of modular space solutions in North America, and serves as a member of its Audit Committee and as Chair of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Previously, he served as independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of WillScot Corp. from November 2017 until Mobile Mini's merger into WillScot Corp. in July 2020.
Prior to November 2017, Mr. Holthaus served as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Algeco Scotsman Global S.á.r.l., a leading global provider of modular space solutions, and its holding company, Algeco/Scotsman Holdings S.á.r.l., positions that he held since April 2010. From October 2007 to April 2010, Mr. Holthaus held the positions of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Algeco Scotsman Global S.a.r.l.
Mr. Holthaus is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Life Companies, a mutual life insurance company, and serves on its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Holthaus is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Loyola University Baltimore and the Board of Directors of the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.
Mr. Holthaus is a former director of the following companies: BakerCorp International, Inc., Neff Corporation and Nesco Holdings, Inc.
Mr. Holthaus graduated from Loyola University Maryland and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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- Senior Managing Director, Head of Brussels Strategic Communications / Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Chief Human Resources Officer / Washington, DC
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- Senior Managing Director / Shanghai, China
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Head of Corporate Business Development / Palm Beach, FL
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- Associate General Counsel and Secretary / Baltimore
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- Senior Managing Director / Shanghai, China
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, EMEA Vice Chairman / London, United Kingdom
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- Managing Director / Bogota, Colombia
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- Member of the Regional Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Public Affairs & Government Relations / Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Senior Managing Director, Head of Brussels Energy & Industrials / Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- EMEA Chair of Client Services / London, United Kingdom
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- Member of the Business Leadership Team
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- EMEA Chairman / London, United Kingdom
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the COMPENSATION Committee
- Chief Legal Officer of American Express Company
- Member of NOMINATING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Committee
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- Member of the Business Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, Head of EMEA & Asia - Pacific Economic & Financial Consulting / London, United Kingdom
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- Senior Managing Director, Australia Leader
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- Global Segment Leader / New York, NY
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- Member of the AUDIT Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Retired Partner at Ernst & Young LLP
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- Managing Director, Media Relations & Communications / Boston
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer / Washington, DC
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- Director, Investor Relations
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- Member of the Business Leadership Team
- Global Co - Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring / New York, NY
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- Senior Managing Director / Bogota, Colombia
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- Head of Marketing, Communications & Investor Relations / Boston
- Vice President, Investor Relations & Communications
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- Senior Managing Director / Atlanta, GA
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- Chairman of the AUDIT Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Retired Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DuPont De Nemours, Inc.
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- Senior Managing Director / Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Member of the Business Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, EMEA Client Services / London, United Kingdom
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer / Washington, DC
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- Member of the Business Leadership Team
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- Managing Director / Shanghai, China
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- Senior Managing Director, Spain Corporate Finance & Restructuring / Madrid, Spain
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Senior Managing Director, EMEA Vice Chair of Client Services / London, United Kingdom
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- Member of the AUDIT Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of Martin Randall Travel Ltd
- Member of NOMINATING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Committee
Sir Vernon Ellis joined the Board of Directors at FTI Consulting, Inc. in June 2012 and serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating, Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee.
From 2010 to 2016, Sir Vernon served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the British Council, the United Kingdom's international cultural relations organization. The British Council employs nearly 10,000 people and operates in 110 countries. As Chair, Sir Vernon led the Board and management through an extensive reframing of the organization's strategy and structure.
Prior to retiring in 2010, Sir Vernon served as International Chairman at Accenture. He spent his career at the firm in a number of major operational roles, including overseeing a period of strong growth. Through the 1990s, Sir Vernon led Accenture's operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. He also developed Accenture's relationship with the World Economic Forum, including Accenture's activities at Davos. In his role as International Chairman, Sir Vernon led the global Corporate Citizenship activities of Accenture. He was also the founding Chairman of Accenture Development Partnerships.
Sir Vernon serves as the Chairman of Martin Randall Travel Ltd., the leading cultural tours company in the United Kingdom. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Live Music Now, a charity that creates inclusive, measurable social impact through music. Until recently, he served as the Chair of Britten Pears Arts, which is responsible for the Aldeburgh Festival and a wide range of music, arts and heritage activities.
Previously, Sir Vernon served as the Chair of One Medical Group and several major arts organizations, including English National Opera, the National Opera Studio and the Leeds International Piano Competition. He has an interest in promoting philanthropy and has also recently chaired a major five-year campaign raising GBP£50 million for the MS Society.
Sir Vernon Ellis holds a Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree from Oxford University.
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- Global Chief Executive Officer, Technology Segment / San Francisco, CA
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of NOMINATING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Committee
- Retired Partner of the Law Firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- President and Chief Executive Officer / Washington, DC