Jay Marshall is a Managing Director at AlixPartners, a member of the Firm's leadership team, and responsible for the Firm's marketing and selling functions in addition to his client work for private equity sponsors.
Jay is an experienced engagement manager, specializing in large corporate transformations that run the gamut from strategy to near term profit improvement to organizational development. He has significant functional experience in corporate and business unit strategy, process design, change management, leadership, and post merger integration.
He has spent twenty-two years in management consulting, applying these skills across a variety of industries. Most prominently, Jay has led a number of assignments in oil and gas, both upstream and downstream, utilities, chemicals, and medical devices. He has also developed expertise in using technology and process engineering in improving back office performance.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, he was the Managing Partner of the Dallas office of Booz Allen Hamilton, and a partner in their Energy, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Practice. While there, he also led their interest group on transformation and won the firm's Professional Excellence Award. He holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Sord Scholar and received the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence.
Jay lives in Dallas, where he is Chairman of the Board of The Dallas Opera and on the Board of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. He is also one of the inaugural Henry Crown Fellows, a program through the Aspen Institute that recognizes young leaders and involves them in intensive study of values-based leadership. He was the first Crown Fellow to serve on the Oversight Board for the Fellowship as well.
Jay is also non-executive Chairman of the board of XS, Inc., a successful Internet startup in the agricultural chemicals space and on the Advisory Board of FutureFest 2009, to be held in Cambridge, UK.
