Julian Gorniok

Julian Gorniok is an expert in merger integration, carve-outs and business transformation with more than 25 years of experience across both consulting and senior industry roles. Julian has extensive experience in developing and delivering operational value-creation initiatives to grow revenues, reduce costs and improve performance, often in complex and challenging situations.

Julian has worked on over 50 transactions totalling more than $15 billion in value, and has led management teams and advised investors, boards and senior leaders on several complex, cross-border M&A and transformation programmes. These have included business case development, operating model design and implementation, business process simplification, customer service delivery improvement, customer value proposition enhancement and EBITDA improvement. Additionally, Julian has worked with private and publicly owned businesses across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (‘EMEA’) region and North America. He has also assisted corporate and private equity investors across a number of sectors, including airlines and aviation; financial services; hospitality, gaming and leisure; retail and consumer products; telecom, media and technology (‘TMT’); and transportation and logistics.

Prior to FTI Consulting, Julian was a Managing Director for seven years at Anuvu Inc., a NASDAQ-listed provider of in-flight entertainment and connectivity services to airlines. He led several post-merger integration and transformation initiatives, as well as a portfolio of airline clients across EMEA, including Emirates, Qatar Airways and Saudia. Preceding Anuvu Inc., Julian spent six years leading merger integration and carve-out engagements at PwC and EY. Preceding these roles, he spent eight years in strategy and development roles in commercial radio, digital media and pay TV corporates, as well as ten years at PwC in supply chain consulting and corporate finance.

Julian holds a B.Eng. in manufacturing systems and management from the University of Bath. Additionally, he obtained professional education certificates in M&A at INSEAD, and in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is also an Affiliate member of the Charted Institute of Securities and Investment.

A representative list of Julian’s clients include Anuvu Inc.; Ascential; Levis’s; Lumen Technologies; Nycomed; Spillers Petfoods; Unilever; United Business Media; and Wolters Kluwer.