Akshat Trivedi

Akshat Trivedi has more than 15 years of experience across growth strategy, turnarounds, transactions, M&A integration and divestiture planning, as well as enterprise transformation. Mr. Trivedi’s clients span boards and senior executives at consumer products, retail and manufactured goods companies, where he partners with C-suite leaders and boards to improve profitability and drive growth across consumer, retail and manufactured goods businesses.

Mr. Trivedi has deep expertise across consumer products, including packaged food and beverage go-to-market systems and digital commerce channels. He has extensive M&A experience working on some of the largest consumer and retail carve-outs and divestitures, including large-scale public company spin-offs requiring creation of new public companies. His specific area of focus is around shopper-facing commercial functions. Mr. Trivedi’s deep merger integration experience encompasses both consumer product and retail businesses, driving cost and revenue synergies across public and private companies and commercial due diligence across mid-market and larger industrial product companies.

Mr. Trivedi is a published thought leader on consumer and retail demand. His research on the impact of GLP-1 drug adoption on food and alcohol consumption has been widely covered in national and international media. He also co-developed FTI Consulting's point of view on how AI is reshaping consumer and retail marketing, which has drawn strong interest from consumer packaged goods (“CPG”) and retail clients in the United States and Europe and was cited in New York Times’ DealBook.

Relevant Experience:

• Led the business case development and planning for all consumer-facing functions (store operations, eCommerce, marketing and merchandising) for a divestiture required to enable the merger of a national grocery chain
• Advised a global CPG major on the divestiture of its ice cream business, designing sales and go-to-market functions for the separated business
• Led the EBITDA improvement assessment and ran the value capture office for a Canadian home improvement retailer, enabling cost take-out ahead of its sale to a private equity buyer
• Lead FTI Consulting’s team on an ongoing enterprise transformation for a global consumer food company, spanning technical model build, cost transformation and operating model support
• Advised lenders on a luxury retailer's bankruptcy, including support on transaction related work and commercial growth validation