Neel Malkani

Neel Malkani works with investors, lenders, boards and chief executives to address operational complexity, financial pressure, strategic inflection points and transactional challenges. Mr. Malkani brings more than 20 years of experience, with a focus on practical, executable solutions grounded in real operating environments, not theoretical recommendations.

Mr. Malkani has experience across the full investment lifecycle, from conducting diligence and driving post-close implementation and mid-cycle performance improvement to supporting exit readiness. His work across turnarounds, transformations and transactions has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in measurable financial impact and increased enterprise value — translating operational, financial and strategic complexity directly into tangible outcomes and long-term business performance.

Throughout his career, Mr. Malkani has worked with over 100 unique businesses across more than 15 countries, gaining perspective into how diverse industries, cultures and management operating systems impact results — and how operational decisions translate directly into financial outcomes.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Malkani served as Managing Director, Private Capital, at Maine Pointe. Previously, he held leadership roles in operations, transformation, finance and business development at Clarendon Partners, DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, High Performance Technologies and Accenture.

Relevant Experience:

• Conducted multisite operational due diligence for a power solutions manufacturer, recycler and distributor, assessing local leadership, operational performance, utilization and infrastructure that led to a more than $10 billion transaction
• Drove labor efficiencies while improving safety, quality, schedule and customer service for a nuclear fuel manufacturer across the United States and Europe, generating more than $12 million in benefits through KPI development, performance swim lanes, reliability, capacity balancing and standard work
• Delivered an enterprise-wide procurement transformation for a post-bankruptcy food and entertainment operator with more than 500 locations, generating more than $14 million in benefits through category excellence, supplier conditioning and spend visibility
• Improved operational performance for a large-scale consumer products distributor, generating more than $10 million in benefits through lower costs, increased productivity, improved fulfillment and reduced dock-to-stock cycle times
• Aligned KPIs to value creation for an aftermarket auto parts manufacturer with plants in Texas and Mexico, generating more than $5 million in benefits through bottleneck identification, data-driven decision-making, lower material costs, increased productivity, streamlined cross-border flow and improved on-time delivery