Rakhi Williams

Rakhi Williams is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Business Transformation practice based in London. With more than 28 years of experience supporting listed businesses and private equity portfolio companies through complex end-to-end transformations, Rakhi specialises in supporting boards and senior management teams to deliver long-term value creation.

Rakhi has deep expertise in advising on strategic and financial matters including target operating model, commercial excellence, cost reduction, business planning, product development, digital innovation and artificial intelligence.

Rakhi has worked in M&A for most of her career, across the full deal life cycle on both the sell side and buy side, including M&A strategy, deal execution, value creation, carve-out and integration planning, due diligence, and longer-term performance improvement.

Prior to working at FTI Consulting, Rakhi was a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company in their UK Transformation practice and previously worked as a consultant at LEK Consulting. Alongside her advisory experience, Rakhi has held several C-suite positions, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, Non-Executive Director and co-founder across the media, technology and information services sectors.

Relevant Experience:

• Divisional CEO of the fastest growing data and analytics business listed on the London Stock Exchange.
• COO of one of the largest independent commodities price reporting agencies, delivering the carve out under private equity ownership.
• CSO and COO of largest B2B Media conglomerate in Europe.
• CTO  for the largest global pure play B2B events business. Tripled the company’s market capitalisation over three years via an end-to-end transformation before it was acquired by private equity investors.
• Launched an equity-based partnership with private equity investors to develop the world’s leading data and analytics platform for the largest commercial real estate development in Europe.
• Delivered the strategy and value creation plan for one of the largest B2C and B2B media players in the UK, after it was acquired by private investors.
• CTO for £22 billion grocery retailer delivering over £1 billion annual profit improvement after it was acquired by private equity investors.
• Developed several new international and retail services businesses through acquisition, joint ventures and organic entry for leading £68 billion UK grocery retailer in Asia, North America and Eastern Europe.