Brian Smith Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Brian Smith is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal, based in New York. He has more than 30 years experience as an operational executive and advisor relating to shared services organization design and implementation, third party risk management, business process and technology globalization and outsourcing, technology management and restructuring.  

Since joining A&M, Mr. Smith has led engagements focused on Global Business Services (GBS) opportunity identification, shared services design and planning, divestiture/carve out reorganization, offshoring/outsourcing contracting and relationship remediation.  

Before joining A&M in 2014, he was a general manager in the financial services group at CSC, responsible  for oversight of global client relationships for the banking and capital markets sector. Earlier, Mr. Smith spent seven years with TPI (now ISG), a global sourcing advisory firm, serving as a partner and managing director and held operational management roles at Citibank and American Express Bank in the UK, Switzerland and the USA.  

Mr. Smith earned a degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Administrative Management. He serves as a director for the University  of Strathclyde (USA) Foundation and the American Scottish Foundation.