Jonathan P. Goulding

Jonathan P. Goulding, CIRA, CFA is a managing director at Alvarez &amp; Marsal in Century City, Calif., and co-head for the West Region with the firm’s North American Commercial Restructuring Practice. He specializes in financial and strategic planning, liquidity management and the implementation of financial strategies for corporate turnarounds and restructuring. He has worked in a variety of industries, including retail, energy, technology, transportation and logistics, agriculture, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. With more than 18 years of management consulting, financial restructuring<br>and interim management experience, Mr. Goulding has advised debtor and creditor clients, both in court<br>and outside of bankruptcy. He has assisted clients in reviewing and preparing business plans, analyzing<br>product profitability, assessing cash flow and liquidity, and developing restructuring and reorganization strategies. Previously, Mr. Goulding served as restructuring officer and treasurer of Washington Mutual, Inc. (WMI), where he negotiated an approximately $6.5 billion settlement with JPMorgan resulting in a recovery of more than 100 percent for all unsecured creditors and a recovery for equity-holders. In addition, he was instrumental in establishing a new organization at WMI from the one employee that<br>remained after the seizure of the bank, including overseeing the development of a new IT infrastructure,<br>hiring all personnel and managing the day-to-day operations. Prior to joining A&amp;M, Mr. Goulding was<br>an associate for two years in the San Francisco office of the Corporate Restructuring Group of a Big Five firm, and was a business strategist with Viant Corp. and an associate at SRI Consulting. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.