Anthony M. Horvat
Anthony Horvat, CIRA is a managing director with Accordion in New York and has more than two decades of experience leading business-improvement initiatives across numerous industries and situations. Prior to joining Accordion, he founded and led SteelgatePartners, an advisory firm focused on providing finance function consulting, interim leadership and merger integration to private equity-owned portfolio companies and corporations. Sample engagements included providing interim CFO services to a global $300MM B2B distributor, where he prepared the company for and executed a refinancing of more than $50MM, resulting in a significant dividend to shareholders. Mr. Horvat was an early member<br>of the Turnaround & Restructuring Service practice at AlixPartners, where he focused on increasing value for underperforming and distressed companies globally. His extensive client work included leadership positions at RCN, Acterna, WorldCom and Dura Automotive. His experience in turnarounds and performance improvement cross a wide range of client companies located in the U.S. and overseas with revenues ranging from $100 MM to $40 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Horvat was a member of the senior leadership team at US Filter Corp., an acquisition-focused growth enterprise that consolidated the fragmented industrial water-equipment market, eventually achieving more than $5 billion in global revenues. He led the operating integration of multiple acquired businesses, functioning in all dimensions of the strategic business process to build value. His roles included responsibility for equipment manufacturing plants to regional service operations. Mr. Horvat received the M&A Advisor 2015 Outstanding Distressed M&A Transaction Award, and he has been published in the ABI Journal. He received his B.S.<br>in engineering from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.