Est. 2001·3,000+ placements · six offices · four regions
Strategic Hiringcurated sourcedetected 2026-05-08 · confidence 90%

Alvarez & Marsal: Strategic Hiring

Alvarez & Marsal welcomes leaders Bernadette Cullinane and Lachlan McDonald

Source: consultancy.com.au

The leadership read

A hiring build-out like this points to deepening the sector executive bench strength over the coming quarters.

We're in the process of making some alliances with leading institutions. We've recruited on campuses before, more in the US, less so in Europe. But I think that's where we're going to need to go. I'm hiring more junior people — I actually need grads
Antonio Alvarez III, European Practice Lead, Alvarez & Marsal · City AM

Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 98.6 (Neutral) (down 1.4 month-on-month), Oceania is at steady (+1.3pts) on signal share.

Alvarez & Marsal: 3 signals in the last 90 days; 0.2% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 3 tracked across 23 days.

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