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Alvarez & Marsal: Strategic Hiring
Alvarez & Marsal welcomes leaders Bernadette Cullinane and Lachlan McDonald
Source: consultancy.com.au
- Who
- Alvarez & Marsal · Australia & New Zealand
- What happened
- Alvarez & Marsal welcomes leaders Bernadette Cullinane and Lachlan McDonald
- When
- 2026-05-08
- Source
- consultancy.com.au
- So what
- Alvarez & Marsal is resourcing ahead of a step-change, not backfilling.
The leadership read
Alvarez & Marsal is resourcing ahead of a step-change, not backfilling. A build-out like this concentrates senior bench strength in the sector where the mandate is strongest. Watch the mix of the hires across Oceania; that is the clearest read on the plan behind the headcount.
“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”
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 109 (Hot) (up 7.3 month-on-month), Oceania is at easing (-5.9pts) on signal share.
Alvarez & Marsal: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 5 tracked across 143 days.
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