Alvarez & Marsal adds Ahmed Elkomy and Daisy Fitzgerald to Brisbane team

Alvarez & Marsal has strengthened its senior team in Australia with the hires of Ahmed Elkomy, who joins from a rival consultancy, and Daisy Fitzgerald, who returns to the firm after a decade away.

Ahmed Elkomy is a Managing Director in the Brisbane office. A member of the Energy & Resources practice, he specialises in enterprise transformation and operations improvement across mining, metals, oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, and other asset-intensive industries.

With more than 16 years of international experience, Elkomy has led more than 40 advisory projects and transformations across over 24 countries, delivering more than $1 billion in bottom-line results. He works with executive teams and frontline leaders to identify improvement opportunities, build practical transformation roadmaps, and support implementation to sustain results.

His primary areas of focus include asset management, operations, supply chain, organisational effectiveness, corporate development, cost reduction, capital effectiveness, operational excellence, and capability building.

Prior to joining Alvarez & Marsal, Elkomy served Partners in Performance, where he held senior consulting roles and led its Asset Management offering worldwide. Earlier in his career, he worked at operations consultancy dss+ and held roles at construction group Boral.

Daisy Fitzgerald has been appointed a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Equity Performance Improvement practice. Also based in Brisbane, she specialises in interim management, CFO services, and turnaround. Her primary areas of concentration are liquidity and working capital optimization, business transformation, and turnaround.

Throughout her career, Fitzgerald has worked with clients across various industries, including manufacturing, consumer, food and beverage, and real estate.

Her notable restructuring assignments include some of the largest global restructurings, including Lehman Brothers (in Australia) and Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU). She also held numerous interim management roles, including for a $100 million pharmaceuticals company and for a $300 million manufacturing company.

Prior to re-joining Alvarez & Marsal – she previously worked for the consulting firm in the US – Fitzgerald was a Managing Director with MERU in New York. In Australia, she previously worked for EY and PPB Advisory (acquired by PwC).