Mr. Jonathan M. Tibus

Jonathan M. Tibus, CIRA, CDBV is a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal in Atlanta, where he specializes in developing and implementing performance-improvement and restructuring plans for underperforming companies. He has more than 24 years of experience in interim management and financial advisory roles, primarily in the restaurant and retail industries, and has managed numerous in-court and out-of-court restructuring efforts. Mr. Tibus has served in a number of recent interim-management roles wherein he had overall strategic, financial and operational responsibility for stabilizing the companies and managing their restructuring processes. He also has experience advising lenders, creditors and other stakeholders, and has served as restructuring advisor to the lenders of Garden Fresh and e-brands restaurants, advisor to franchisees of Wendy?s and various YUM! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut,A&W, LJS), and advisor to the unsecured creditors? committee of a chain of furniture retail stores. In these roles, he has provided operational analysis and restructuring advisory, including detailed operating analyses, overhead analyses and bankruptcy-related analyses to help frame and manage negotiations.Over his career, Mr. Tibus has worked with clients across a broad range of industries, including retailing, restaurants, health care, construction, and general manufacturing of textiles, carpet, steel, tobacco and heavy equipment. Prior to joining A&M, he was a manager in the restructuring practice of a Big Five consultancy. Mr. Tibus is a member of ABI, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors(AIRA) and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). He received his bachelor?s degree fromFlorida State University and his M.B.A. from the University of Florida.