Sectors:
Private EquityCapabilities:
Mergers and AcquisitionsAlberto Fumo
Biography
Alberto Fumo is a senior partner at Kearney and currently leads the firm’s global Private Equity and Principal Investors team. He has spent more than 20 years advising corporations and private equity firms across the full transaction and transformation cycle. Alberto specializes in assessing acquisitions and divestitures from multiple commercial and operational perspectives and supporting management in the post-acquisition phase.
Alberto takes great pride in assisting his clients in completing transformational deals for their organizations and their own careers. What really energizes him is working alongside them to deliver the synergies or value-creation opportunities identified during the diligence phase. He aids clients in ensuring that the value creation becomes tangible on both the P&L and balance sheet.
It’s Kearney’s dedication and relentless focus to delivering value for clients in a collaborative manner that has kept Alberto committed for so many years. Alberto strongly believes that Kearney’s unified partnership mentality and culture encourages the team he leads to successfully advise on complex transactions and deliver value creation from the early diligence stage to late implementation in a seamless way. He is proud of his team of passionate individuals spanning all levels.
Group Overview
Kearney’s Private Equity and Principal Investors practice and our clients are united by a shared objective: creating value. As the industry’s impact continues to grow, we understand the requirements, demands, and expectations of large-scale and mid-market PE and Principal investors in this competitive landscape. Our ‘value creation specialist’ approach provides clients with tailored solutions that integrate industry and operational expertise to drive immediate performance uplift to their businesses. We support our clients from a true end to end perspective from investment thesis development, due diligence (ODD, Tech DD, CDD & VDDs), portfolio-wide opportunity scan and risk assessments, transformational carve outs and M&A, commercial value creation and operational value creation by leveraging our proven High-Impact Transformation (HiT) framework to deliver EBITDA uplift strategies that provide material gains and ROI within the ownership period. We are a growing global team of dedicated industry specialists consistently serving all the top investors in every region and have supported over 1,000 portfolio companies on multiple value creation initiatives over the last 3 years.
Firm Overview
Nearing the 100th anniversary of its founding, Kearney continues to celebrate milestones, build its expertise, and accelerate its growth and expansion. Every era brings its own opportunities and challenges, and this one is no exception. Since its earliest days, Kearney has stood out because of its principles and its people. The founding partners created a company committed to boldness, passion, curiosity, generosity, and solidarity, and it is these values that the firm lives every day.
Today, Kearney’s global team of 5,700 people stretches across offices in more than 40 countries. Recent years have seen Kearney integrate Cervello, Prokura, and OPTANO into the firm to increase its expertise and accelerate growth. The company turns its purpose into action in three ways:
1. Serving clients by integrating purpose into their operations and having the highest enduring impact in each engagement.
2. Partnering with purposeful organizations to impact positive change in communities.
3. Helping people find their own purpose in an inclusive environment.
Kearney’s heritage in operations remains at the core of the firm. It is why the company has built product and analytics labs, launched institutes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, included sustainability as a founding principle in all client work, and brought together its Analytics and Digital practices to bring greater depth of knowledge to clients. It is also why Kearney will continue to offer pro bono support where it is most needed. The firm is furthering its efforts to make Kearney a genuinely inclusive and rewarding place for all, with nearly a dozen robust diversity networks operating under the guidance of the Global Inclusion Council.
Kearney aims to be the difference of purpose for its clients, people, communities, and the planet by pursuing sustainable positive results in everything it does, as established in its principle of “essential rightness.” The firm seeks to fulfill this mission for clients, in partnerships, and through daily work—deploying advanced technology know-how and talent for an ecosystem of lasting economic, social, and environmental solutions.
Kearney’s clients and capabilities are two of the golden threads that run through this entire story, bringing all the other strands together. The third is the company’s culture. No matter where you go or who you talk to, if you ask what inspires people most about the firm, the most popular answer by far is the people. Kearney’s people built the firm, and it is they who will take it into the future, whatever that may hold.