Biography

James Marceau is a Managing Director in the Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Services Operations Group and was founder and leads the firm’s Aerospace, Defense, Aviation, Space practice.

Mr. Marceau specializes in value creation and performance improvement for public and private equity owned portfolio companies, with a focus on strategy, revenue growth, due diligence, buy/sell side, M&A, PMI, innovation, engineering, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, technology and value creation execution.

Marceau brings more than 30 years of A&D and industrials experience as a successful industry CEO, board positions, executive leadership roles of public and private equity owned operating businesses and decades of front-line strategy through operations advisory and execution.

His teams of engineers, operations and finance experts have advised on some of the largest government acquisition programs in history to deliver results on cost, schedule, quality and performance. For decades Mr. Marceau has led the turnaround of complex and troubled corporations, equity-owned businesses and government programs. He has advised foreign governments, program executives, CEOs, boards of directors, lenders and investors on government programs, corporate and private equity portfolio company turnarounds, restructurings, M&A and transformation initiatives that create stakeholder value.

Additionally, Mr. Marceau has been a trusted expert at the highest levels of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), all branches of the military, intelligence communities and foreign governments. He advises aerospace and defense (A&D) OEMs, prime contractors and others across the defense industrial base. He has led teams on complex aviation and weapons platforms and been a key advisor on classified government innovation and acquisition programs across the extended enterprise lifecycle.

He has worked with most prime contractors on commercial and military aviation and asset programs. His teams are experts in Operations, R&D, Engineering, Finance, Program Management, Production and Manufacturing, Supply Chain and long-term MRO(U). Industry expertise in delivering program results and turning around troubled programs, suppliers and operating companies. Recent and past clients include, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Gulfstream, BAE, United Technologies, Sikorsky, Bombardier, Leonardo DRS, GE, Honeywell, Parker-Meggitt, Cobham, Raytheon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Virgin Orbit, Blue Origin, OHB, United Launce Alliance (ULA) and many others.

Marceau is an expert in advanced weapons systems and programs, hypersonics, guidance systems, electronics, control, missiles, propulsion, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has advised DARPA, MIT Lincoln Labs, ONR, AFRL, DHS S&T, US Army RCCTO, DIU and others. Advisor to the intelligence community, government services providers, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and other branches of the military/intelligence agencies.

He leads buy/sell side teams for leading corporations, large cap, private equity, strategics, activist investors and lenders to conduct operations, commercial, IT and financial due diligence to develop investment theses and value creation plans, business plan and operations analyses, carve-outs, bolt-ons, industry consolidations, and execute on transformational business programs and post-merger performance improvement programs that deliver results. Portfolio company performance improvement programs.

Mr. Marceau earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Colorado and a Masters degree in Business Administration in International Business from University of Miami Herbert Graduate School of Business. He holds Top Secret Security Clearance with the US Department of Defense.