With 20 years of industry and consulting experience, Mr. Chen is a collaborative, pragmatic, and results-oriented strategy and operations professional with large-scale transformation, sales and marketing, technology, and change management experience. His client projects focus on enhancing sales and pricing capabilities, reducing costs, and driving improvements to deliver sustainable operating and financial benefits.

Mr. Chen has worked with clients across various industries, including energy, industrial services, business services, and software. His notable experience includes leading buy- and sell-side diligences across sectors such as waste, infrastructure, distribution, field-/technician-based businesses, equipment rental, energy services, business services, staffing, and professional services. He has also led end-to-end diligence, carve-out, integration, and a full operational turnaround of a hazardous waste business. Mr. Chen has managed multiple high-urgency performance improvement and turnaround projects in waste, business services, oil and gas, energy services, and software.

Mr. Chen helps clients address top-line questions critical to growth and long-term value creation. He led the development of detailed, actionable growth strategies across multiple geographic markets for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning platform—mapping by zip code/trade area—to support inorganic targeting, competitor assessment, as well as tactical customer acquisition, retention, cross-sell, and up-sell efforts to capture the platform’s growth ambition.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Chen spent eight years with KPMG, where he served as the Strategy Private Equity Channel Leader responsible for building and growing the diligence and performance improvement business. He was one of the key leaders responsible for developing Advisory’s private equity go-to-market strategy. Mr. Chen’s prior experience include AlixPartners, PwC, and other roles in technology and software.

Mr. Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.