Global Leaders

Kris Talgo is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal based in New York. Mr. Talgo brings 35 years of experience leading investment, trading and sales functions within the financial services industry, and serving as a senior client and investor liaison and an institutional equity expert.

Sankar Krishnan, a Managing Director and Co-Head of Alvarez & Marsal India, has more than 40 years of management experience and financial and operations expertise. He has served clients across the retail, manufacturing, construction, facility management, telecom and information technology sectors.

Xuong Liu is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Transaction Advisory Group in Shanghai.

Cathleen (Cathy) Hernandez, a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Dallas, brings a wide array of healthcare operational and acquisition experience to the firm. She focuses on driving strategic planning, operational and financial performance improvement.

Tariq Hameed is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Financial Institutions Advisory Services practice in Dubai. He has more than two decades of experience in the financial industry sector, spanning Asia, the U.K. and the Middle East, at global financial institutions including Standard Chartered, Citibank and the Islamic Development Bank Group.

Gonzalo Grillo is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Brazil in São Paulo. He specializes in crisis management and interim management, acting on several occasions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of national and international companies.

Mark Belanger is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Corporate Finance in New York. He brings more than 15 years of investment banking experience, advising companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and financings.

Sean Farnan is the Chief Operating and Financial Officer for Alvarez & Marsal's Global Transaction Advisory Group. He has been involved in professional services operations for nearly 10 years in addition to accumulating more than a decade of client service with public accounting and consulting firms. He oversees the day-to-day financial management and operations of A&M's Transaction Advisory Group practices in the U.S., Europe, India, Asia and Latin America. Additionally, he serves on the Transaction Advisory Group Executive Committees in the U.S. and Europe.