Jason Kahn

Managing Director
Specializes in performance improvement, liquidity management, and finance transformation
Experienced operator, serving in C-level interim management roles
Leads organizations through strategic and operational transformation
Philadelphia
@alvarezmarsal
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Jason Kahn is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Philadelphia. He specializes in developing and implementing performance improvement initiatives and serving in C-level management roles for private equity-owned companies.

Mr. Kahn brings extensive experience in providing performance improvement and interim management services to both healthy and underperforming companies. He has a track record of partnering with executive teams and financial sponsors to design and execute strategic transformations, identifying and implementing operational and organizational improvements, developing mechanisms to monitor cash and improve overall liquidity, creating reporting packages that improve visibility and provide actionable insights, and transforming the finance and accounting function.

Mr. Kahns’ notable engagements include serving as the interim CFO for a $1.5 billion emergency medical services provider, where he executed $180 million in liquidity improvement initiatives. He designed and implemented a cash management office to prioritize and reduce spend, actively manage disbursement, and identify and execute liquidity improvement initiatives. He helped design and implement a value creation plan that led to $101 million of realized EBITDA growth. Additionally, he helped retool the company’s treasury and financial models to more accurately and actively manage cash.

Previously, Mr. Kahn was interim CFO for a $100 million international membership and education company. He led the carve-out of its finance and accounting function and the build-out of core infrastructure (treasury management system, enterprise resource planning, accounts payable, and banking), processes (cash forecasting and management, financial forecasting, KPI definition, and actionable insights through management reporting), and people (organizational design and hiring for critical roles), and execution of critical separation tasks (contract cutover and opening balance sheet).

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kahn was a Senior Manager with the Financial Services Advisory practice of EY in New York. Mr. Kahn earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He has a Certified Public Accountant license in New York state (inactive).

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