Manas Tamotia

Managing Director
25 years of strategy, M&A, and operational leadership experience
Specializes in investor-focused diligence, value creation planning, and performance improvement
Cross-sector expertise spanning consumer and retail, healthcare, education, technology and services, industrials, and transport
Singapore
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Manas Tamotia is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Performance Improvement in Singapore. He leads A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement practice in Southeast Asia, helping investors bridge the gap between investment thesis and operational reality. He combines rigorous commercial and operational diligence with hands-on value creation and execution support for private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices.

Mr. Tamotia’s primary areas of concentration include commercial due diligence, operational due diligence, value creation planning, performance improvement, growth strategy, and private equity portfolio transformation.

With nearly 25 years of strategy, M&A, and operating experience, Mr. Tamotia has advised investors and management teams across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. He has led more than 250 commercial and operational due diligence engagements and more than 50 value creation planning and implementation programs across the consumer and retail, healthcare, education, technology and services, industrial, and transport sectors. His advisory and operational experience enables him to pressure-test growth strategies, identify margin and cash improvement opportunities, and translate diligence findings into practical action plans.

Mr. Tamotia focuses on growth and transformation opportunities across Southeast Asia, helping investors assess market attractiveness, competitive position, scalability, and execution risk. He works with management teams to identify and implement measurable initiatives that improve growth, profitability, and working capital performance while supporting long-term value creation objectives.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Tamotia served as Chief Strategy Officer for a Southeast Asian e-commerce company. Previously, he was a Partner with L.E.K. Consulting and head of its Singapore office, where he helped build the firm’s ASEAN practice and led engagements with strategic and private equity clients across the region. He also worked in the corporate strategy and M&A teams at Constellation Energy in the US, served as a senior advisor to an edtech unicorn, and served as an advisor to the board of a private equity-backed education company.

Mr. Tamotia earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and information systems from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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