Bio

Brad Mauk is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Columbus. He brings more than 15 years of experience helping businesses best utilize technology to drive capabilities and process improvement while maintaining costs. Mr. Mauk specializes in delivering pre-acquisition IT due diligence, post-acquisition IT integration, IT strategic planning and execution and interim management. Recently, as part of the bankruptcy of a multi billion-dollar drug store retailer in the U.S. with 2000+ stores nationally, Mr. Mauk supported pre- and post-filing workstreams. As part of the pre-filing process, he led the creation of a bottoms-up IT spend baseline and point of view for cost savings opportunities to inform the bankruptcy filing and lender model. The post-petition responsibilities included organizational design; creating and executing contract renegotiation strategies based on future state of the organization; and executing strategic initiatives to replace technologies and vendors with lower cost alternatives, leveraging the Chapter 11 process to reject contracts. Mr. Mauk also has led the IT diligence of several acquisition targets across a wide range of sizes and industries, including retail, professional services and software providers. He served as Co-CIO for a private equity portfolio company consisting of 13 recently acquired subsidiaries in the commercial janitorial and property maintenance space. His responsibilities included the future state consolidated ERP; work order/field service management solution; and overall system and integration architecture. Furthermore, Mr. Mauk led the development of a transaction services agreement for a carve-out of a $600 million U.S. retail department store from a multi-banner parent company. Post-transaction, he managed development and execution of the separation plan and workstream teams to select and negotiate the future state platform, which consisted of replacements for key systems, including ERP, e-commerce and order and customer management, as well as workstreams for a new customer contact center and distribution facility. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Mauk spent several years with Avanade, where he managed a team that oversaw user interface design, web service and application development, innovation and integration and deployment. Mr. Mauk earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information science from Ohio State University.