Bio

David Jones is a Managing Director and Partner of Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement practice in London. He brings over 30 years of experience in the oil, chemicals and wider process industries as an operator and advisor. Specialising in pre-deal operational due diligence (ODD), Mr. Jones leverages his advisory and operational experience. He led many of the recent marquee acquisitions by private equity funds in the industrials space, including the team on Lonza Specialty Ingredients, Bayer Environmental Science, BASF Construction Chemicals, Lanxess Leather, all within the chemicals space, and National Grid Gas, Cadent, ContourGlobal in the utilities and infrastructure space. He also led on other industrial, consumer goods and blue-collar businesses services targets such as Weir Flow Control and Chubb Fire & Security. Mr. Jones has also led numerous performance improvement engagements covering markets such as polymers, soda ash, pigments in the chemicals markets, oil refining, consumer goods, food and packaging. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Jones was the founder of Industrial Commercial Ventures (ICV) a niche advisor to European and North American private equity funds and corporates. Previously, Mr. Jones spent 15 years with BP, working in production, business development, strategy, trading and commercial leadership and covering all of upstream exploration and production (E&P), mid-stream, downstream oil refining, oil trading and chemicals. Mr. Jones was also Commercial Director in BP's carve-out of its Base Chemicals division (Innovene). Mr. Jones earned a joint bachelor’s and master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bradford and an MBA from London Business School. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer.