Turning Liquidity Challenges Into Growth Opportunities

Nikhil Shah is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and leads the turnaround & restructuring practice in India. He has played an integral role in several high profile turnarounds, performance improvement, distressed M&A and financial restructuring projects and brings more than 15 years serving public and privately owned companies.

He has led several complex engagements across a range of industries including steel, power, infrastructure, transportation, telecom, financial services, consumer electronics, chemicals, technology and textiles across North America and Asia. He has also authored several white papers on the stressed asset market including Outlook for Stressed Asset Market in India and Asset Reconstruction Companies: Small Steps on a Long Road Ahead. Mr. Shah has also advised the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee and Joint Parliamentary Committee on drafting of the Indian Insolvency & Bankruptcy Act of 2016. He is currently serving the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on implementation of the new insolvency & bankruptcy code.

At A&M, Mr. Shah has led a number of notable restructuring and interim management assignments: advised Jet Airways, one of India's leading airlines on a comprehensive turnaround; served as interim CRO at Bharati Shipyard, a leader in the ship building industry in India; served as interim CEO of one of India's largest owned fleet transportation companies to improve performance of their repair and maintenance facilities; advised one of the largest mobile handset providers in India on a finance function reorganization through improvements in cash flow management, working capital, reporting and internal controls; acted as the interim CFO for OCM India, a leading fabric manufacturer in India owned by large global private equity fund; and served as interim country manager for Lehman Brothers in India and Mauritius, managing over 15 Lehman entities with investments in India totaling $1.3 billion.

Prior to A&M, Mr. Shah was a founding director of Elbee Express, an express delivery company based in Mumbai with more than 130 branches and 1,500 employees across India. He began his professional career in investment banking with Jefferies & Co. in New York, completing distressed M&A and financial restructuring transactions totaling over $5 billion.

Mr. Shah earned a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. A U.S. and U.K. national, he is fluent in English and Hindi.

Vivek Kamra is a Managing Director with A&M’s performance improvement and restructuring business in India. He has 27 years of experience in leadership positions in steel, automotive construction and logistics industries in India and South East Asia.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kamra served as the President – India Operations at JK Tyre and Industries Ltd., a leading tyre manufacturer in India. In this role, he led several transformative initiatives in operations, M&S, supply chain, human resources and communications with a strong focus on driving a technological shift in mindset and process management. He put in place a strong management and review structure to enable ambitious continuous performance improvement.

Mr. Kamra served at Tata Steel for 25 years where he served as President & CEO of Natsteel Holdings Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel in South East Asia with operations in Singapore, China, Vietnam, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. He also served on the board of Tata Steel Thailand and Tata Steels Global Wires Business.  In Singapore, Mr. Kamra also served on the National Workplace Safety and Health Council of Singapore.

His first P&L role was as the Executive-In-Charge Tata Steel Tubes Division in Jamshedpur; the steel tube and pipes arm of the steel company which supplied components to the automotive industry, structural sections for specialized construction and conveyance pipes for the building and construction industry.

Mr. Kamra also served as the Chief of Supply Chain (Customer Service Division) at Tata Steel and led a supply chain transformations at Tata Steel, Tubes Business, NatSteel and at JK Tyres.​

A graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, in Metallurgical Engineering he has completed an Advanced Senior Management Program at the Centre of Executive Development (CEDEP), INSEAD Campus and a One Year Business Management Program from XLRI Jamshedpur. Vivek is also a Chevening Scholar awarded by the British Council of India for Young Managers a study program at Leeds University.