Holly is a seasoned executive with nearly 30 years of experience providing restructuring and reorganization services to companies and their creditors in the media, retail, distribution, consumer products, financial services and healthcare industries. Before joining AlixPartners, she was a Principal with XRoads Solutions Group in New York.
Currently, Holly co-heads AlixPartners' Middle Market Restructuring practice.
In 2007, the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) recognized Holly with its Turnaround of the Year Award for the successful restructuring of Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
Prior engagements include:
- Restructuring Advisor to a children's international broadcast media and entertainment company
- Interim Chief Financial Officer of Freedom Communications, a billion dollar media company
- CEO and CRO of New Century Financial, a sub-prime mortgage lender which lost its ability to originate new loans in March 2007
- CRO and acting-CEO of Tanner & Haley, one of the largest luxury destination clubs in the US. The company had been the subject of allegations of major fraud and mismanagement. Holly stabilized the business and merged it with another destination club business within 6 months.
- Turnaround Advisor to Winn Dixie, where she assisted management in identifying and executing a strategy to reorganize the company around a core footprint of stores, downsizing G&A to fit the footprint and other cost reduction activities, and managed vendor relationships, liquidity, and business planning.
Holly holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP). She is also a past Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association, and a member of American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, and International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.