Florent Maisonneuve

Florent Maisonneuve is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Transformation Services in Paris. He specializes in corporate transformation and performance improvement for the aerospace and defense market and for the energy market.

With more than 25 years in senior leadership roles and in consulting, Mr. Maisonneuve has led various transaction and performance improvements. He led transactions in France and worldwide including distress suppliers refinancing and turnaround, oil major global cost reduction, aerospace service companies, supplier's consolidation and carve-out. 

Recently, over a four-year period, Mr. Maisonneuve delivered a carve-out, a merger to create a €3 billion global security leader, and the turnaround of the operations serving as Chief Operation Officer. During this period, he delivered a global purchasing, manufacturing and SG&A synergy plan. He then transformed the manufacturing boosting productivity and offshoring production and restructured the program, software integration and delivery group to restore competitiveness. 

Mr. Maisonneuve’s aerospace and defense experience includes a distress supplier recovery plan;an engine module supplier performance improvement plan; a carve-out and merger of an aircraft power component OEM; an engineering performance improvement for a defense supplier; a global purchasing and design to cost reduction program for an aircraft manufacturer; and a service strategy for an aircraft manufacturer. His oil and gas and energy experience includes an oil major global cost reduction program; an oil major purchasing synergies program; an oil service firm’s turnaround plan; a refining and chemical company cost reduction; and a refining and chemical logistic cost reduction.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Maisonneuve was the COO of IDEMIA PSI in Paris. Previously, he was a Managing Director at AT Kearney and AlixPartners for over 15 years. He started his career in the automotive industry serving as Manufacturing and Industrialization Manager in France and in the US. 

Mr. Maisonneuve earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and from Teschniche Universität München and completed an MBAE program from the University of Michigan. He is fluent in French, English and German.