Hayes Parker

Hayes Parker has more than 10 years of business transformation advisory and consulting experience. He has extensive knowledge of a variety of engagement types, including capacity planning, inventory and supply chain optimization, variable cost modeling and due diligence.

Mr. Parker has worked on more than 40 M&A deals in his professional career. He has experience in both buy-side and sell-side representation, distressed sales and liquidations, healthy business engagements, divestitures and other unique situations.

Mr. Parker has represented buyers, sellers and lenders, offering creative support in evaluating opportunities across the risk/return spectrum. He has experience in a broad range of industries including food and agriculture, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, business services and government contracting.

Prior to FTI Consulting, Mr. Parker worked as an investment banker for SOLIC Capital Advisors. Before this role, he was a strategy and corporate development manager for PowerPlan. In these positions, Mr. Parker worked to source, facilitate and execute M&A transactions.

Relevant Experience:

• Led sales and operations planning (“S&OP”) re-design and selling, general and administrative expenses (“SG&A”) cost reduction in a large business transformation and turnaround effort for a leading appliance manufacturing company
• Developed an analytical framework and designed and integrated a tool to manage inventory and optimize deployment of working capital for a $53 billion tech distributor, resulting in more than $200 million of realized working capital savings
• Led scenario analysis and profitability modeling for a distressed, large-scale agriculture and consumer goods company
• Led a profitability analysis and go forward tracking framework for a leading printer manufacturer brand in decline
• Led a profitability analysis for a gaming manufacturer and implemented a tool for go forward pricing and profitability management; increased margins over 20 percent through targeted pricing increases