Professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has appointed David Champeaux as a London-based managing director to lead and grow digital solutions that create value for EMEA healthcare and life sciences companies.

Champeaux has more than 25 years’ advisory and operational experience in the healthcare and life sciences sectors, across EMEA, the US and Australia, including work with several national healthcare services. He has also collaborated with technology start-ups and private sector suppliers to the healthcare sector on developing and bringing novel products and services to market.

Champeaux was previously a partner at McKinsey leading its digital healthcare offering. He was also a managing director heading Accenture’s healthcare strategy in the UK and Ireland and he has held leadership roles with digital start-ups in the digital healthcare, mobile communications, logistics and digital storage equipment sectors.

Jean-Laurent Poitou, managing director of A&M’s digital business in EMEA, said: “Over the last four years, we have tripled our EMEA revenues and number of professionals. David’s appointment reflects the firm’s ongoing commitment to invest in digital capabilities that support this growth trajectory. Sustainable digital solutions must be scalable and generate long-term value. David’s leadership will help our EMEA-based healthcare and life sciences clients seize digital’s operational and transformational power to realize their objectives.”

Champeaux commented: “A&M serves as a digital accelerator that helps clients unlock growth and savings and improve patient access, outcomes and workforce experience without compromising other areas of their business. Disruption and digitalisation will continue to create ripples of challenge and change across healthcare and life sciences. Navigating these shifts requires the pragmatic reconfiguration of workflows, skills, organisation and incentive models, that A&M’s operational and digital know how foundation allows us to deliver.”