Charles Alsdorf is a director in the Advisory Services group at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS). He has more than 15 years of experience in valuation, corporate finance and international strategy. He focuses his practice on advising clients with strategic investment decisions and evaluating strategic alternatives.
Charles’ experience includes understanding the impact of geopolitical, strategic and behavioral issues on business performance in times of volatility and change. He has developed and implemented leading approaches in business valuation, transaction advisory, corporate finance, credit analysis and dynamic business models. Charles is part of Deloitte FAS’ practice in capital efficiency, which deploys leading strategy and quantitative methodologies to help companies make optimal decisions where there are multiple competing trade-offs and objectives – the discipline of comparing direct financial objectives with indirect objectives such as brand value, social and environmental sustainability, stakeholder perceptions and technology platforms.
Prior to joining Deloitte FAS, Charles served as vice president of technology strategy for a bond rating business with global responsibility for setting strategy on technology, quantitative analytics and data operations. Before that he was director of valuation for a global professional services firm. He has worked extensively with clients in the energy and infrastructure sector, as well as natural resources, manufacturing, life sciences, health care, technology and financial services. He has previously built a successful practice in merger and acquisition synergy and risk analysis, capital allocation, portfolio prioritization, scenario planning, decision analysis, real option valuation and multiple-objective analysis. He also served as financial advisor in the firm’s privatization and project finance practice and completed numerous engagements in such countries as Argentina, China, Ecuador, Georgia, Hungary, Poland and Russia.
Charles holds a bachelor of arts degree in cooperative management, with a Sino-Soviet studies minor, from Brown University and a master of business administration degree from the Yale University School of Management with a major in strategy and finance. He also completed an Edgar M. Bronfman Graduate Fellowship at the Moscow Economic Academy in Russia.
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