David Peck
Mr. Peck is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Investment-Operating Team in North America.
Prior to joining Strategic Value Partners in 2020, Mr. Peck was with KPS Capital Partners, a $11.5B AUM private equity firm where he was Managing Director of Portfolio Operations and a senior member of a 16-person Operations Group. While at KPS, he focused on growth and operational improvements of distressed manufacturing companies across a wide variety of consumer and B2B industries including automotive, construction equipment, metals/foundries, industrial batteries, medical technology, oil & gas, food processing/packaging and many others. Prior to KPS, Mr. Peck was a Director at AlixPartners where he identified and implemented over $100MM in sales and margin improvements to help turnaround a large U.S. Retailer and also advised on corporate restructurings and various due diligence work. He started his career as a product engineer at Ford Motor Company and then worked for several years at A.T Kearney, Inc. completing many operational improvement consulting projects.
Mr. Peck received an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business, a Master of Engineering from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.