About Alistair
Expertise
Alistair Corbett is a partner based in Bain & Company's Toronto office, focused on serving clients in the Mining and Paper & Packaging sectors. He joined the firm in London in 1989.
Alistair leads Bain’s global Mining practice. He has extensive experience in a range of mining commodities, including gold, copper, nickel, iron ore and coal. He focuses on serving clients primarily in North America, but also in South America.
Alistair brings clients 30 years of consulting experience. He has particularly deep expertise in supporting clients in achieving their strategic and operational full potential value from existing operations, as well as from the design and execution of new capital projects. He developed Bain’s proprietary value-driven approach to diagnose, design and deliver results for clients in mining and forest products.
He also holds deep expertise in growth strategy, including strategic portfolio optimization, capital allocation, M&A, investment evaluation, diligence and merger integration.
Alistair holds a 1st class honours degree in engineering and a masters’ degree in operational research, both from Cambridge University, as well as an MBA (with distinction) from INSEAD.
Recent Insights
- “Has Your Company Sprung a Revenue Leak?,” Article, June 2005
- “Smart deal-making,” Article, April 2005
- “Three Steps to Avoiding Merger Meltdown,” Article, March 2005
- “Hard-core Growth: Bain and Company's research shows how smart companies profit from their core business-and beyond,” Article, April 2004
- “The Right Ways to Grow,” Article, April 2003