Kurt Steltenpohl

Kurt Steltenpohl

Managing Director

Kurt Steltenpohl is a Managing Director in the New York office of Kroll and leads the Operational Consulting practices in Financial Advisory. Kurt has 25 years of experience advising corporation executives and private equity firms on company operational strategy in transactions, turnaround, and distressed situations.

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Kurt specializes in manufacturing and services sectors, including consumer product, industrial, auto, aerospace, and technology.  He drives performance improvement through effective and efficient strategy and planning, production, logistics, IT and infrastructure.  He has significant experience working on pre-deal diligence and post-deal integration in support public and private equity transactions. He also is frequently involved in pre-distressed business situations to drive organizational and operational restructuring initiatives including serving in interim COO or other management roles.

Prior to joining Kroll, Kurt was a director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Services, where he led operations diligences identifying EBITDA and working capital opportunities in mid-market companies for private equity clients. Before working with Alvarez & Marsal, he drove enterprise and shop floor transformations as a strategy and operations consultant with the boutique firm PRTM and later PwC.

Kurt has an MBA, MS, and BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, and served as a U.S. Navy submarine officer. 


Corporate Finance and Restructuring

M&A advisory, restructuring and insolvency, debt advisory, strategic alternatives, transaction diligence and independent financial opinions.

Transaction Advisory Services

Kroll’s Transaction Advisory Services platform offers corporate and financial investors with deep accounting and technical expertise, commercial knowledge, industry insight and seamless analytical services throughout the deal continuum.

Operations Advisory Services

Operational process improvement to increase company value in Transactions, Expansion, and Turnaround.


IT Due Diligence

Dedicated IT due diligence team to minimize risk and optimize portfolio value of a company for M&A transactions.

Valuation Services

When companies require an objective and independent assessment of value, they look to Kroll.

Transfer Pricing

Kroll's team of internationally recognized transfer pricing advisors provide the technical expertise and industry experience necessary to ensure understandable, implementable and supportable results.


Tax Services

Built upon the foundation of its renowned valuation business, Kroll's Tax Service practice follows a detailed and responsive approach to capturing value for clients.

Investigations, Diligence and Compliance

Kroll’s Investigations, Diligence and Compliance practice leverages our best-in-class multi-disciplinary team to help businesses, law firms, financial institutions, private equity firms, government agencies, non-profit organizations and individuals meet their most critical challenges.

Enterprise Security Risk Management

Kroll’s Enterprise Security Risk Management practice provides expert guidance and advisory services to our global clientele as they navigate the most challenging and emerging security and threat-related issues.