Ken Harding is a managing director in FTI’s Corporate Finance practice and is based in Denver. Mr. Harding has over 27 years of professional experience in the media industry, with a strong focus on newspapers. Mr. Harding has provided strategic business and operational consulting services and leadership to newspaper and media companies of varying size. He has worked at the corporate and business-unit level to lead cost-saving and performance optimization studies for numerous engagements.

With direct involvement in well over 200 newspaper and publishing projects, Mr. Harding’s industry experience is unmatched. Harding’s recent projects have delivered value-based solutions in Advertising & News Operations, Production, Transportation and Circulation / Delivery. Harding has recently provided services to newspapers of varying scale including Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Tampa Tribune, (Chicago) Sun-Times, (Springfield) The Republican and (Harrisburg) Patriot-News. Recent Corporate clients include Advance Publications, Belo, Gannett, McClatchy, Media General, Media News Group and Tribune Publishing.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Harding was president and CEO of HARDING CONSUTLING ALLIANCE, a boutique consulting firm specializing in performance optimization across media businesses’ core functional areas. From 2003 -2006 Harding was corporate Vice President / Operations and Distribution for Tribune Publishing where he was responsible for Publishing Group initiatives and support of operations and distribution at each of the business units through local vice presidents. In that position, Mr. Harding reviewed and approved capital projects for all Tribune newspapers and directed benchmarking and continuous improvement initiatives in operations and distribution as well as other areas of publishing. Harding’s career has included ownership roles for established industry firms including designALLIANCE and Blevins Harding Group.