Janelle Beavers

BOARD MEMBER

Jenelle Beavers is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Washington, D.C. She leads investigation and compliance matters related to the broad range of federal laws governing higher education, healthcare, and the private sector. As a former outside counsel, federal prosecutor, in-house university counsel, and university vice-president, Jenelle has deep expertise in the legal, governance, regulatory, and strategic aspects of investigations and compliance. She provides efficient, practical, and translatable delivery of risk analysis, root cause determinations, and strategies for her clients.

Jenelle advises clients facing government inquiries, whistleblower complaints, and enforcement actions across regulated industries. She has led multidisciplinary investigative teams and advised on legal exposure, documentation, and remediation. Jenelle has supported clients under DOJ, OFAC, and BIS scrutiny, including a recent matter involving potential export-controlled software sales to sanctioned parties. A&M analyzed system data to isolate relevant activity and prepared detailed reports in response to subpoena requests. Recently, a global technology company and its external counsel engaged Jenelle to assist in responding to regulatory subpoenas regarding allegations of bid-rigging and federal procurement fraud, and to conduct a review into other potential instances of fraud-related schemes.

She has also led engagements for higher education institutions including fraud investigations, M&A strategic and project management support, reorganizations, strategic planning, and post-investigation remediation matters.

Jenelle served with the Civil Frauds Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she led large complex investigations and litigations including matters involving hospice, home health, and contract pricing disputes and was an attorney at Latham & Watkins in the white collar and government investigations group.

Prior to joining A&M, Jenelle was counsel for a four-campus university system and health system, providing legal advice and strategic counsel. She worked closely with presidents, chancellors, provosts, deans, human resource executives, and other campus