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FTI Consulting’s Emea chair Lars Faeste: ‘Being proud has no room in corporate life’

The Emea chair of FTI Consulting on why chaos in the financial markets holds no fears for the trouble-shooting firm

'Large scale transformations and trouble — that’s what we do'

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Lars Faeste’s last skiing race was a disaster.

“It was terrible. But I made it,” the 51-year-old Emea chair of FTI Consulting tells Financial News, laughing.

Faeste fell and injured himself part way through a 90km Norwegian cross-country race: “So I had to then do 40km in a terrible shape,” he says.

Luckily,...