Speakers

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Brett Jefferson, President, HILDENE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Brian Newman, Managing Principal, CERES REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, LLC
Brian Trust, Partner, MAYER BROWN LLP
Curtis Arledge, Co-Head Of US Fixed Income, BLACKROCK INC.
David J. Breazzano, President, Chief Investment Officer, DDJ CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Elizabeth McGinley, Partner, BRACEWELL & GIULIANI LLP
Eric Edidin, Managing Partner, ARCHER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Ivan Zinn, Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, ATALAYA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
James H. Ross, Managing Member, ROSSROCK LLC
Jason New, Senior Managing Director, BLACKSTONE GSO CAPITAL PARTNERS
Jay Rollins, Principal, JCR CAPITAL
Jeff Jones, Chief Executive Officer, JC JONES & ASSOCIATES, LLC
Joe Farricielli, Senior Vice President, FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL
Joel Holsinger, Managing Director, FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP LLC
John Buck, Vice President, VERSA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.
Joseph J. Haslip, Assistant Comptroller for Pensions, NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER/NYCERS
Kate Kutasi, Principal/Portfolio Manager, KDC Distressed & High Income Securities, KELLNER DILEO & CO.
Ken McMillen, Managing Director, COBE CAPITAL LLC
Manish Kapoor, Managing Principal, WEST WHEELOCK CAPITAL
Peter Antoszyk, Partner, PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
Ross Gatlin, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner, PROPHET EQUITY
Rudy Orman, Vice President, MARATHON ASSET MANAGEMENT
Sheryl Schwartz, Managing Director, Alternative Investments, TIAA-CREF
Stephen Boyko, Partner, PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
Stephen Lerner, Partner and Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP
Steven Ellis, Partner, PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
Terry Newcomb, Partner, JC JONES & ASSOCIATES, LLC
Thomas S. Kiriakos, Partner, MAYER BROWN LLP
Thomas Salerno, Partner & Co-Chair International Insolvency Practice, SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP
William I. Kohn, Attorney at Law, BENESCH, FRIEDLANDER, COPLAN & ARONOFF LLP
William P. Bowman, Senior Vice President, Investment Management, HARTFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
David M. Maura, Director of Investments, HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS
Howard Altman, Co-Managing Principal, ROTHSTEIN KASS & CO.
Nishant Kapur, Vice President, CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
David Castillo, Senior Managing Director, FURTHER LANE SECURITIES, LP
Andrew De Montille, Senior Manager, Advisory Services, ROTHSTEIN KASS & CO.
Tom McDonnell, Managing Director, BABSON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
Mitchell Drucker, Managing Director, GARRISON INVESTMENT GROUP
Michael J. Egan, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, MONROE CAPITAL LLC
Paul Gordon, Managing Director, SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS
Dennis Yeskey, Managing Director, ALIXPARTNERS LLP
Mark Shapiro, Head of Restructuring & Finance, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Anand Melvani, Managing Director, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
Mark O'Hare, Managing Director, PREQIN LTD.
Daniel O. Mee, Executive Director, TREMONT REALTY CAPITAL, LLC

Brett Jefferson
President
HILDENE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Mr. Jefferson is a founding member and the Chief Investment Officer of Hildene Capital Management, LLC and oversees all firm investment decisions and strategies. Prior to founding Hildene, Mr. Jefferson was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Marathon Asset Management. Mr. Jefferson was responsible for CDO, CBO, and CLO investments in the Marathon Structured Finance Fund. In addition to investment decisions, Mr. Jefferson served as the resident expert in the structuring of CDOs, CBOs, and CLOs. The primary focus of the CDO issuance platform was to create an efficient financing program for Marathon’s various investment strategies. Mr. Jefferson has 12 years of experience in the structured finance market and 5 years experience in the option arbitrage industry. Mr. Jefferson skills include modeling, structuring and reverse engineering transactions as well as pricing, trading and evaluating secondary positions. He previously worked in the Structured Credit Products groups at Salomon Smith Barney and Chase Securities, in addition to working at two smaller regional firms in a similar capacity. In the option arbitrage industry, Mr. Jefferson worked for O’Connor and Associates, Chicago Research and Trading (CRT) and was an independent market maker. Mr. Jefferson earned his Masters of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1996 and his B.A. from Syracuse University in 1988.

Brian Newman
Managing Principal
CERES REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, LLC

Brian Newman is the Managing Principal of Ceres Real Estate Partners, LLC. Ceres Real Estate Partners the spin-off of the real estate group of Madison Dearborn Partners, one of the most experienced and successful private equity firms, where Mr. Newman was a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate. Mr. Newman has extensive experience successfully overseeing professionals with multi-billion dollar investment responsibilities. Mr. Newman has been directly responsible for all aspects of investments covering every real estate asset class across five continents, overseeing over $10 billion in real estate investments, and participating in over $7.5 billion of private equity investments. Mr. Newman’s personal investment focus has been on off-market investments in hospitality, healthcare and distressed situations where value is created by active business operations and strategic legal maneuvering.

Previously, Mr. Newman co-ran Merrill Lynch Global Principal Investments with responsibility for both equity and high-yield debt, was an Acquisitions Principal at Walton Street Capital covering all asset classes, and was an Attorney in the VC/LBO group at Kirkland & Ellis. Mr. Newman has a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from the University of Illinois where he was the Lincoln Laureate of the Class of 1993. Mr. Newman is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable in Washington D.C., and a member of the Board of Children’s Memorial Hospital.

Brian Newman leads Overwatch Capital Partners as its Managing Principal. Mr. Newman has extensive experience successfully overseeing professionals with multi-billion dollar investment responsibilities. In addition to overseeing over $10 billion in real estate investments and participating in over $7.5 billion of private equity investments, Mr. Newman has been directly responsible for all aspects of investments covering every real estate asset class across five continents.

Mr. Newman’s personal investment focus has been on off-market investments in hospitality, healthcare and distressed situations where value is created by active business operations and strategic legal maneuvering. These personally-led investments generated an equity-weighted realized return of a 41.1% IRR and a 3.2x equity multiple for his prior firm. His few unrealized investments already have returned more than their original invested equity, and were expected to return a 37.7% IRR and 3.25x equity multiple as of June 2008.

Previously, Mr. Newman was a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate at Madison Dearborn Partners, co-ran Merrill Lynch Global Principal Investments with responsibility for both equity and high-yield debt, was an Acquisitions Principal at Walton Street Capital covering all asset classes, and was an Attorney in the VC/LBO group at Kirkland & Ellis. Mr. Newman has a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from the University of Illinois where he was the Lincoln Laureate of the Class of 1993. Mr. Newman is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable in Washington D.C., and a member of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago

Brian Trust
Partner
MAYER BROWN LLP

Brian Trust is Partner-in-Charge of Mayer Brown’s New York office, and a partner in the firm’s worldwide Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice. Brian focuses on representing large institutional creditors, including agent banks and lending syndicates. Brian has extensive experience in complex Chapter 11 reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings and recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions of financially distressed companies, acquisition and divestiture of claims against and equity interests in distressed companies, and debtor-in-possession and exit financings. According to Chambers USA 2008 Brian is “an excellent technician with a comprehensive understanding of business issues” and in 2007, clients described him as “an ‘extraordinarily good’ lawyer, who ‘completely understands lenders’ needs’ and ‘provides very cogent advice.’” The International Financial Law Review (IFLR) honored Mayer Brown’s Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice, led by Brian, for its work on the “Restructuring of the Year,” in 2007 in In re. Owens Corning et. al.
Brian is currently playing a leading role in representing financial institutions in connection with (a) the worldwide financial crisis, including with respect to Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated debtors, Controladora Comercial Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., AIG Financial Products Corp. and others, (b) the mortgage industry, including with respect to C-BASS, Luminent and others, the monoline industry, including with respect to MBIA Corp., and (c) major commercial real estate, including with respect to the Levitt and Sons, LLC, Chapter 11 case , Harbor Estates LLC, and representation of the successor special servicer in the restructuring of Harry Macklowe’s mid-town trophy office buildings in respect of $1.6 billion of senior, secured, securitized debt. He has also played a major role representing senior lending syndicates in, among other matters, LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., Ecko.Complex, LLC, Marchon Eyewear, Inc., National Leisure Group, Inc., Tower Automotive, Inc., Impath, Inc., SLI, Inc., Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., IMG Worldwide, Inc., OM Group, Inc., Weigh-Tronix, Inc., Extendicare, Inc., Applied Graphics Technology, Inc., American Skiing Company, SC International Services, Inc., Interim HealthCare, Inc., PSC Scanning Inc., and London Fog.

Brian has been recognized for cutting edge work on behalf of DIP lenders in In re Tribune Company (structure described in the press as “unusual,” “new” and “innovative”), In re Lyondell Chemical Company (largest DIP facility ever filed, including first-ever “partial roll-up”) and In re AbitibiBowater Inc. (complex issues raised by securitization facility juxtaposed against Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States and CCAA proceedings in Canada).
Brian has represented significant lenders and/or investors in, among other bankruptcy cases, Sentinel Management Group, Inc., Custom Foods, Inc., a major law firm’s acquisition of Coudert Brothers’ New York operations, Sea Containers Ltd., Calpine Corporation, WorldCom, Parmalat, Owens Corning, Kmart, Allied Deals, Inc., American Business Financial Services, Inc., and Drug Emporium. He has served as counsel to lending syndicates in certain successful divestiture transactions (e.g., GenRad, Inc., Chart House, Inc., Hollywood Theaters Inc., Cable Plus Company, L.P., and Mutual Benefit Life Assurance). Brian also has extensive experience in bankruptcy matters pertaining to the real estate industry (hotels, office buildings, shopping mall complexes, condominium developments and site developments) as well as extensive experience in connection with airline reorganizations (in the early 1990s as well as the present).
Brian is a frequent lecturer and author on bankruptcy and reorganization topics. Brian is a member of the American Bar Association (member, Section of Business Law), The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, The Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, Inc. and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and is admitted to practice before several Federal Courts.

Education
New York Law School, JD, cum laude, 1986; Articles Editor, Law Review • New York University, MA, 1979 • Brooklyn College, City University of New York, BA, 1977
Admitted
US District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1997
US District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1992
US District Court, Southern District of New York, 1991
New York, 1987

David J. Breazzano
President, Chief Investment Officer
DDJ CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC

David Breazzano is a co-founder, President and Chief Investment Officer of DDJ Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor focusing on high yield, distressed, and special situation investing located in Waltham, MA. From 1990 to 1996, he was the portfolio manager of the Fidelity Capital & Income Fund, plus co-managed the distressed investment discipline at Fidelity Investments. Mr. Breazzano previously held vice president positions at T. Rowe Price Associates and First Investors Asset Management. Mr. Breazzano began his professional career at New York Life as an investment analyst.

He currently serves on the boards of Bush Industries, Key Energy Services and The Wornick Holding Company. Mr. Breazzano is co-author of the chapter entitled "Trading in the Distressed Market" in Investing in Bankruptcies and Turnarounds. Mr. Breazzano received his MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University where he currently sits on the advisory board, and graduated cum laude from Union College, where he currently sits on the board of trustees.

Elizabeth McGinley
Partner
BRACEWELL & GIULIANI LLP

Ms. Elizabeth McGinley’s practice includes advising on tax matters related to distressed investments, restructuring and joint ventures. Her broad background includes corporate tax, partnership tax, private equity and financing arrangements. During her career, she has represented major public corporations, private investors, entrepreneurs and real estate developers.
Ms. McGinley has structured and negotiated tax-free reorganizations on behalf of both targets and acquirers, advised corporate clients on tax-free separation transactions and negotiated complex partnership transactions including leveraged partnerships, mixing bowl transactions and Barnes & Noble structures. She also has significant experience structuring taxable asset and stock acquisitions and advising issuers of debt and equity.
Ms. McGinley received a B.S., Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, from Lehigh University, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Eric Edidin
Managing Partner
ARCHER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Mr. Edidin has approximately 15 years of successful experience investing in public and private debt and equity instruments as well as advising a variety of companies in financial distress. Prior to founding Archer Capital Management, LP, Mr. Edidin was a Portfolio Manager of York Credit Opportunities Fund, LP (“York Credit”) and a Managing Director of York Capital Management, LP (“York”). Mr. Edidin joined York in 2001, when the firm had approximately $1.2 billion under management, as the second hire in the credit business. Mr. Edidin helped develop York Credit as one of York’s core strategies within its current $10 billion of capital under management. Mr. Edidin focused on investing in distressed securities and developing York’s direct lending effort. During Mr. Edidin’s tenure, York Credit was one of York’s least volatile and highest returning core strategies. For 2004, MAR/Hedge ranked York Credit the #1 performing event-driven hedge fund with assets over $250 million. Additionally, York Credit was ranked by Hedge Fund Research as the #1 performing distressed securities hedge fund measured by its three-year IRR ended September 30, 2005, the quarter prior to Mr. Edidin’s exit from York to co-found Archer.
Prior to working at York, Mr. Edidin was a Vice President and Director of Business Development for Etrana, a venture-backed software firm. Prior to Etrana, Mr. Edidin was a member of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners’ global private equity investment team. Mr. Edidin began his career in 1993 in the Restructuring and Reorganization Advisory Group of The Blackstone Group, LP where he was involved in advising debtors and creditors in mid-to-large capitalization restructurings, including the structuring of numerous debt financings. During his career, Mr. Edidin has served as a credit committee member and board member for numerous companies.
Mr. Edidin graduated with Highest Distinction with a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1993 and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1998.

Ivan Zinn
Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer
ATALAYA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Mr. Zinn has executed over $1 billion in special opportunity investments and founded Atalaya to capitalize on his expertise in sourcing and investing in special opportunities. Mr. Zinn was previously responsible for HBK’s strategy to originate and invest in corporate and real estate loans and other special situation investments in a similar strategy to Atalaya’s. Prior to HBK, Mr. Zinn established Highbridge/Zwirn Capital Management’s European investment effort and concentrated on media and telecom special situation investments in the U.S. Mr. Zinn began his career as an investment banking analyst in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

James H. Ross
Managing Member
ROSSROCK LLC

Mr. Ross is the Managing Member of Rossrock LLC. From 1986-1992, Mr. Ross was President of Rossrock Company. Prior to that time, Mr. Ross practiced real estate and corporate law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York and at Holland & Hart in Denver. Mr. Ross earned a B.A. from Yale College and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School.

Jason New
Senior Managing Director
BLACKSTONE GSO CAPITAL PARTNERS

Jason New is a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group and Co-Head of Distressed Investing for GSO Capital Partners.
Mr. New focuses on managing GSO’s public investment portfolio with a specific emphasis on stressed and distressed companies and on sourcing direct distressed investment opportunities. Mr. New is a member of the GSO Investment Committee.
Before joining GSO Capital Partners in 2005, Mr. New was a senior member of Credit Suisse's distressed finance group. Mr. New joined Credit Suisse in 2000 when it acquired DLJ, where he was a member of DLJ's restructuring group. Prior to joining DLJ in 1999, he was an associate with the law firm Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood where he practiced law in the firm's corporate reorganization group.
Mr. New received a JD from Duke University School of Law and a BA, magna cum laude, from Allegheny College

Jay Rollins
Principal
JCR CAPITAL

Mr. Rollins is a Principal and founder of JCR Capital. In October 2008, JCR Capital completed a minority sale of the company to the private equity firm, Jacobs Asset Management (JAM). This capital infusion has allowed JCR to accelerate the growth of its real estate debt and equity platform.
JCR Capital is now expanding its platform and infrastructure and is actively lending and investing in distressed and opportunistic real estate transactions. JCR continues to raise additional capital around JAM’s core investment and continues to work with larger capital providers on a “managed account” basis.
Prior to forming JCR, Mr. Rollins was Managing Director of GMAC’s Commercial Mortgage “Structured Products Group.” Mr. Rollins started this group in 1999 and where he managed a $500 million balance sheet position and originated and “made and paid” over $1.3 billion of real estate bridge loans, mezzanine loans, and participating debt. The platform focused on opportunistic real estate transactions, with emphasis on multifamily, retail, office, land and industrial properties.
Prior to GMAC, Mr. Rollins was the President and Founder of Eastern Realty Corporation, an “RTC era” real estate investment company. Eastern Realty purchased over $400 million of distressed assets from the RTC and other distressed financial institutions. Eastern Realty acted as General Partner and resolved, repositioned and sold the distressed notes and REO. These disposition efforts included debt restructuring, bankruptcy, litigation and development, note sales and property sales. Prior to Eastern Realty, Mr. Rollins had a career in real estate lending with regional banks and was Director of Finance for a public home builder.
Mr. Rollins holds an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in Finance and Marketing from Virginia Tech.
He is a frequent speaker and guest lecture on real estate finance at universities and professional symposia and has written numerous articles on the topic of commercial real estate finance

Jeff Jones
Chief Executive Officer
JC JONES & ASSOCIATES, LLC

Jeff Jones, CEO of JC Jones & Associates, founded the firm in 1997. Previously, he served 18 years as a senior executive for Gould’s Pumps, Inc., a subsidiary of ITT Fluid Technologies, and 8 years with KPMG Peat Marwick. He has gained significant experience in profit improvement and turnarounds, mergers & acquisitions, information systems and internal control.
Jeff provides his extensive background and expertise to the firm's multinational, middle market, and privately held clients and has extensive international experience in all regions of the world. He is intricately familiar with all aspects of manufacturing, distribution and service operations of all sizes He is a certified public accountant (CPA) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). He has been a featured speaker at various Turnaround Management Association (TMA) conferences as well as several other professional conferences. He has also authored numerous professional articles over the years.
Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Joe Farricielli
Senior Vice President
FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL

Joseph J. Farricielli, Jr. is a Senior Vice President and portfolio manager for Fidelity National Special Opportunities, Inc. (“FNSO”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF). Farricielli manages the identification of distressed acquisition targets and the restructuring process. Farricielli is also a member of the Board of Directors at NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN), an interactive media company.
Prior to FNSO, Farricielli worked at a Beverly Hills, CA private equity firm (Levine Leictman Capital Partners) and an investment bank, Imperial Capital (“Imperial”). While at Imperial, Farricielli was a sell-side analyst for almost three years covering the automotive, general industrial, metals and mining and chemical industries, as well as servicing as a Vice President in the Corporate Finance department.
Prior to Imperial, Farricielli was a Director in the Special Accounts Management group of Scotia Capital in New York City, where he worked on the reorganization of several prominent corporate bankruptcies. Farricielli’s career began at GE Capital where he focused on the financing of lower middle-market companies in various industries.
Farricielli earned a BA in History from Salve Regina University and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

Joel Holsinger
Managing Director
FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP LLC

Joel is a Managing Director in Atlanta at Fortress Investment Group in the Hybrid Group focusing on acquiring distressed loan portfolios, as well as other real estate, debt and equity opportunities.
Prior to Fortress, Joel was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Atalaya Capital Management, an alternative investment fund that focused on private debt, mezzanine and equity investments in middle‐market companies. While at Atalaya, he oversaw investments totaling more than $1 billion in commitments.
Prior to joining Atalaya, Joel was a Managing Director at Navigant Consulting, Inc., where he was the head of the Hedge Fund/Lender Services Group. Additionally, he was responsible for running Sextant Corporate Finance, Navigant’s $250 million alternative investment platform.
Prior to joining Navigant Capital Advisors, Joel was the CFO and EVP of a Southeast‐ based quick service restaurant and casual dining franchisee with 150 units and over $100 million in sales. Joel was a Vice President with Wells Fargo in the Middle Market Lending group where he managed a team of investment professionals underwriting senior loan transaction to middle market companies. Joel began his career as a Credit Analyst with Citigroup.

John Buck
Vice President
VERSA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.

Mr. Buck has 20 years of business experience in corporate finance, business development and operations.
Most recently, he was a Vice President at hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management, where he led middle-market deal origination efforts, and supported the underwriting of numerous distressed and underperforming companies across a diverse set of industries.
He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a B.S. in Engineering, and Temple University, where he received an M.B.A with Distinguished Honors, Beta Gamma Sigma.

Kate Kutasi
Principal/Portfolio Manager
KDC Distressed & High Income Securities, KELLNER DILEO & CO.

Ms. Kutasi is the Portfolio Manager and Director of Distressed & High Income Investing at Kellner DiLeo & Co. which she joined in 2005. Ms. Kutasi brings more than 26 years of distressed and industry experience to Kellner DiLeo, a multi – strategy hedge fund group.
Prior to Kellner DiLeo she was most recently Senior Vice President/Director of High Yield, Distressed and Private Securities Research at Alliance Capital Management, L.P. Ms. Kutasi had joined Alliance in 1989 and was the firm’s senior restructuring professional.
While at Alliance she managed a team of fifteen research analysts that supported multi billion dollar portfolios of dedicated high yield, bank loan and private placement investments. Prior to Alliance, she was a Vice President at Continental Illinois Bank where she managed a portfolio of distressed oil and gas credits, many originating from Penn Square Bank N.A. in Oklahoma City. Throughout her career, Ms. Kutasi has been influential in the restructuring of numerous private and public investments, including senior debt, mezzanine investments and equity. She has taken lead positions on numerous bond holder committees, negotiating both in court and out of court transactions across a wide span of industries in the US and abroad. Transactions abroad include investments in Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia.
Kate has also been a guest speaker at the graduate school level on debt instruments and restructurings and has served as a director of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation) and of numerous restructured companies. Ms. Kutasi holds a BA in accounting from Michigan State University and an MBA in finance from DePaul University.

Ken McMillen
Managing Director
COBE CAPITAL LLC

Mr. McMillen has 22 years experience in private investing, investment banking, management consulting, and senior management of growth companies. Mr. McMillen formerly held positions with private equity firms CM Equity Partners, American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, GeoCapital Partners, Hambros Bank International Venture Fund, and the corporate revitalization consulting firm Carl Marks Consulting Group. Mr. McMillen has extensive senior management experience in technology and general manufacturing businesses and has served in senior engineering management positions at Ball Corporation and Honeywell, Inc. He serves on the board of CoBe’s portfolio companies. Mr. McMillen holds a B.A. from the University of California at Davis, and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. E-mail: kmcmillen@cobecapital.com

Peter Antoszyk
Partner
PROSKAUER ROSE LLP

Peter J. Antoszyk is a partner in the Corporate Department, co-head of the Distressed Debt Group, and a member of the Junior Capital Group and the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group. Prior to joining Proskauer Rose, he was a partner in the Boston office of an international law firm where he was a partner in the firm’s finance and bankruptcy practices.
In 1982, Mr. Antoszyk received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and in 1985 he received his J.D. from Boston University. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Florida.

Ross Gatlin
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner
PROPHET EQUITY

As CEO & Managing Partner of Prophet Equity, Mr. Gatlin is focused on identifying, making, managing and realizing a portfolio of control investments in strategically viable, asset intensive, lower and middle market companies where there are significant value creation opportunities. Ross has proven private equity investment experience having been a founding partner and principal of two private equity firms and funds focused in this specific investment segment over the last decade. He has experience across every element of the private equity value chain having led the sourcing, structuring, closing, managing and realization of investments resulting in top tier private equity returns for his investment partners.

Prior to founding Prophet Equity, Mr. Gatlin was a Founding Partner and Principal of two other private equity firms and buyout funds based in Texas. Mr. Gatlin continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for each of the investments he participated in. Prior to this, Ross was a founding principal of Carlyle Management Group in Dallas, Texas where he also helped build an approximately $1B revenue portfolio of operating companies and drive value creation at those companies resulting in very significant returns to investors.
Ross holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he was one of only two in his class to receive both the Dean's Distinguished Service Award and Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He earned his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in finance.

Sheryl Schwartz
Managing Director, Alternative Investments
TIAA-CREF

Sheryl Schwartz is Managing Director, Alternative Investments at TIAA-CREF and since 1997 has built a diversified Alternatives portfolio for TIAA with over $10 billion in commitments that includes growth capital and buyout funds, emerging market and international funds, venture capital funds, distressed debt and distressed equity funds, energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and mezzanine debt co-investments, and timber investments. She played a key role in developing TIAA-CREF ’s Alternative Investments strategy in 1997. She joined TIAA in 1988 and holds a BS in Finance (1985) and an MBA in Finance (1988) from New York University.

Stephen Boyko
Partner
PROSKAUER ROSE LLP

Stephen A. Boyko is a partner in the Corporate Department and the co-head of the Firm's Junior Capital Group. Mr. Boyko's primary focus is in finance transactions, particularly those involving mezzanine, second-lien, preferred stock and other forms of junior capital. Mr. Boyko represents a large array of mezzanine lenders, senior lenders, private equity investors, hedge funds and issuers in connection with leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, acquisition financings, going-private transactions, management buyouts and other finance-related transactions. Mr. Boyko has had extensive experience in intercreditor issues, secured creditor and bankruptcy rights, debt restructurings, and private equity investments. In the past ten years, Mr. Boyko has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $40 billion.

Mr. Boyko actively represents over 45 junior capital investors, including a number of SBIC funds, BDCs, hedge funds, one-stop shops, traditional mezzanine funds, specialty finance companies, insurance companies and bank subsidiaries in transactions that have ranged from $1 to $250 million.
Mr. Boyko also has extensive capital markets experience, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in offerings of high-yield securities, debentures, medium-term notes, preferred stock, common stock and other structured securities.
Mr. Boyko is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Turnaround Management Association.
Mr. Boyko received his law degree, magna cum laude, and his MBA, with high honors, from Boston University. In 1993, he graduated from Northeastern University, summa cum laude, with a bachelor of science degree. While attending law school, he served as an editor for the Boston University Law Review.

Stephen Lerner
Partner and Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group
SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP

Stephen D. Lerner leads the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group. He has an extensive national restructuring practice in which he represents debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, secured and unsecured creditors, equity interest holders and acquirers of troubled businesses in Chapter 11 reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings throughout the United States.
Mr. Lerner was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy in 2002 and currently serves as the Regent for the 6th Circuit. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 1997. Since 2004, Mr. Lerner has been selected for placement to the highest echelon of Ohio’s bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Mr. Lerner is a perennial Ohio Super Lawyer and, in 2007, was honored as one of the top 10 overall Super Lawyers in the state of Ohio. He also was selected for inclusion in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers in 2007 and 2008.
In addition to numerous bar associations, Mr. Lerner is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, a founder and member of the board of the Tri-State Association for Corporate Renewal and a member of the Executive Committee of the Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar. He frequently lectures on bankruptcy and restructuring issues.

Steven Ellis
Partner
PROSKAUER ROSE LLP

Steven M. Ellis is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department, head of the Firm's Boston office, co-head of the Distressed Debt Group and Junior Capital Group, and co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Finance Group. He concentrates in financing transactions and restructuring matters. He represents a large array of secured lenders, second lien lenders, mezzanine debt funds and private equity funds in all types of transactions from recapitalizations to acquisitions. He specializes in multi-tranche financing transactions. He has represented junior capital lenders investing in private companies throughout the country and Europe. Mr. Ellis spends a substantial amount of time negotiating financing and acquisition transactions and focusing on various debt facilities, including working capital loans, subordinated debt, second lien loans, intercreditor issues and distressed debt facilities. These financings are in connection with IPOs, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and going-private transactions.
Mr. Ellis actively represents over 50 private equity and debt providers, including a number of junior capital providers, SBIC funds, BDCs, hedge funds, one-stop shops, traditional mezzanine funds, specialty finance companies, insurance companies and bank subsidiaries in transactions that have ranged from $1 to $250 million.
In addition, Mr. Ellis has represented creditors and companies in finance restructurings and out-of-court workouts and has substantial experience in representing creditors and investors in distressed sales of companies and assets. Mr. Ellis has broad experience in insolvency and bankruptcy matters.
Mr. Ellis has represented several companies in large syndicated senior bank transactions. He has closed credit facilities, supervising and coordinating more than 40 attorneys and paralegals in one transaction.
Mr. Ellis has been a director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Association of Corporate Growth.
Mr. Ellis is a frequent panelist at mezzanine finance, second lien finance secured lending and restructuring seminars. He received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1984 and his J.D. from Boston University Law School in 1987.

Terry Newcomb
Partner
JC JONES & ASSOCIATES, LLC

Terry has over 35 years experience in manufacturing, distribution, marketing, and finance with both small organizations and Fortune 100 multinationals. He has worked extensively in consulting and industry, domestically and internationally, including an expatriate management position in South America.

Before joining JC Jones & Associates, Terry gained experience as a senior financial manager with Eastman Kodak, chief financial officer for a large civil engineering consultancy, and management consultant with KPMG. Specific experiences include: driving business process and performance improvement initiatives, corporate turnarounds, strategy assessments, international financial management initiatives, and information systems implementations.

He has authored articles on corporate turnarounds for publications such as Financial Executive, Institutional Investor, and Corporate Renewal. He is a frequent speaker and instructor with professional groups and in academic settings. Terry earned his CPA in New York, his MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Rochester, and his AB in economics from Brown University.

Thomas S. Kiriakos
Partner
MAYER BROWN LLP

Tom Kiriakos is a financial restructuring and bankruptcy lawyer. He represents commercial banks, corporate banks, non-regulated financial institutions, and insurance companies in bankruptcy cases involving debtors engaged in businesses such as real estate, construction, retail, manufacturing (including auto parts), hotels, restaurants, equipment leasing, meat packing, personal services (consulting), distribution, transportation, oil field and agricultural chemicals, and oil and gas drilling and refining. He also represents corporate banks, commercial banks and other clients in appeals of bankruptcy-related lower court decisions. He represents corporations and other business entities in acquiring assets in bankruptcy sales, including acquisition in diverse areas such as mortgage loan servicing platforms, women's clothing, and novelty ice cream cones. He represents official unsecured creditors' committees.

Tom’s restructuring experience includes negotiating and documenting loan and corporate restructurings and other work-out related matters, primarily as counsel to senior lenders. His bankruptcy securitization experience includes representing commercial banks (including lender groups), other financial institutions, equipment lessors, and rating agencies in bankruptcy aspects of securitization transactions, including representing liquidity lender in a post-petition securitization of credit card receivables of a department store chain. His general creditors' rights and lender liability experience includes implementing public and private disposition of personal and real property collateral, including through sales of financially distressed businesses as going concerns, inside and outside of bankruptcy, as well as advising lenders regarding, and representing lenders in, litigation matters, including possible lender-liability claims, intercreditor disputes, and possible instances of borrower fraud. His insurance company insolvency experience includes representing insurance and reinsurance companies in litigation with insurance regulators over insurance insolvency and rehabilitation issues.

Tom has been selected as a "Leading Lawyer in His Field" (Chambers USA 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008) and has been described as a “‘tremendous tactician’ possessing ‘street-smart common sense’” (Chambers USA 2004-2005), as a “sagacious, pragmatic and highly knowledgeable” lawyer who “provides excellent advice and obtains great results” (Chambers USA 2007) and as "an exceptional lawyer who does top work" (Chambers USA 2008).

Thomas Salerno
Partner & Co-Chair International Insolvency Practice
SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP

Thomas J. Salerno leads the firm’s international financial restructuring practice. He has been involved in restructurings in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Czech and Slovak Republics. In addition, he teaches Comparative International Insolvency at the University of Salzburg. Mr. Salerno was named as one of 12 Outstanding Bankruptcy Attorneys in 1998 and 2000 by Turnarounds & Workouts, a newsletter published by Beard Group, Inc. in Washington DC, and is a member of the select group of insolvency professionals listed in the K&A Restructuring Professionals Registry. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and was selected by his peers for inclusion in Southwest Super Lawyers, a distinction honoring the top 5 percent of lawyers in the region, in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, Mr. Salerno was one of three Arizona-based lawyers to be listed in The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell’s rating system.

Mr. Salerno has extensive experience representing distressed companies, acquirers and creditors in financial restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings, pre- and post-bankruptcy workouts, and corporate recapitalizations. He has represented clients in diverse industries such as casinos, resort hotels, real estate, high-tech manufacturing, electricity generation, agribusiness, construction, health care, airlines and franchised fast-food operations. He has also served as an expert witness on US insolvency law in litigation in Germany.

He has represented parties in insolvency proceedings in 30 states and five countries. Mr. Salerno headed the US delegation to the Czech Republic in advising the Czech Government in the historic revamping of its bankruptcy law, which took effect in January 2008. He has also advised on revamping insolvency laws in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. He is a member of the UNCITRAL working group on its Insolvency Law Reform Project, completed in early 2007.
In addition to numerous articles in both national and international journals, Mr. Salerno is the author of “An Overview of the Restructuring Process,” which appeared in Best Practices for Corporate Restructuring, published in 2006 by Aspatore Books. He is also the co-author of the Executive Guide to Corporate Bankruptcy, originally published in 2001 by Beard Publications (with the Second Edition due in early 2008); co-author and an executive editor of the three-volume treatise Advanced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Practice, published by Aspen Law Publications; and co-author of the two volume Bankruptcy Litigation and Practice; A Practitioners’ Guide – 3rd Edition, also published by Aspen Law Publications.
Mr. Salerno served as a director of the American Bankruptcy Institute, where he also served on the executive committee, and formerly was a director of the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, Inc. He is a past chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Arizona and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

William I. Kohn
Attorney at Law
BENESCH, FRIEDLANDER, COPLAN & ARONOFF LLP

Mr. Kohn is Chair of the Business Reorganization Practice Group and is Certified in Business Bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification. He has more than 30 years of experience in the reorganization practice, with a focus on representing corporate debtors, banks, unregulated lenders and secured parties in Chapter 11 proceedings, out-of-court workouts, debt restructuring and DIP financing. He also counsels national manufacturers and distributors with respect to restructuring debt and supplier relationships.
Mr. Kohn takes an active leadership role within the legal community. He is the current President of the American Board of Certification, the only ABA and State Bar recognized authority for certifying attorneys in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Practice nationally. He also is a former Adjunct Professor of Bankruptcy and Banking Law at the University of Notre Dame College of Law.
Mr. Kohn has endowed two scholarships at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University; the Dean John "Jack" Henderson Scholarship (awarded annually at the discretion of the Dean) and The James H. Williams Scholarship Fund. He has also endowed a scholarship at the University of Cincinnati. The E. Edward Herman-Howard R. Leftwich Scholarship for the Center of Organizational Leadership is a new program focused on corporate, union, and other business leadership training. Mr. Kohn was presented the Excellence in Public Interest Service Award by the Northern District of Illinois District Court and the Federal Bar Association in 2006 for creating an innovative program for the disabled and finacially disadvantaged to avoid filing bankruptcy proceedings. Mr. Kohn has created and is directing a program for seniors and the disabled for resolving unsecured debt without bankruptcy for the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland.
Mr. Kohn recently addressed the Annual Morris Anderson Meeting as keynote speaker on the topic of "The Death of Chapter 11." Morris Anderson is a national firm of financial advisors and investment bankers with which Mr. Kohn has worked with for over 20 years. Mr. Kohn is a frequent lecturer on topics of commercial law.

Curtis Arledge
Co-Head Of US Fixed Income
BLACKROCK INC.

Curtis Arledge, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is co-head of US Fixed Income within BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. Prior to rejoining BlackRock in 2008, Mr. Arledge was with Wachovia Corporation for 12 years, most recently as Global Head of the Fixed Income Division and a member of the Corporate and Investment Bank's (CIB) Executive and CIB Risk/Return Committees. He had oversight for various business lines in the United States, Europe and Asia, including Leveraged Finance, Investment Grade, Global Rates, Structured Products, Corporate Loan and Commercial Real Estate Portfolios and Financial Institutions Investment Banking. Earlier, he was head of Fixed Income Trading and, prior to that, head of Structured Products Trading. He joined Wachovia's proprietary trading desk in 1996. Mr. Arledge was a founding member of Mariner Investment Group in 1993, involved in fixed income arbitrage trading. From 1988 to 1993, he was a fixed income portfolio manager with BlackRock. He began his career as an analyst with Salomon Brothers in 1987.

Ricardo Koenigsberger
Managing Partner
ROCA MANAGEMENT

Mr. Koenigsberger is a managing partner at ROCA Management a private real estate vehicle focused on the REIT industry and the managing partner of Cielo Capital a private real estate investment company engaged on various advisory roles to hedge funds/private equity vehicles. He is a board member of Realty Finance, Inc., a commercial real estate mortgage company.

Most recently he was a Managing Director at XE Capital, where he headed worldwide real estate, overseeing a portfolio of over $2 billion in assets. Prior to joining XE, Mr. Koenigsberger was a partner of Apollo Real Estate Advisors, responsible for new investments and investment management where he oversaw the investment of $1+ billion in equity.

William P. Bowman
Senior Vice President, Investment Management
HARTFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

William P. Bowman is a Senior Vice President of Hartford Investment Management, joining the firm in 2005. Mr. Bowman’s primary duties involve structured real estate debt investment origination, capital markets, fund management, and third-party fund investing. He has over 19 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to joining Hartford Investment Management, Mr. Bowman worked for Citigroup Alternative Investments (“Citigroup”), where he was involved in high yield debt, equity and fund investments and in the evaluation and creation of real estate investment products. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Bowman worked in real estate lending and capital markets on the west coast. He began his real estate career with a developer in Chicago. Mr. Bowman received his B.A. in Economics from Princeton University.

Mark O'Hare
Managing Director
PREQIN LTD.

Mark O’Hare is Managing Director of Preqin, the leading source of information on and about the global alternative assets industry, providing data and analysis via online databases, publications and bespoke data requests. Preqin has the world’s most comprehensive database of private equity fund returns, with net-to-LP returns for nearly 5,000 private equity funds worldwide, available through Preqin’s Performance Analyst database. Institutional investors rely upon this database as a vital part of their fund selection and due diligence processes. In addition, fund managers rely upon Preqin’s Investor Intelligence database of LP profiles to assist them in targeting and connecting with the most important investors in private equity funds worldwide when fundraising and for investor relations purposes. Over 2,500 organizations in 72 countries worldwide trust Preqin’s data to help them achieve success in their businesses.

Preqin’s latest new service, the Secondary Market Monitor, is free to LPs and helps them track developments in the private equity secondary market, including giving them price indications for the funds in their private equity portfolios, and connecting them with potential buyers and advisors.

Preqin has built a reputation in the alternative assets industry for providing the most comprehensive and extensive information possible. Leading alternative assets professionals from around the world rely on Preqin’s services daily, and its data and statistics are regularly quoted by the financial press. Preqin has a dedicated team of 60 research and support professionals based in our two offices in New York City and London.

More information and free trial of services available at: www.preqin.com

Daniel O. Mee
Executive Director
TREMONT REALTY CAPITAL, LLC

A founder of Tremont, Mr. Mee serves on the Investment Committee, leads company administration, coordinates capital raises for Tremont Funds and oversees investor communications. He was formerly a Senior Director at an international finance company, where he was instrumental in increasing the company's presence in local markets with major real estate developers.

Previously Mr. Mee was Regional Manager with The Rhodes Capital Company, a real estate investment-banking firm based in Manhattan. He has additional experience as Senior Liquidation Specialist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation where he led the Major Assets Group. Prior to that Mr. Mee was with a Boston based real estate investment firm. Mr. Mee began his career at JP Morgan Chase Bank in NYC where he was a real estate loan officer.

Mr. Mee is a licensed real estate broker in New York State and Massachusetts. He has passed Series 7 and Series 63 SEC Securities License Exams. Mr. Mee is a frequent lecturer and panelist nationally on real estate finance and capital markets. He is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association, Greater Boston Real Estate Board and the Mortgage Bankers Association. Mr. Mee holds an AB in Economics and an MBA from Harvard University.

Tremont Realty Capital is a leading national commercial real estate finance company servicing clients from its six offices across the nation. We provide a myriad of debt and equity products and the full spectrum of advisory services. Our growth and broad market leadership has been fueled by a balanced credit and risk management culture, product and portfolio diversification, an experienced corporate management team and an unyielding focus on meeting our clients' needs. Tremont manages over $800 million in committed or invested capital. The company’s direct business offers clients a wide range of bridge and mezzanine loans, plus equity investment programs for acquisition, renovation, and development financing. Tremont’s investment banking advisory services include debt and equity placements, property sales and strategic and transaction-oriented investment consulting services. For additional information about Tremont Realty Capital, please visit www.tremontcapital.com.

Tremont Realty Capital
800 Boylston Street, 45th Floor
Boston, MA 02199
p: 617.867.0700 x777
f: 617.867.0077
www.tremontcapital.com
dmee@tremontcapital.com

David M. Maura
Director of Investments
HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS

David M. Maura is a Director of Investments of Harbinger Capital Partners. Mr. Maura is primarily responsible for investments in consumer products, agriculture and retail sectors. Prior to joining Harbinger Capital Partners in 2006, Mr. Maura was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst at First Albany Capital, where he focused on distressed debt and special situations, primarily in the consumer products and retail sectors. Prior to First Albany, Mr. Maura was a Director and Senior High Yield Research Analyst in Global High Yield Research at Merrill Lynch & Co. Mr. Maura was a Vice President and Senior Analyst in the High Yield Group at Wachovia Securities, where he covered various consumer product, service and retail companies. Mr. Maura began his career at ZPR Investment Management as a Financial Analyst. Mr. Maura received a B.S.in Business Administration from Stetson University and is a CFA charterholder.

Howard Altman
Co-Managing Principal
ROTHSTEIN KASS & CO.

Howard Altman is a co-managing principal and the principal-in-charge of financial services at Rothstein Kass. Based in the Firm’s Roseland office, he has extensive experience in the financial services arena, with particular emphasis on investment partnerships, offshore funds and broker-dealers. Howard’s experience includes advice on initial hedge fund and broker-dealer organizational structure, supervision of audits, ongoing consultation with management regarding many diverse operational and tax matters and involvement in investigative matters, including expert witness testimony. He is frequently called upon to provide input on current issues affecting the financial services community.

Howard has an Master of Science degree in taxation and has lectured before professional, industry and other groups on various accounting and tax related matters. He is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Securities Industry Association Financial Management Services Division. He also served as a member of the AICPA Investment Company Committee where he chaired the Investment Partnership Subcommittee and was a member of the NYSSCPA Stockbrokerage Accounting Committee.

Howard is the editor of the Wall Street Argus, the financial services publication of Rothstein Kass for which he has written numerous articles pertaining to investment partnerships and broker-dealers. In addition, he is a member of the Firm’s board of directors.

e-mail: haltman@rkco.com
www.rkco.com

Nishant Kapur
Vice President
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

Nishant Kapur is a Vice President and in the Commercial Mortgage Finance at Citigroup in New York. Mr. Kapur has been in the group since 2007 joining as a structurer at Citigroup. As the market has evolved, Mr Kapur has been extensively involved with Citi research in analyzing impact of various government initiatives like TALF and PPIP, Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Kapur was an Asst VP in the Real Estate Capital Markets desk at ABN Amro where he was primarily involved in loan pricing and hedging and was the lead structurer of CMBS transactions. Mr Kapur was a structurer for Banc of America Securities in 2005. He started his career in Global Real Estate Risk Services at Standard & Poor’s where he worked with issuers and investors on modeling and investor reporting for the entire CMBS universe. Mr. Kapur has a Master of Arts degree from Brandeis University in International Economics and Finance.

Tom McDonnell
Managing Director
BABSON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

Thomas McDonnell joined Babson Capital Management in April 2005 to assist in managing the Leveraged Loan Hedge strategy. Previously, Tom was a Managing Director at Patriarch Partners LLC, a $4 billion distressed debt management firm. He has over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. Management duties included active involvement with portfolio company management teams, crisis managers and attorneys to effectuate turn around and recovery plans. Previously, Tom worked at Bank of America in the Corporate Finance Group, and at Bank One in various risk management and corporate finance roles, specializing in credit risk management and structuring of off balance sheet special purpose entities. He holds a B.S. in Business Management and an M.B.A. in Accounting from the State University of New York, at Buffalo.

Michael J. Egan
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
MONROE CAPITAL LLC

Mr. Egan is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Monroe Capital. He is responsible for credit policies and procedures, portfolio and asset management operations. Prior to Monroe, he served Hilco Capital LP in a similar capacity since its inception. Mr. Egan has over 20 years of experience in asset-based lending and credit administration. Prior to joining Hilco Capital in 1999, Mr. Egan was with The CIT Group/Business Credit, Inc., for a ten year period beginning in 1989, where he was Senior Vice President and Regional Manager responsible for all credit, new business and operational functions for the Midwest region of the United States. Prior to joining the CIT Group in 1989, Mr. Egan was employed at Key Corp., where he completed their formal management and credit training program and worked as a credit analyst and branch manager. In addition, Mr. Egan was a commercial lending officer from 1986 to 1989 with The National Community Bank of New Jersey (now known as The Bank of New York). Mr. Egan is a graduate of Ithaca College with a B.S. in Business Management. Mr. Egan is also a graduate of the American Bankers Association Commercial Lending School at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association.

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