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Patrick Gilrane Mr. Gilrane is a member of the Advisory Board of Schultze
Asset Management, LLC. Mr. Gilrane has extensive experience in private equity,
corporate finance and operations in consumer products, retailing and
manufacturing. He is Chairman and CEO of Empyrean International
(www.emp-apf.com) a designer and fabricator of custom luxury prefab homes.
Mr. Gilrane is Founder and CEO of The Wentworth Group LLC, a private equity
investment and advisory firm. Mr. Gilrane was a senior executive with Blyth,
Inc., (NYSE: BTH) a $1.2B sales a home fragrance consumer products,
manufacturing and distribution company. He is also an Advisory Director of Cypress
Associates, a boutique investment bank. Mr. Gilrane earned an MBA from A. Michael Lipper Mr. Lipper
is a member of the Advisory Board of Schultze Asset Management, LLC. A. Michael
Lipper is the founder and president of Lipper Advisory Services, Inc., an SEC
registered investment advisor providing counsel and management of accounts
investing in mutual funds, and separate account managers. Mr. Lipper has been active in various industry associations. For the 1993-1994 term, he served as
President of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), and served on
the Society’s Board for some part of each of the last four decades. In May of 2003, he was reelected to the
NYSSA Board. Mr. Lipper’s “pro bono” activities include
serving as Chairman of the Investment Sub-committee of Atlantic Health
Systems, as a Trustee of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Chairman
of its Investment Committee, and as a Trustee of the California Institute of
Technology. * Chartered Financial Analyst April 22, 2009 Robert G. Rusk Mr. Rusk is a Managing Director of Cypress Associates, LLC, an
investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring
and other financial advisory transactions, and capital raising. He has over
20 years experience in M&A, capital markets, leveraged finance, private
equity, restructuring and distressed investing. Mr. Rusk has led teams in
structuring and executing transactions with a value in excess of $30 billion
in a variety of industries including automotive supply, consumer products,
energy, healthcare, industrial, independent power, retailing, technology, and
utilities. Previously, he founded Sleepy Hollow Capital Partners, LLC, a
boutique advisory and private equity firm, in 2001. Prior to that was a
Managing Director in the investment banking department of CIBC World Markets,
and an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co. and at Bankers Trust
Company. Mr. Rusk earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and
a B.A. from
Mr. Schwarz, is a member of the Advisory Board of Schultze
Asset Management, LLC and was formerly a Senior Vice President and Director
of Kidder He has served as a Governor of both the Union League Club of
New York and the Westchester Country Club. Mr. Schwarz was a Trustee of The
School of the Holy Child 1988-1998. He served as the President of the Duke
University Alumni Association and as a Trustee of Duke University 1998-2000. Phillip B. Smith Mr. Smith, is a member of the Advisory Board of Schultze Asset
Management, LLC. Mr. Smith served as
Vice Chairman of the Board of Spencer Trask Securities Incorporated, an
investment banking firm. Mr. Smith is a founding General Partner of Lawrence Venture
Associates, a venture capital limited partnership headquartered in Mr. Smith is a founder and served as President and Chief
Executive officer of Citicorp Venture Capital. While at Citicorp he was
involved with many high profile turnarounds and restructuring. Among others,
these deals included: Federal Express, Tax Corp of In 1988, Mr. Smith founded and is currently the managing
general partner of Private Equity Partnership, L.P. He is also founder of IQ Ventures,
a venture investment bank focusing on early stage commitments. He is also a
founder of Arete Funds, the General Partner of the U-Tech Fund, L.P. and the
MicroGen Fund, L.P. where he serves in several executive capacities. Mr. Smith is a director of the following publicly held
companies: KLS EnviroResources, Inc., Digital Video Systems, Inc., Careside,
Inc., and MovieGallery, Inc. He also serves as an adjunct professor at
Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Smith earned an MBA from Grant F. Stoddart Mr. Stoddart, is a member of the Advisory Board of Schultze
Asset Management, LLC. He is currently the CEO of Sharp Performance USA
Inc. He was formerly an Executive Vice
President, The Americas, for The Royal Bank of Scotland plc where he
represented the $4.6 billion business for the bank in the Mr. Stoddart joined the Royal Bank in 1974 and held various
branch positions in Mr. Stoddart actively handled numerous Workout /Distressed
debt situations covering a significant number of industrial sectors including
but not limited to Food Distribution, Restaurant, Power, Retail, Convenience
Stores, Automotive, Housing Products, Real Estate, Healthcare, Financial,
Manufacturing and Clothing. He is well known to senior individuals in the
financial and workout community together with the distressed trading side of
the business. Mr. Stoddart earned a BA Commerce degree from Carl M. Youngman Mr. Youngman is on the Advisory Board of Schultze Asset Mgmt.,
LLC. He is Founder of Youngman & Charm, a private equity investment
management and consulting firm. Mr. Youngman is respected as one of the deans
of corporate renewal in Some of the brand names he has helped guide include: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Mr. Youngman is an active member of several professional
associations and was a founder and former Vice-Chairman of the Turnaround
Management Association. He also holds the designation of Turnaround
Management Professional (TMP). He is a speaker at various industry forums and
lecturer at area business schools. Mr. Youngman earned an MBA from The Harvard Business School
and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. |
