Nathan is an experienced financial advisor and management consultant, focusing on providing advisory services and interim management to companies in periods of transition, as well as their constituents.  His expertise includes, among other things, transaction advisory, cash and working capital management, capital structuring, debt refinancing, cost reduction plan development and implementation, business plan development, valuation, crisis management, and bankruptcy.  Nathan was recently named by M&A Advisor as one of top “40 under 40” M&A, Financing, and Turnaround professionals in the world.

Nathan has assisted on numerous financial advisory and interim management assignments, including, among others:

• Currently serving as the interim Chief Financial Officer of Innkeepers USA Trust, which is a Real Estate Investment Trust that owns 73 hotels and has $1.4 billion of debt.  The company filed Chapter 11 in July 2010.

• Served as the interim Chief Financial Officer of Hilex Poly Co. LLC (“Hilex”), which is the world’s largest plastic bag company with $600 million of annual revenues at the time. In this role, Nathan helped lead the company through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring and had day-to-day responsibility for managing the company’s accounting, finance, and IT functions. Prior to this role, Nathan served as Hilex’s interim Treasurer. As interim Treasurer, he directly managed the company’s liquidity and working capital activities, and assisted in the implementation of various initiatives, which led to an improvement in the company’s year-over-year EBITDA of almost 50%. During his tenure at Hilex, Nathan assisted in the negotiation and closing of $535 million of debt financing transactions.  Hilex was named to Turnarounds & Workouts list of Successful Restructurings in 2008.

• Served as an interim Accounting Director for Mirant Corporation, a competitive energy company with $19 billion of assets at the time of its Chapter 11 filing in 2003. During the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring (the largest filed in the U.S. in 2003), Nathan led a team in the analysis of over $60 billion of inter-company transactions, as well as the resolution of various bankruptcy and litigation claims, which were critical gating items to the company’s emergence from bankruptcy.

Nathan has advised debtors and creditors in various other restructuring matters, and frequently assists in complex bankruptcy litigation, including matters involving fraudulent conveyances, preferential transfers, and substantive consolidation. In addition, he has extensive valuation experience in restructuring, transactional, and litigation contexts.

Prior to joining AlixPartners in 2001, Nathan was a Principal Consultant in the Financial Advisory Services group of Price Waterhouse. He was also previously a Senior Associate in the Business Strategy practice of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc., and a Senior Consultant of Peterson Consulting (now a division of Navigant Consulting). Further, Nathan previously worked at Hewlett Packard (“HP”), where he assisted in the IPO and financial separation of Agilent Technologies from HP.

Nathan holds an MBA in finance and corporate strategy from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he served as President of the Management Consulting Association. He holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he graduated with high distinction. Nathan is a CPA and has passed Level I and Level II of the CFA program.  He is a Board member of the Turnaround Management Association – Southern California Chapter. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CFA Institute, and CFA Society of Los Angeles.