the Phoenix office. Adkins joins Summit
from Rexford Funding, where he served as
senior vice president/national sales manager. Tharp joins from Gulf Coast Business
Credit, where he served as vice president,
business development.
Wells Fargo Capital Finance: Keith Vercauteren was hired as the managing director
of its Retail Finance division. Based in Boston, Vercauteren is responsible for managing the new business and underwriting
processes. He works with the national
sales force of Wells Fargo Capital Finance
to structure and close asset-based credit
facilities that are tailored to the needs of
traditional, catalog, and online retailers.
The Follo Wing have been appoin Ted
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barry a. Kastner
head of asset-based lending
Td bank, na
317 madison ave. 2nd floor
new York, n Y 10017
Tel: (212) 651-6135 •Fax: (212) 299-5750
Web: www.yesbank.com
mark landes, president
gateway Trade Finance
9200 Falls bridge lane
potomac, md 20854
Tel: (301) 983-2882 • Fax: (301) 983-8918
Web: www.gatewaytradefinance.com
michael William scolaro
managing director
bmo Capital markets
111 W. monroe st., ste. 20C
Chicago, il 60603
Tel: (312) 461-2116 • Fax: (312) 765-1641
Web: www.bmo.com
Tom a. smith, vice president
riviera Finance
220 avenue i
redondo beach, Ca 90277
Tel: (727) 796-5031 • Fax: (727) 726-5697
Web: www.rivierafinance.com
among
cfa
education
foundation
members
executive sounding board associates
inc. (esba) announced that it has been
engaged as financial advisor to the
Unsecured Creditors Committee of
Proliance International, Inc. (
Proliance). Proliance and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions in the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the District of
Delaware under Chapter 11 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code in July 2009.
nachmanhaysbrownstein, inc.’s
(nhb) Dallas office has relocated. Its
new contact information is: 320 Decker Drive, Suite 100. Irving, TX 75062; Tel:
(972) 739-6110; Fax: (972) 739-6113.
NHB is proud to announce that the
firm has been recognized as one of the
few “Outstanding Turnaround Firms”
in the country by the publication Turnarounds & Workouts. The NHB team
was honored in 2009 with a record
15th consecutive appearance on the
list, cementing the firm’s reputation as
“The Nation’s Premier Middle-Market
Turnaround Firm.” With the successful
completion of his engagement as CRO
of U.S. Mortgage, Howard Brod Brownstein has departed the firm to pursue
other interests.
NHB has been engaged as financial
advisor to the Official Committee of
Unsecured Creditors of Vermillion,
Inc., in its Chapter 11 proceeding in the
United States Bankruptcy Court for
the District of Delaware. Vermillion,
Inc., a biopharmaceutical develop-
ment company, filed for Chapter 11 on
March 30, 2009.
phoenix management services has
launched a healthcare practice group
that will focus on financial and operational assessments; restructuring
and turnaround; mergers, acquisitions
and divestitures; interim management
and executive search for hospitals and
hospital systems throughout the U.S.
Phoenix’s Healthcare Practice will be
led by healthcare industry veterans
Ken Doran and Will Moore, who have
over 50 years of collective experience
bringing financial and operational improvement services to nonprofit and
for-profit healthcare organizations.
