Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Stephen A. Spitzer of AlixPartners, LLP (New York) has been elected to serve as an at-large member of ABI’s Executive Committee. An ABI member since 2017 and a member of ABI’s Board of Directors since 2019, Spitzer is a co-director of ABI’s Complex Financial Restructuring Program and is an active member of the Board of Director’s International Committee.

Spitzer is a managing director at AlixPartners, LLP and has more than 20 years of management and consulting experience. His operational expertise includes acting as the senior financial executive for a division of a multibillion-dollar direct-marketing and media company, interim treasurer for a publicly traded manufacturing company, and CFO for a private-equity-backed magazine publishing company. Spitzer has experience in establishing financial control policies and procedures, developing long-range business plans, designing management-reporting tools, and creating liquidity forecasts. Stephen has spent the last 10 years as a consultant providing restructuring leadership and investment banking services for companies in the media, direct-marketing, entertainment, manufacturing and telecommunications industries. He also has experience navigating both debtors and creditors through the challenges of a restructuring process.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.

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