Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Dr. Annerose Tashiro of Schultze & Braun GmbH (Achern, Germany) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2005, Tashiro is on the advisory committee of ABI’s International Insolvency Symposium, is a frequent speaker at ABI programs, has written articles for ABI Journal and has been an active member of ABI’s Technology and Intellectual Property and International committees. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors. Tashiro is a partner with Schultze & Braun GmbH in Achern, Germany, and head of its International Business Recovery/Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvencies group. She has acted domestically and internationally for many companies involved in debt restructuring and turnaround in several high-profile German insolvencies, including acting as special counsel on U.S. chapter 7 and 11 proceedings and distressed M&A. Dr. Tashiro is the joint chief editor of turnaround magazine Eurofenix and is a regular contributor to International Corporate Rescue. She is co-chair of ABI’s International Committee and is a member of INSOL, the German-Japanese Business Council, IWIRC Europe, the International Insolvency Institute and the Japanese Association for Turnaround Professionals. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Düsseldorf and Keio University in Tokyo. The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://go.abi.org/board. ### ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than 13,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abiworld.org/conferences.html.