Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Stephen A. Spitzer of AlixPartners, LLP (New York) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2017, Spitzer is a co-director of ABI’s Complex Financial Restructuring Program and is on the advisory board of ABI’s Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Spitzer is a managing director at AlixPartners, LLP with more than 18 years of management and consulting experience. His operational experience 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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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 nearly 11,000 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.abi.org/calendar-of-events.