| Steven R. Gerbsman is a nationally recognized crisis/turnaround and financial restructuring professional who has been involved in maximizing enterprise, stakeholder and shareholder value in a broad variety of industries. He has worked with a wide spectrum of senior and junior lenders, bondholder groups, venture capital and equity sources, private investors and institutional groups. He has acted in the capacity of Crisis/ Turnaround CEO, Crisis Consultant, Chief Restructuring Officer, |
| Private Investment Banker, Examiner for the Office of the United States Trustee, a member of the Board of Directors of various companies and Advisor to stakeholder groups. |
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Mr. Gerbsman has over 35 years of senior management, marketing, sales and finance experience and has been involved in various business and investment ventures as an officer, director, consultant and investor, both in the US and internationally.
Since 1980, he has been in the business of maximizing enterprise value for highly leveraged, under-valued, under-performing and under-capitalized companies and their Intellectual Property by providing and implementing financial, management and restructuring action plans. To date, Mr. Gerbsman has been involved in over $1.9 billion of restructuring, financing and M&A transactions. In 2000, he also began focusing on Israeli and European technology and life science companies, with the objective of providing access to the US capital markets and developing strategic alliances, M&A and licensing opportunities for them.
In 1999, Mr. Gerbsman expanded Gerbsman Partners' "Board of Intellectual Capital" as a resource to rapidly identify business, financial and marketing strategies, strategic alliance candidates and financing for its client companies and their Intellectual Property. This distinguished group includes nationally and internationally recognized financial, communications, media, advertising, public relations and technology operating executives.
Mr. Gerbsman has also assisted numerous Venture Capital/Equity Investors in terminating/restructuring their real estate and equipment lease executory contracts. To date, Gerbsman Partners has restructured/ terminated in excess of $675 million of real estate, sub-debt and equipment lease executory contracts and has maximized enterprise value for numerous technology and life science companies and their Intellectual Property.
Prior to forming Gerbsman Partners in 1980, he was president of four operating divisions of ITEL Corporation with P&L responsibility in the leasing, business and technology sectors. Mr. Gerbsman began his business career at the IBM Corporation in 1967.
Mr. Gerbsman received a BS degree in Accounting from Hunter College, New York and attended the Baruch Graduate School of Business.
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