Senior experience for consequential situations.

Tony has spent more than four decades in restructuring, distressed transactions, and fiduciary roles, and has led Traxi and its predecessor firm since 1994.

He serves as a financial adviser, crisis manager, and court-appointed fiduciary to companies, boards, lenders, and creditor groups, and has been appointed Examiner, Trustee, and Plan Administrator. He also takes operating roles, including as Chief Financial Officer of a homebuilder through its Chapter 11. On a multi-year asset-recovery mandate for a Fortune 100 telecommunications manufacturer, he recovered more than $350 million in cash and repossessed nearly $100 million of equipment.

Tony has served on public and private company boards, including as a director of FLAG Telecom Group Limited, where he sat on the compensation committee and on the special committee that negotiated the company’s sale. He began his career as a law clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and spent eleven years in workout and asset recovery at First Fidelity Bank.

Bob brings more than 30 years of financial, operational, and business consulting experience, with particular depth in hands-on turnarounds and owner-led companies.

Bob has restructured businesses in distribution, manufacturing, real estate, fast food, casual and fine dining, construction, apparel, and many other industries, and has a specialty in advising family-owned companies.

Prior to joining Traxi, Bob served as President of Scalamandré Silks, Inc., a luxury home furnishing design and marketing company. He was formerly a principal in the turnaround consulting firm Nachman Hays Brownstein Inc. and a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC). He has served on many nonprofit boards, was chairman of the March of Dimes North Jersey Chapter, and was an officer in the Army National Guard.

Lee works at the point where financial distress becomes a stakeholder problem, having spent over 20 years guiding organizations through a range of special situations.

He advises companies, sponsors, and boards on the underlying financial and operational choices in a distressed situation — liquidity and cash forecasting, restructuring alternatives, and operating plan validation — as well as on what lenders, customers, vendors, employees, courts, and the press will conclude from each decision, and on how to sequence communication so that operating and financial execution is not undermined by avoidable noise. His experience spans retail and consumer, media, energy, technology, telecommunications, health care, higher education, and professional services, and includes several of the most high-profile private credit distress events of recent years.

Lee previously worked at Bloomberg, where he designed and launched the multimedia channel for Bloomberg Law and created and hosted several of its programs. He produces and hosts Unordinary Course, the podcast of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Business Reorganization Committee, where he serves as Special Projects Leader. He most recently served as a Managing Director at ICR, where he led the Turnaround, Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice, and began his career as a law clerk to the Hon. Raymond T. Lyons in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.

Karthik helps management teams, boards, lenders, and sponsors reach rapid, well-informed decisions through rigorous financial and operational analysis.

He has more than 17 years of experience working with clients across a wide variety of industries to evaluate the financial and operational impact of potential courses of action. Over his career he has worked with company management and boards of directors, employee groups, secured lenders, and private equity sponsors, and builds bespoke financial materials that help stakeholder groups move quickly and effectively.

Karthik’s industry experience includes education, manufacturing, financial services, transportation, medical equipment, and forestry products, with clients ranging from small family-owned businesses to large public companies.

Jonathan brings direct private equity, private credit, restructuring, and portfolio-company operating experience to lower-middle-market special situations.

He has led and overseen investments, restructurings, refinancings, and exits across a wide range of industries, in both performing and distressed situations. He was previously Head of Asset Management at Metropolitan Partners Group, where he oversaw more than $1 billion of assets and managed the firm’s full portfolio through restructurings, amendments, and exits.

Earlier in his career, Jonathan held investing and operating roles at Kuzari Group and St. Cloud Capital, serving as CFO, Acting CEO, and board member of multiple portfolio companies. He began his career in investment banking and private equity, including roles at Houlihan Lokey, Shamrock Capital Advisors, and Macquarie Group. He is based in Miami, Florida.

Paul’s experience spans investment banking, distressed asset acquisition, workout and recovery, securitization, high-yield structured finance, equity joint ventures, and fundraising.

He has handled over $10 billion in distressed assets, loans, and securities. Paul is Executive Managing Director at Greystone Bassuk, a real estate capital intermediary and financial advisor to major developers.

Previously, Paul was at L&L Holding Co., where he headed the company’s capital raising activities and was responsible for raising in excess of $2.5 billion of equity across its portfolio. Prior to that he was a Principal with AFC Realty Capital, where he originated high-yield structured real estate financings and spearheaded the firm’s restructuring practice. He was also a Principal of Allegiance Capital Partners and a Director at Deutsche Banc Mortgage Capital.

Gary brings senior real estate investment, capital markets, and transaction experience to situations involving complex financing and asset-level decisions, with particular expertise in sourcing institutional and offshore capital for real estate development.

Gary is President of the Florida Fund LLC, an affiliate of ARCTRUST, a private REIT focused on the acquisition and development of net-leased properties. Before that he was a Managing Director at Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, a private New York-based real estate investment manager, and previously a Managing Director at Jones Lang Wootton, North America (now Jones Lang LaSalle), where he served on the Executive Committee and as co-head and partner of its Investment Sales and Finance Group.

Robert brings more than 30 years of supply chain, supplier quality, and manufacturing operations experience to complex, multi-tier industrial and defense supply chains.

Most recently, Robert served as a Manager in Digital Technology at RTX Corporation for Enterprise Applications addressing the needs of Internal Production Facilities, External Suppliers and Enterprise Leadership.

Prior to that, Robert served as Manager of Supplier Quality Assurance and Supplier Development at UTC Aerospace Systems, where he led supplier development strategy across the company’s supplier base and served as corporate lead for its Supplier Health Assessment Program, a diagnostic and predictive tool used by thousands of suppliers to reduce defects, recover schedule, and build production resilience.

Earlier in his career, Robert held senior quality, operations, and engineering roles at the Aerosance Division of Teledyne Technologies and the Hamilton Sundstrand Division of United Technologies, managing supply chains, production lines and quality assurance for critical flight-control and engine product lines. He also ran his own manufacturing engineering and quality assurance consulting practice, advising aerospace suppliers on AS9100 compliance and process improvement.

Robert has presented 3 papers at International Conferences on Statistical Process Control and achieving 6 Sigma Production.