Flip Huffard Senior Managing Director The Blackstone Group www.blackstone.com

Flip Huffard is a Senior Managing Director in the Restructuring & Reorganization Advisory group at The Blackstone Group. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, Mr. Huffard has worked on a variety of restructuring and reorganization assignments, for companies, creditor groups, corporate parents of troubled companies and acquirers of distressed assets.

These assignments include Fleming Companies, New World Pasta, Legerity, Crown Pacific, Dade Behring, Inc., Alestra, Mattress Discounters, The LTV Corporation, Excite@Home, AT&T Canada, Harnischfeger Industries, Inc., Loehmann's Inc., Montgomery Ward Holding Corp., Levitz Furniture Inc., ContiFinancial Corporation, Camelot Music, Inc., Edison Brothers Stores, Inc., Stratosphere, Inc., Plaid Clothing Group Inc., Premium Standard Farms, Harrah's Jazz Company, Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc., Weiner's Stores, Inc., Ladish Co., Inc., Universal Medical Buildings, Grossman's Inc., R.H. Macy & Co. and Cherokee, Inc. Mr. Huffard has provided valuation and corporate finance advisory work for AmBase Corporation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company and the Resolution Trust Corporation.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Huffard was a Vice President of Hellmold Associates, Inc. Prior to working at Hellmold Associates, Mr. Huffard was an Associate in the corporate finance department of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc. Mr. Huffard was named as one of the country's leading restructuring financial advisors in the 2004 K&A Restructuring Register, a peer group listing assembled by the country's leading restructuring professionals. Mr. Huffard received a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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