Panelist - Lynn Tilton
CEO & Principal, Patriarch Partners, LLC

Ms. Tilton serves as Chief Executive Officer and sole Principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities (“Patriarch”). Ms. Tilton is well recognized by TV and print media alike for her modern day industrialist efforts to rebuild America. Her labors, since the founding of Patriarch have saved over 200,000 jobs and more than 100 companies from liquidation. In 2009, she was honored with the prestigious Turnaround Atlas Leadership Achievement Award for her work in distressed investing.

Under Ms. Tilton’s leadership, Patriarch has positioned itself as a proactive partner to companies during periods of operational, industrial and economic transformation. Patriarch provides liquidity, time and strategic support, frequently saving US companies and US jobs. Patriarch inspires management teams to rebuild, using creative structural solutions and add-on investments in order to enhance companies’ long-term values.

Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust (“LDMT”), a special situations investment fund and Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a firm which she founded to offer customized research, valuation and execution services to sellers of bank loans and high yield bonds. Ms. Tilton began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1981. She also worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker until 1989.

Ms. Tilton earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.