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MELISSA KIBLER KNOLL NAMED ABI
PRESIDENT
May 19, 2010 Alexandria, Va. — The American
Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Melissa Kibler Knoll of
Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC (Chicago) has been selected by the ABI
Board of Directors to be President. She succeeds
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Shur (Portland, Maine) and will serve a one-year term that began
at ABI’s Annual Spring Meeting held April 29 - May 2, 2010 in
Washington, D.C. An ABI member since 1996, Kibler Knoll has served as
ABI’s Vice President–Membership, as co-chair of ABI's
Inaugural Professional Development Program and as a member of
ABI’s Executive Committee.
Kibler Knoll is a senior managing director at Mesirow Financial
Consulting, LLC. Her practice focuses on financial advisory services to
companies, unsecured creditors, secured lenders and other parties in
restructurings and turnarounds.
Kibler Knoll is also a member of the Turnaround Management
Association, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors,
Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the Chicago Finance
Exchange, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the
Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants. A frequent contributor
to the ABI Journal, she was
recognized in 2004 in Crain’s
Chicago Business '40 Under 40' and received the 2003 CIRA
gold medal award for her work as a certified insolvency and
restructuring advisor.
For a complete list of ABI’s officers and directors, please
visit:
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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 more than
12,600 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
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