Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Lisa J. Donahue of AlixPartners LLP (New York) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2000, Donahue is a past co-chair of ABI’s New York City Bankruptcy Conference and is a frequent speaker at ABI events. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Donahue serves as Managing Director and Global Leader of North American Turnaround & Restructuring Services at AlixPartners, LLC, with more than 23 years of both restructuring and operational turnaround and transformation experience. She has been serving as the chief restructuring officer of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority since September 8, 2014. Donahue has extensive experience in business plan development, operational alignment, business transformation, cash management and cost-reduction, negotiation, situational analysis, and debt restructuring for domestic and international organizations. She is a member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. Donahue was named one of New York’s “40 Under 40” by Crain’s New York Business in 2002 and Woman of the Year by the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation in 2007. She received a degree in finance with a minor in accounting from Florida State University in 1988.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.
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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 12,000 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 www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.