Dhananjay Pai is currently a Managing Member of P. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) as well as its President and COO. Prior to his current position, he was PSAM’s Chief Financial Officer. He joined PSAM in in 2003 as Senior Vice President – Product Development. Prior to joining PSAM, he served as Managing Director of Lightyear Capital, a private equity investment firm. Earlier in his career, he was Managing Director of Paine Webber Group and President of Paine Webber Capital Inc. In these positions he was restructuring a variety of partnership and corporate investments as well as investing the company’s proprietary capital. He started his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Pai is a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Advisor and member of the Executive Committee of the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Center for Advanced Study of India as well as on its Executive Committee. Mr. Pai is also the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of Youth INC., a New York based non-profit organization which works with non-profits focused on helping NY’s children and their parents. Mr. Pai received a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Wray is the Founder and Chief Executive of Clear Heights Capital, a private investment firm committed to helping companies realize their growth and development objectives. Wray is deeply involved in building and leading businesses to source, structure, finance and make private investments as well as helping companies, organizations and executives realize their growth and development objectives. With nearly three decades of experience as a CIO, investment lead and lead director, Wray has firsthand knowledge of investment firm leadership, private investing and company value creation. Wray has also been at the forefront of proactive ESG principals putting people first in private investing as well as applying data & technology to innovate private investing. Prior to founding Clear Heights, Wray was Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer - Private Investments at Two Sigma Investments. Wray architected and led the firm’s private equity (Sightway Capital), venture capital (Two Sigma Ventures) and impact (Two Sigma Impact) investment businesses as Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of TSPI, LP and Chair & Venture Partner of TSV. Before Two Sigma, Wray was a Senior Managing Director with Marathon Asset Management, where he was a senior member of the investment team, developed the firm’s private equity investment activities and played a role in many new business opportunities and capital formation initiatives for the firm. Prior to joining Marathon, Wray evaluated and executed management buyout transactions as a Director with Fox Paine & Co. and as a Principal at Dubilier & Co. Wray began his career in the financial analyst program at Chemical Bank (today, J.P. Morgan) as an Associate in the Acquisition Finance Group. Wray has been involved in ~290 transactions, add-on acquisitions, realizations, corporate financings, fundraisings and other principal transactions with aggregate consideration in excess of $32bn, including direct private equity, venture and 3rd-party managed fund investments representing more than $2.8bn in invested capital. Wray has been a part of driving shareholder value creation and corporate growth as member of boards and committees of more than 30 companies and investment funds. Wray is committed to giving back to the community, serving as Co-Chair of the Board of Youth, INC, as a grant monitor and event committee chair for Hour Children, as an Associate of the Harvard College Fund and previously as the founding President of the Saint Stephen of Hungary School Foundation. Wray earned an A.B. from Harvard University and lives in NYC with his wife Melissa and their 3 children, Thompson, Greyson and Gemma.

Kathleen McCabe is a Partner in the Strategic Advisory Group at PJT Partners, based in New York. Prior to joining PJT Partners, Ms. McCabe spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as the Head of Marketing and Business Development for the Investment Banking Division. Prior to that, Ms. McCabe was the firm’s Global Head of Investor Relations. Before that, Ms. McCabe was a senior banker in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division with responsibility for some of the firm’s largest corporate and private equity client relationships and over the course of her career has worked on a broad range of transactions including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, financings and recapitalizations across a broad range of sectors including industrials, transportation, business services, real estate and financial services. Ms. McCabe began her career as an Analyst in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Bankers Trust. Ms. McCabe is Co-President of the Board of Youth INC, a former Trustee of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and a former Trustee of the George F. Baker Scholars Program at Georgetown University. She has a BA in Government from Georgetown University.

Mr. Wildstein is a Partner of Kohlberg & Company, LLC. Mr. Wildstein joined Kohlberg in 1994, and became a Partner in 1999. As a member of the investment team, Mr. Wildstein evaluates acquisition candidates, structures investments, and serves on the investment committee of Kohlberg. Mr. Wildstein has completed numerous platform and add-on acquisitions across a range of industries, and also develops financing strategies for portfolio companies, including public and private debt and equity financings. He has been involved in managing and monitoring many of the firms’ prior and current portfolio investments, and has served on the board of directors of numerous public and private companies. During his tenure at Kohlberg, Mr. Wildstein also served as President of Kisco Capital Corporation, a Kohlberg affiliated small business investment vehicle. Prior to joining Kohlberg, Mr. Wildstein was a Financial Analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. Mr. Wildstein received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

William Q. Derrough is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Recapitalization and Restructuring Group of Moelis & Company. Under his leadership, Moelis has established one of the world’s leading R&R teams, which has advised on more than 400 assignments globally representing over $1 trillion in value. The team was ranked #1 Restructuring Advisor both Globally and in the U.S. for 2019 completed engagements and was awarded the prestigious Restructuring Bank of the Year award for 2019 by IFR Magazine. From 1998 until 2008, Mr. Derrough was Co-Head of Jefferies & Company’s Recapitalization and Restructuring Group where he focused on recapitalizations, restructurings, financing and corporate advisory and led over 50 transactions representing more than $60 billion in transaction value. Mr. Derrough also served as co-head of Jefferies’ New York office. Prior to joining Jefferies, he was a principal with the San Francisco-based private investment firm of Doyle & Boissiere, where he was responsible for identifying and executing controlling equity investments in underperforming companies and assisting them in their operational turnarounds. Mr. Derrough began his career at Salomon Brothers in corporate finance in 1988, and from 1991 – 1997 worked in restructurings at Chanin & Company, most recently as Senior Vice President. Mr. Derrough is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, the International Insolvency Institute, a Trustee of Bennington College. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Lambda Legal and the National Pastoral Life Center. He is a frequent speaker, having served on the faculty for seminars and conferences of the Federal Judicial Center, American Bankruptcy Institute, Turnaround Management Association, and various bar and industry associations. Mr. Derrough holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of Youth INC, Boy Scouts of Greater New York, Bennington College and the Academy of St. Joseph, New York. Mr. Derrough also served as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 2017-2021.

Dan is co-head of the Private Equity industry group at Ropes & Gray LLP. His broad M&A and corporate practice includes acquisitions and dispositions for private equity and strategic buyers and sellers, private fund and general partner organization, public offering and other financing transactions, and general corporate representation. Dan has led more than 100 M&A transactions ranging in size from less than $100 million to more than $2 billion. Dan’s regular clients include American Industrial Partners, Aquiline, Bain Capital, KarpReilly, Kohlberg & Co., and H.I.G. Capital. He is also Secretary, chair of the Audit Committee and a Trustee of the New England Aquarium.

Alan advises clients on maximizing value, recovery, and financial returns in complex restructuring situations. For the past 32 years, he has worked with management teams and boards of directors of companies facing financial challenges as well as with secured lenders and unsecured creditors of companies in similar situations, both in Chapter 11 and out of court. Alan was with a Big Four firm before joining AlixPartners, both as a CPA and as a restructuring consultant. He has a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Clients that Alan has represented in recent years include FirstEnergy, FTD, Appvion, LSC Communications and creditors of Payless Shoes, Chicago Tribune and Energy Futures Holdings. Alan has served on the boards of directors of various not-for-profit organizations, including Youth INC, Newark Public Radio (Finance Chair), and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (President), amongst others.