Edward J. Sanz, CTP, CFA

Edward J. Sanz, CTP, CFA is a managing partner with ABTV in Charlotte, N.C., and is a senior finance and restructuring professional with more than 30 years of experience as a CFO, interim manager and financial consultant to business owners, boards of directors and senior management in the U.S.and abroad. He has provided interim crisis-management services, board of director services, financing/refinancing services, company assessments, operational/profitability improvement, and middle-market lending. He also has experience in both out-of-court and state and bankruptcy court proceedings, serving in court-appointed roles including CRO, financial advisor, receiver, trustee and expert witness. Mr. Sanz has worked successfully with both debtors and creditors in a variety of industries, including retail, manufacturing, distribution, restaurant, food services, higher education, printing, media, energy, construction, nonprofit, service, agricultural, health care, telecom, real estate, pharmaceutical, transportation, soft-ware/technology, professional services and aviation. He began his career as a commercial lender with a large regional bank after completing its formal one-year credit training program. As a consultant at a BigFour accounting firm, he performed detailed valuations of public and private companies in connection with mergers/acquisitions, recapitalizations, litigation support and tax cases. He then led the analysis for an RBOC’s CFO of the company’s Latin American cellular investments with combined revenues of$350 million in five countries. He also was the expatriate CFO of an international textile manufacturer in Mexico and was the CFO of a private-equity-owned manufacturer of specialty yarns. In addition, he was a project manager leading cross-functional teams on post-merger integration projects for a major money center bank. Mr. Sanz has worked in the turnaround and restructuring industry since 2005, hav-ing been with two middle-market advisory firms before joining ABTV in 2011. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) Global organization, where he also chairs the Certification Oversight Committee, which oversees the administration of the CTP/CTA designation. He is also a past president and current board member of the TMA’s Carolinas Chapter. Mr. Sanz is a member of ABI and the Turnaround Management Association, Commercial FinanceAssociation, CFA Institute, CFA North Carolina Society and the Association for Corporate Growth. He received his B.S. in commerce from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. with honors from EmoryUniversity.