Mr. John Thomas Beckett

J. Thomas Beckett is a shareholder with Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City and heads the firm?s bankruptcy group. For more than 30 years, he has represented a diverse roster of clients in chapter 11 cases, notably, in the Yellowstone Mountain Club bankruptcy, as lead counsel to the creditors? committee, for which he obtained the equitable subordination of a $370 million secured loan to enable unsecured creditors to be paid first. Formerly an associate at Milbank in New York City, Mr. Beckett?s work experience also includes a year on the staff of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. He recently served as chairman of the board of directors of Clark Planetarium and currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court?s Ethics and Discipline Committee. He has maintained a whitewater river guide?s license and wilderness first responder certification for 40 years. Mr. Beckett received his B.A. from Brown University in 1979 and his M.B.A. in finance from New York University Stern School of Business Administration in 1986. He also was trained as a mediator at the Harvard Law School?s Program on Negotiation.