Ms. Bettina M. Whyte

Bettina M. Whyte is a managing director and senior advisor with Alvarez & Marsal in New York and Jackson, Wyo., and is a nationally recognized leader in the financial and operational restructuring indus- try. She is also a member of the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. She has served as an interim CEO, COO and CRO of numerous Fortune 1,000 companies, and she has also been appointed by bankruptcy courts as a chapter 11 and chapter 7 trustee and as an examiner, and by state and federal courts as a receiver. Additionally, Ms. Whyte has been appointed by U.S. federal district courts as a court-appointed Rule 706 expert, mediator and arbitrator. She has also served as both a liquidating and litigation trustee. Ms. Whyte has been active in a broad range of industries, including utilities, airlines, oil and gas, commodity trading, food services, transportation, distribution, manufacturing, professional services and financial services. She serves on the boards of directors of AGL Resources (NYSE) and is a member of its Finance and Risk Management Committee and chair of its Compensation Committee; Rock-Tenn Company, for which she serves on its Compensation Committee and chairs its Audit Com- mittee; the board of Amerisure Insurance, a mutual insurance company for which she is the chair of its Audit Committee and a member of its Investment and Acquisition Committee; and the business advisory board of Solera Capital, a private-equity firm. Ms. Whyte has been an adjunct professor of law at Ford- ham University and a guest lecturer at The Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Columbia Business School, The Stern School of Business at New York University and The Krannert School of Business at Purdue University, and has been featured in several publications including BusinessWeek, Working Woman, CEO magazine, The Daily Deal and Boards and Directors magazine. She has also appeared on NBC's "Nightly News," CNN, National Public Radio and Sky Radio. Ms. Whyte is a past president of ABI and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She earned her B.S. in industrial economics from Purdue University and her M.B.A. in finance, account- ing and marketing from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Bettina M. Whyte