JOSHUA RIZACK

Joshua Rizack is a seasoned financial and turnaround consultant with more than 25 years of experience. He has assisted in revitalizing financially distressed companies in a variety of industries including construction, software, .com’s, leasing, heath care, telecommunications, electronics, apparel, real estate, publishing, retailing, securities, and general manufacturing.

 

Mr. Rizack has analyzed, constructed, and negotiated Chapter 11 plans of reorganization, resolved litigation, and coordinated claims objection/resolution process. In addition, he has acted as Chief Restructuring Officer, President/CEO, Plan Administrator, Receiver and served on Equity Committees of distressed companies. He has served in the capacity of CEO/President/CRO for Oberon Media, Spy Magazine, Windsor Door, Grandparents.com, Murphy & Durieu, VICWEST Corporation, Sonix Medical Resources, and Alliance Precision Plastics, among others.

 

Mr. Rizack's career path includes experience in negotiating with creditors and disposal of non-essential assets to raise cash, advise on fraudulent conveyance matters, preference actions, commencement of litigation, and preparation of disclosure statements. He has arranged DIP and exit financing, as well as the sale of corporate divisions. 

As a strategic thinker, he is skilled in assessing the viability of a company, managing the day-to-day operations, handling cash flow, and developing detailed turnaround plans.  

 

Prior to private consulting, Mr. Rizack worked as a consultant with Zolfo Cooper and Buccino & Associates, national crisis management firms specializing in assisting troubled companies. He provided turnaround consulting to numerous companies in industries ranging from heavy manufacturing to retail chains.

 

Mr. Rizack graduated from New York University, with a degree in Economics.

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EMILY DE VILLA

Emily de Villa is a Senior Associate specializing in providing turnaround and restructuring support services to distressed and underperforming companies. She also provides crisis management, financial, operational, and other restructuring advisory services to management of underperforming companies, both in and out of court.

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Her experience includes planning, budgeting, forecasting and benchmarking, liquidity management, cash flow modeling, litigation support, as well as financial and operational, and ratio analysis. She has worked across a variety of industries including hedge funds, investment banks, and manufacturing.

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Prior to joining The Rising Group Consulting, Ms. de Villa worked in legal compliance at Venue Capital Group where she specialized in compliance duties for the European, Event Driven & CLO strategies of an $8.0 billion Hedge Fund.  Prior to Venue Capital, she worked as a hedge fund administrator at Bessemer Trust Company, where she reviewed all updates or amendments submitted by funded managers and ensured implementation of up-to-date regulations to products, and coordinated with the finance department on a monthly basis to regulate cash flows to and from various funds.  Ms. de Villa began her career with Goldman Sachs as an analyst, were she was responsible for cash management of accounts and booked entries of equity, options and bond trades.

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Ms. de Villa graduated from New York University, Stern School of Business, with a degree in Finance and International Business.

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