Bert Weil, CTP

Bert Weil, CTP, CPA is a managing director with Getzler Henrich & Associates LLC in New York and has 25 years of experience as a performance-improvement and restructuring professional, crisis manager and senior-level interim executive (CRO/CEO/CFO). He has advised more than 150entities, including public, private and nonprofit entities inside and outside of bankruptcy, as well as syndicated lender groups and chapter 11 unsecured creditor committees. Mr. Weil has helped businesses with business plan development, organizational restructurings, balance-sheet restructurings, debt refinancing and sell-side transactions, liquidations, and operational and profit-improvement programs. He also has worked with syndicated lender groups and unsecured creditors’ committees to maximize recoveries. Mr. Weil’s industry experience includes light and heavy manufacturing, imported- and domestic-product merchandising and distribution, higher education, food process-ing, apparel and textiles, trucking, aerospace, professional services, printing, nonprofit and retail.Prior to joining the restructuring community, he learned first-hand the challenges of managing a struggling business while serving as the top financial officer of a New York-based public company with 1,000 employees. Prior to that, he managed the New York-based corporate foreign exchange and derivatives desk for ABN Bank (now ABN-AMRO) and held derivative product business-development roles at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Citibank. He also held positions at ContinentalGrain Company, AIG and Ernst & Young. Mr. Weil was a 13-year officer and member of the board of the Turnaround Management Association’s New York chapter and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and ABI. He received his B.S. in accounting from Lehigh University and his M.B.A. from the Stern School at New York University.