Marti P. Murray

Marti P. Murray, CVA is a principal of The Brattle Group, Inc. in New York and is an expert in valuation, solvency, fraudulent conveyance, corporate financial distress and restructuring, securities trading, fraud (including Ponzi schemes), and industry custom and practice in the alternative investment management industry. She has more than 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, including leadership roles at both alternative investment management firms and business restructuring financial advisory firms. She has also served on numerous boards of directors of both public and private companies, and has acted as a court-appointed SEC receiver for an investment adviser accused of fraud.Earlier in her career, Ms. Murray was the founder, president and portfolio manager of Murray CapitalManagement Inc., an SEC-registered distressed-debt hedge fund firm that she ran from 1995-2008. The distressed debt business of Murray Capital was acquired by Babson Capital in April 2008. Ms. Murray served as an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business from 2001-13, where she taught courses in bankruptcy, distressed-debt investing and equity analysis/valuation. While at NYU Stern, she received awards for excellence in teaching, including the Teacher of the Year Prize. Ms. Murray has written for numerous publications and was a contributing author to Managing Hedge Fund Risk: From the Practitioner’s Perspective, edited by Virginia Reynolds Parker and published in 2001. She is a full member of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER), and she serves on the board of directors and as Audit Committee vice chair of the New York Chapter of the Turnaround ManagementAssociation (TMA). Ms. Murray received her B.A. in international relations and Chinese from ColgateUniversity in 1981 and her M.B.A. in finance from New York University Stern School of Business in1986.