Harvey L. Tepner
Harvey L. Tepner, CPA/CA is an independent corporate director, strategic and restructuring advisor, and private investor in New York. His expertise encompasses business strategy and planning, corporate governance, corporate and leverage finance, reorganizations and restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions, including businesses in chapter 11, with experience across numerous industries. In his various capacities, Mr. Tepner works constructively with executive management teams to establish and implement key strategic and tactical initiatives for improving operating performance, increase enterprise value, and/or restructure balance sheets. Previously he was a senior executive of WL Ross & Co. LLC, an alternative-asset-management and private-equity firm, and a general partner of the WL Ross private-equity funds. At WL Ross, Mr. Tepner was responsible for sourcing, structuring and managing investments in select portfolio companies, as well as equity and distressed-debt securities. <br><br>Mr. Tepner serves and has served on the boards of public and private companies including Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, BlockFi Lending, AmSurg, Alpha Metallurgical Resources (formerly Contura), Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings , Core-Mark Holding Company, Exide Holdings, Nine West Holdings, Serta Simmons Bedding, and various WL Ross portfolio companies in the U.S., India and Brazil. Prior to WL Ross, Mr. Tepner spent more than 20 years as an investment banker at Rothschild, Dillon, Read & Co. (acquired by UBS), Loeb Partners and Compass Advisors, where he specialized in corporate restructurings and troubled company M&A, restructuring over $30 billion of liabilities in more than 100 transactions. He began his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Toronto. Mr. Tepner has spoken and written extensively about corporate governance, business strategy and planning, corporate restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions.<br><br>Mr. Tepner is a member of the International Insolvency Institute, the ABI member is a former ABI Board member. Mr. Tepner received his B.A. from Carleton University and his M.B.A. from Cornell University.