Rob R. Vanderbeek

Rob Vanderbeek, CIRA, CDBV is a partner with Novo Advisors in Morristown, N.J., and has more than 30 years of restructuring, performance improvement and due diligence as well as litigation, valuation and forensic experience in a broad range of industries, including health care, energy, financial services, transportation and trucking, manufacturing, mortgage products, real estate, retail, hospitality, equipment leasing and distribution. He has led many distressed companies through the restructuring and sales processes, both in and out of court, for various constituents. Mr. Vanderbeek has served as interim COO and other interim mandates related to complex cases, and has played key roles in operational cost-rationalization efforts, as well as a fiduciary in litigation support and forensic investigations. He has testified in bankruptcy court, including on DIP and cash-collateral matters. Most recently, Mr. Vanderbeek advised secured lenders with a $200 million working capital facility to Verity Healthcare, six acute care medical centers in California. He also advised a chapter 11 trustee regarding operational stabilization, potential reopening, and the bankruptcy sale and disposition of seven critical access hospitals. Mr. Vanderbeek has advised hospitals regarding strategic alternatives and contingency-planning to facilitate a sale, including advising North Oakland Medical Center and Brookdale Medical Center Boards regarding strategic alternatives. Prior to joining Novo, he spent five and a half years at Grant Thornton, where he served as a managing director. Before that, he worked at Goldin Associates (now Teneo), a financial advisory boutique, where he was as a member of its Management Committee and ranked in the Top 25 Crisis Management Professionals in Deal League Tables for six years. Before joining Goldin, Mr. Vanderbeek served as a managing director in the Restructuring & Turnaround practice at Huron Consulting Group. Prior to that, he worked in the restructuring practices of AlixPartners and FTI, and earlier in his career, he worked as a bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Vanderbeek received his B.S. in finance from Lehigh University, his M.B.A. from NYU Stern School and his J.D. from Pace School of Law.