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• Chief Restructuring Officer, Financial Advisor, Litigation Expert

ALEX D. MOGLIA serves as chief restructuring officer, financial advisor, litigation expert witness, bankruptcy trustee, liquidating trustee, federal and state receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, fraud recovery expert, and special situations M&A advisor. Prior to founding Moglia Advisors in 1988, Alex held executive positions in banking, transportation, real estate, and manufacturing. Initially, he practiced international law with Winston & Strawn. Alex served as Chair of the International Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors, of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers. He served on the Board of Directors of AeroCare, an international air carrier of patients and transplant organs. He was on the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute and founded and chaired its Finance & Banking Committee. He has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School and attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has a Bachelor of Science of Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Alex was born in Argentina, lived in Brazil, and worked on projects and cases in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and has working knowledge of Italian and French.

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• Executive Vice President of Latitude

CANDICE REED currently serves as Executive Vice President of Latitude and is the Partner in Charge of its Tennessee operations. Latitude is a Chambers-ranked, full-service flexible legal talent company, headquartered in Nashville, that specializes in providing highly skilled former in-house counsel and Big Law attorneys for contract engagements and permanent positions with corporate legal departments and law firms nationwide. Candice also is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Tennessee College of Law, where she teaches an upper-level course on Thriving as a Lawyer and sits on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Professional Leadership. She co-hosts the podcast, Leveraging Latitude: Cultivating a Full Life in the Law. Candice previously served as Chief Ethics Officer and in-house legal counsel at Ceridian Corporation and Comdata, where she oversaw operational ethics compliance worldwide. She began her legal career at Miller & Martin PLLC, where she practiced business litigation and commercial bankruptcy law. Candice has extensive experience as a business executive, legal recruiter, trainer and coach for lawyers and their organizations and is a frequent speaker and CLE presenter on topics such as attorney wellbeing, professional development and leadership, workplace engagement, and career satisfaction and transition. She is a double graduate from The University of Tennessee, earning her J.D. from UT College of Law in 2000, and was among the nation's first lawyers to obtain a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (M.A.P.P.) degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Candice is a Nashville Bar Association Fellow and former NBA YLD Board Member, a TBA member and TBA YLD Fellow, and former President of Nashville's Lawyers' Association for Women (LAW). She also is a former Board Member and now serves on the Advisory Board for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Nashville and co-chaired Dancing for Safe Haven, the largest annual fundraiser to benefit Safe Haven Family Shelter, in 2022 and 2023.

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• Co - Founder and Principal of Gibbins Advisors
• Non - Executive Director for the Skin Hospital

CLARE MOYLAN is a co-founder and Principal of Gibbins Advisors, a consulting and restructuring advisory firm that specializes in the healthcare sector. Clare brings 17 years of experience in healthcare spanning turnaround and restructuring, operations management, strategic planning, business analysis and performance improvement consulting. She is highly skilled at taking complex problems, bringing clarity to the key issues, and supporting multiple layers of stakeholders to work toward an agreed solution. Clare's experience covers the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors across the healthcare continuum: hospitals, primary care, nursing homes, hospice, specialty practice clinics, senior living and home health care. Clare is a CFA Charterholder and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration/ Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honors) from Macquarie University and a Master Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Cornell University. Clare serves as a volunteer non-Executive Director for The Skin Hospital, a non-profit dermatology services provider with research and specialist training programs.

EDWARD D. LANQUIST, JR. is an AV rated lawyer who focuses his practice on patent and trademark litigation, EDWARD D. LANQUIST, JR is an intellectual property shareholder at Baker Donelson. Ed is an AV rated lawyer who focuses his practice on patent and trademark litigation, intellectual property counseling, and trademark prosecution. In addition to litigating more than one hundred and fifty cases, Mr. Lanquist has filed over one thousand trademark registration applications, over 150 patent applications, and performed in excess of 2,300 trademark clearance searches. He has litigated and performed appellate work in cases involving patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, right of publicity, copyright infringement, design patent infringement, and trade secret misappropriation cases. Mr. Lanquist counsels clients on the economic benefits and implications of intellectual property protection and litigation. Ed received his J.D., with Honors, University of Tennessee, 1988 and his B.S., Civil Engineering, with Honors, University of Tennessee, 1985. Ed is President Elect and former general Counsel of the Tennessee Bar Association. Ed is the current Chair of Hands on Nashville. Ed is on the faculty of Tennessee Law Institute and the Nashville School of Law. Ed is a Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Bar Association. He is a former Chairman of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Patent, Copyright and Trademark Committee. Ed previously serve on the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Bar Association, Intellectual Property Committee. He is a past President, Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association, a past Treasurer, Nashville Bar Association, a past Chair, Nashville Bar, Intellectual Property Committee, a past Chair, Nashville Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Committee, a past Chair, Nashville Bar Association, ad hoc committee for online continuing legal education. Ed is the past Chair of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, past Chair of the Mid-South Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, past Chair and Board Member of the Belcourt Theatre - Nashville's art house theatre, a Past Board Member for the Nashville Capital Network, a Board Member of the Arts and Business Council, a Board Member of the Nashville Technology Council, a Board Member of Hand on Nashville, a Board Member of New Dialect, and a Board Member of the Arts and Business Council. property counseling, and trademark prosecution. In addition to litigating more than one hundred and fifty cases, Mr. Lanquist has filed over one thousand trademark registration applications, over 150 patent applications, and performed in excess of 2,300 trademark clearance searches. He has litigated and performed appellate work in cases involving patent infringement, trade mark infringement, trade dress infringement, right of publicity, copyright infringement, design patent infringement, and trade secret misappropriation cases. Mr. Lanquist counsels clients on the economic benefits and implications of intellectual property protection and litigation. Ed received his J.D., with Honors, University of Tennessee, 1988 and his B.S., Civil Engineering, with Honors, University of Tennessee, 1985. Ed is General Counsel for the Tennessee Bar Association. Ed is a Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Bar Association. He is a former Chairman of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Patent, Copyright and Trademark Committee. Ed serves on the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Bar Association, Intellectual Property Committee. He is a past President, Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association, a past Treasurer, Nashville Bar Association, a past Chair, Nashville Bar, Intellectual Property Committee, a past Chair, Nashville Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Committee, a past Chair, Nashville Bar Association, ad hoc committee for online continuing legal education. Ed is the past Chair of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, past Chair of the Mid-South Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, past Chair and Board Member of the Belcourt Theatre - Nashville's art house theatre, a Past Board Member for the Nashville Capital Network, a Board Member of the Arts and Business Council, a Board Member of the Nashville Technology Council, a Board Member of Hand on Nashville, a Board Member of New Dialect, and a Board Member of the Arts and Business Council.

HON. BARBARA HOLMES was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee on August 1, 2015. Prior to her appointment, Judge Holmes practiced law for almost 30 years in Nashville, representing clients in commercial and bankruptcy litigation in federal and state courts and providing turn-around and restructuring advice (sometimes through a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing) for troubled business in all kinds of industries. Among the kinds of business for which she assisted in the restructuring or structured sale were multiple regional coal mining operations, regional hospital systems, an after-market printer ink and ribbon manufacturer, hospitality franchises (restaurant and hotel), specialty retail businesses, and freight transportation and related services companies, each with its own unique considerations, including state and federal regulatory oversight, vendor and customer contract negotiations and disputes, employment discrimination claims, anti-trust concerns, and intellectual property issues. Throughout her career, Judge Holmes represented clients in custody and other juvenile law matters on a pro bono basis, employment cases, emancipation proceedings, receiverships, family law matters, and administrative proceedings. She also worked on significant cases involving environmental law and franchise law issues. Judge Holmes was previously a Rule 31 mediator and served as a mediator and arbitrator in a variety of business, bankruptcy, and other disputes. She also previously served as a Hearing Committee member for the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, and on a number of hearing panels (including as chair) for disciplinary complaints. Judge Holmes is a former director and past president of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and a former director and past president of the Nashville Bar Association. She is a Master with the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court. Judge Holmes is a fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation, for which she previously served as Treasurer and as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She is also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and of the Nashville Bar Foundation. Judge Holmes previously served on the Tennessee Bar Association Board of Governors and is a past chair of the Executive Council for the TBA Bankruptcy Law Section and a past chair of the TBA Public Education Committee. Judge Holmes is a frequent producer and lecturer on a broad range of continuing legal education topics, previously chaired the CLE Committee of the Nashville Bar Association and chaired a special task force on continuing legal education for the NBA. She is also a recipient of the Nashville Bar Association's CLE Award for exceptional service to the NBA's CLE program. Judge Holmes was previously a Juvenile Court referee, where she heard cases involving truancy, dependency and neglect, and private custody and visitation disputes. She also chaired a statewide commission on juvenile justice issues for the Tennessee Bar Association.

THE HON. CHARLES M. WALKER was appointed on July 27, 2016, as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before taking the bench, Judge Walker served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of the U. S. Trustee for 14 years. Prior to his time with the U.S. Trustee, Judge Walker was in private practice with the law firms Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, LLP and Bone McAllester Norton PLLC concentrating in the areas of creditors rights and commercial litigation. Judge Walker served eight years on active duty with the U.S. Air Force and continues to serve as a brigadier general in the Kentucky Air National Guard. He holds a Bachelor of Aviation Management from Auburn University, a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Troy University and he received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Judge Walker is active in the Nashville community, an alumnus of Nashville's Young Leaders Council and a former Director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and Family & Children's Service. He was the first recipient of the Honorable Cornelius Blackshear Fellowship awarded by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in 2004. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Major General Robert I. Gruber Excellence in Teaching Award, which is awarded by the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General School, recognizing the most exceptional reserve military law instructor.

HON. M. RUTHIE HAGAN was sworn in as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Tennessee on October 16, 2020. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Hagan was a partner in the Memphis office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, where she served in the Bankruptcy and Commercial Restructuring Group. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Judge Hagan practiced bankruptcy law as an associate attorney with Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC in Memphis. Judge Hagan graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she served as Managing Editor of the Arkansas Law Review. While in law school, Judge Hagan was the recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence. Judge Hagan has served as Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the Memphis Bar Association, Director of the Memphis Bar Association, Executive Council Member of the Tennessee Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, Director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and was named a Mid-South Rising Star in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights.

THE HON. RANDAL S. MASHBURN has been a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee since 2012 and currently serves as Chief Judge. He also is in his second term as a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit and will assume the role of Chief Judge of the BAP later this year. Before going on the bench, Judge Mashburn's practice focused heavily on business disputes, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor issues, workouts, and insolvency law. He spent nearly three decades representing a wide range of parties in bankruptcy and commercial litigation, as well as serving as a court-appointed bankruptcy examiner and Chapter 11 trustee. He frequently served as mediator, particularly in disputes involving complex business and financial matters. Most of his legal career was spent at Baker Donelson, where he served stints as practice group chair, board member and in a variety of other management and leadership roles. Judge Mashburn has served on the Board of Directors of the Nashville Bar Association and is a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Foundation. He was a founding member and past President of the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, is a past president of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and served for several years as a board member of the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center. During his tenure on the bench, Judge Mashburn has continued to conduct mediations and judicial settlement conferences in cases pending before other bankruptcy judges (in the Middle District of Tennessee and Delaware) as well as for judges of the United States District Court. Before beginning his legal practice, he served as a judicial law clerk for judges on the United States District Court and the Tennessee Court of Appeals. He has contributed to dozens of publications and has spoken frequently on alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy, and debtor-creditor issues for bar associations, industry groups and continuing legal education programs.

THE HON. SHELLEY D. RUCKER, Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has been on the bench since 2010. Judge Rucker practiced bankruptcy law with the firm of Miller & Martin PLLC for twenty- seven years prior to taking the bench. She previously served as chairperson of the firm's Commercial Department and practice group leader of the Bankruptcy- Creditor Rights Group. She was a board member and President of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. She has participated on the Chapter 7 Update Panel for MCLI for the past seven years. She is a frequent lecturer about bankruptcy and was the 2019 winner of the Golden Gnome Award from the Brock-Cooper Chapter of the American Inns of Court for her presentation on Bankruptcy Basics. She is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She served as the editor-in-chief of the Conference News (2018), the newsletter for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and was a member of its editorial board from 2010 to 2019. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Economics from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her law degree from the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the National Moot Court Team.

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• Member of the Tennessee

THE HON. SUZANNE BAUKNIGHT is a bankruptcy judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Bauknight has served in the Eastern District of Tennessee (at Knoxville) since November 2014. She also has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals beginning January 1, 2022. Before her appointment Judge Bauknight was an Assistant United States Attorney and Civil Division Chief in the Eastern District of Tennessee, representing federal agencies in a variety of matters, including bankruptcy and debt collection. While Chair of the Department of Justice's Civil Chiefs Working Group, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Judge Bauknight earned her B.A. in international studies magna cum laude with honors from the South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina School of Law, attending as a Carolina Legal Scholar and graduating second in her law school class. She started her legal career as law clerk to S.C. Court of Appeals Judge C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., before moving to Knoxville to join the firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, where she practiced in commercial and employment litigation. Judge Bauknight is a member of the Tennessee, South Carolina, and Knoxville Bar Associations and has served as a member of the KBA Board of Governors and as co-chair of the Government and Public Service Sector Lawyers' Section. She is an Emeritus Master of the Bench and past president of the Hamilton Burnett Chapter of the American Inns of Court. Judge Bauknight was an Associate Editor for the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law.

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• Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Encompass Health Corporation

J. PATRICK DARBY is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC), which owns and operates 158 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in 37 states and Puerto Rico. Formerly with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Birmingham, Alabama, he is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy.

JASON L. HENDREN is a Board-Certified Specialist in Business Bankruptcy. Mr. Hendren was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1999. He attended Lee University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in History and received the departmental award. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee School of Law in 1999. While in law school, Mr. Hendren served on the Tennessee Law Review as an Editor of Student Materials from 1997 through 1999 and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Mr. Hendren is a partner at Hendren, Redwine & Malone, PLLC, focusing on the areas of Bankruptcy and Civil Litigation. Mr. Hendren is regularly selected by Business North Carolina as Legal Elite in Bankruptcy and has also appeared frequently in Super Lawyers Magazine. Mr. Hendren served as Research Assistant to Justices Mark D. Martin and George L. Wainwright, Jr. of the Supreme Court of North Carolina prior to entering private practice. Mr. Hendren is also the President of the Eastern Bankruptcy Institute, Inc. Mr. Hendren speaks frequently on the topic of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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• Partner at Thompson Burton PLLC

PHILLIP G. YOUNG, JR. is a Partner at Thompson Burton PLLC. Phillip's practice specializes in bankruptcy, receivership, creditors' rights, commercial loan workouts, as well as complex commercial litigation. Phillip has broad experience representing parties in all manners of insolvency cases. As part of his creditors' rights practice, Phillip has represented financial institutions, corporations and governmental entities in complex workouts, bankruptcies, receiverships, state and federal court litigation, and judgment enforcement. Phillip has also represented large corporate debtors in chapter 11 bankruptcies, chapter 7 bankruptcies, receiverships, and outside of court debt restructuring. In addition to creditor and debtor work, Phillip is frequently retained to represent court-appointed bankruptcy trustees and receivers in evaluating, and pursuing, litigation assets, and has been appointed by various state courts and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to serve as receiver of assets. The breadth of Phillip's experience (from creditor to debtor to trustee) enables him to examine complex legal problems from all angles and craft legal strategies and solutions that are the most effective and efficient for his clients. Prior to joining Thompson Burton, Phillip was an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC (2000 - 2008) and a founding member of Garfinkle, McLemore & Young, PLLC. Phillip is very active in the community in Columbia, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Brandy and their two sons, Phillip III and Derek. Phillip has previously served as Chairman of the board of directors of Columbia Academy, a K-12 private school with campuses in Columbia and Spring Hill. He has combined his passion for Columbia Academy with his passion for youth football by coaching and serving on the board of directors for the Columbia Academy Youth Football League (in which both of his sons have played). Phillip also previously served on the board of Nashville Christian School, Main Street Columbia, and the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. In his free time, Phillip enjoys attending his sons' fine arts performances, restoring his historic home, and attending college and NFL football games. Phillip is a member of the West 7th Street Church of Christ in Columbia, where he frequently leads Bible studies for college students and young families.

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• Member of the Law Firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

WILLIAM L. NORTON III is a Member of the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, 1600 Division St., Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203 (615-252-2397). He graduated from Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1975; J.D., 1982). He practices in the commercial finance area and focuses primarily in creditor's rights and insolvency law. Mr. Norton is Certified as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist and is a Fellow with the American College of Bankruptcy. He teaches bankruptcy law and secured transactions as an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law and is the Editor in Chief for Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3d (Thomson-Reuters) and Co-Author of the Creditor's Rights Handbook (Thomson-Reuters 2021). He serves as Institute Manager for Norton Institutes on Bankruptcy Law, which has conducted over 100 seminars on bankruptcy law. Mr. Norton is Past President of the American Board of Certification and is a Director Emeritus. He is a Past President of the Tennessee Turnaround Management Association; a Past Board Chair of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute; a Past First Vice President of the Nashville Bar Association and a past Board Chair and current Board Member of the Conflict Resolution Center. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Turnaround Professional Award from the Tennessee TMA Chapter. He is an approved Rule 31 mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court.