Joseph E. Sarachek
Joseph E. Sarachek is the Founder and Managing Partner of Triax Capital Advisors and specializes in advising and managing distressed and special situation companies and their creditors. Mr. Sarachek has over 22 years of experience providing small and middle market companies alternative solutions whether through operational changes, capital solutions, or both. Currently, he is the Chapter 7 Trustee of Agriprocessors, Inc., the largest kosher meat and poultry processor in North America. He recently served as Chief Restructuring Officer of Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, one of the largest independent owned art galleries, successfully confirming a plan of reorganization. He is presently involved in several operational turnarounds and the workouts of real estate portfolios. Mr. Sarachek also has expertise in the acquisition of distressed trade claims and is a Founder of Debt Acquisition Group.

Prior to performing advisory work, he served as a portfolio manager and consultant with Balfour Investors. While at Balfour, Mr. Sarachek undertook a number of turnaround advisory assignments for portfolio investments, as well as assignments for non-portfolio companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sarachek was a partner at the New York office of the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery where his primary focus was principal outside counsel to several investment partnerships, which acquired bank debt, trade claims, and distressed assets. In addition to counseling investment firms, he represented numerous debtors, trustees, creditors committees, and secured creditors during the ten years he actively practiced law.

Mr. Sarachek is currently Chairman of the Board of Chazak Value Corp., a public company. He is also on the Board of Kominox, a South Korean based experimental cancer drug company.

Mr. Sarachek is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), the Commercial Finance Association (CFA), and the American Bar Association (ABA). Mr. Sarachek holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from New York Law School and a BS in Economics and Political Science from Cornell University.

 

Marc B. Ross, CPA, CIRA
Mr. Ross specializes in advising and managing troubled companies, providing litigation consulting and performing forensic investigations. He has over 15 years experience as an auditor, bankruptcy and turnaround advisor, crisis manager, and forensic accountant.

Mr. Ross’ financial advisory experience includes: strategic business planning, operational and debt/equity restructuring, solvency analysis, evaluating feasibility of restructuring plans, valuations, and identifying fraud and/or misdirection of assets. In addition, Mr. Ross has advised numerous lenders on the viability of assets within their portfolios, and has assisted lenders in developing procedures necessary to assess the creditworthiness of current and potential clients. Mr. Ross has significant litigation support and forensic accounting experience, having assisted lenders, Fortune 100 companies and their counsel in investigating financial malfeasance as well as providing litigation support to these constituencies. Mr. Ross has experience in a broad range of industries including: retail, commercial lending, telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, hospitality, public utilities and other regulated entities and not for profit.

Prior to joining Triax, Mr. Ross was a senior manager in the business advisory group of Protiviti Inc., an international risk consulting firm with over 900 employees. Previously, Mr. Ross was a manager at Cherpock & Rosenfeld LLP (C&R), a boutique firm specializing in bankruptcy, turnaround, fraud and litigation support.

Mr. Ross is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, (CIRA) and the recipient of the Bronze Medal for the completion of the 2002 CIRA Certification course, receiving the third highest score out of all the candidates completing the test.

 

Bradly D. Schwab
Prior to joining Triax, Mr. Schwab was the Chief Operating Officer of GLS Services, LLC which is now a profitable $10 million diversified security services company. When Mr. Schwab first joined GLS, the firm was losing approximately $1 million per annum on almost $5 million in sales. Prior to joining GLS, Mr. Schwab was a member of AIG’s private equity division where, for over three years, he was directly responsible for identifying, structuring and executing privately negotiated transactions in a diverse group of industries, including, energy, transportation, telecommunications and business services among others. Before joining AIG, Mr. Schwab spent three years in fixed income sales and trading at both Bankers Trust and Bear Stearns. Mr. Schwab holds an MA in international business and finance from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and graduated Cum Laude with a BA from the University of Rochester.

 

Harry Malinowski
Mr. Malinowski has approximately 30 years of financial management and accounting experience. He has extensive experience in industries such as real estate, construction, media/publishing, leasing, service, wholesale/distribution, retail, insurance and manufacturing.

Utilizing his broad experience and high level skills, Mr. Malinowski provides short to medium term financial management by acting as a Chief Restructuring Office, Chief Financial Officer or other Senior Manager for companies facing financial management challenges beyond their current scope of capabilities. Mr. Malinowski has also acted as a Court Appointed Trustee to various organizations.

As a consultant for the last 13 years, Mr. Malinowski has performed numerous assignments. Most recently, Mr. Malinowski was appointed Chief Restructuring Officer of Testwell, Inc. a company in the construction service business operating under the protection of Chapter 11 in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court. Among his other recent assignments, Mr. Malinowski was Financial Advisor to a media company operating 30 radio stations, Chief Financial Officer for a $35 million private label and brand jewelry company where he was successful in coordinating the acquisition of its assets from a bankrupt parent/affiliate, a CFO for a $50 million sports marketing company where he was successful in restructuring $15 million of debt by extending repayment terms, reducing interest payments and principal and led the company to profitability after losses totaling $5 million in the prior two years. He has also been interim Chief Financial Officer for a $70 million Communications Company, acting controller for a publicly held $130 million, 90 site, retail operation throughout its liquidation, director of a special project for a $7 billion Financial Services Company. Previously, Mr. Malinowski was appointed Plan Trustee to a failed service firm where he was successful in liquidating the company's assets and exceeding expected returns to stakeholders by approximately 200%. He has also been a Plan Trustee for a telecom company and Plan Administrator for an over the counter pharmaceutical company.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Mr. Malinowski spent nine years with two major Real Estate firms: Brookfield Financial Properties (formerly Olympia & York) and Paramount Group. He also spent seven years at Deloitte & Touche.

Mr. Malinowski is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Insolvency Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). He earned a Bachelor of Science degree (Cum Laude) from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.