Joseph E. Sarachek
Mr. Sarachek has over 15 years advising distressed and special situation companies and their creditors. Prior to performing advisory work, he served as a portfolio manager and consultant with Balfour Investors, Inc. While at Balfour, Mr. Sarachek undertook a number of turnaround advisory assignments for portfolio investments, as well as assignments for non-portfolio companies. Mr. Sarachek also has several engagements relating to troubled real estate assets. Prior to originally joining Balfour, 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 has represented numerous debtors, trustees, creditors committees, and secured creditors over the ten years he actively practiced law. Mr. Sarachek is a member of the advisory board of an investment fund, Rumpere Capital.

Mr. Sarachek holds a Juris Doctor from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Political Science from Cornell University . He grew up in a household where his Mom was a social worker and his Dad was a banker - he looks to provide the best of their skill sets in every deal he does. Mr. Sarachek resides in Scarsdale , New York with his wife and five children. He enjoys cycling, working out, and photography.

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 Laud with a BA from the University of Rochester.