Network Happenings
New Gulf Coast Network!
The Alabama Network is excited to announce its merger into a new Gulf Coast Network which will include restructuring professionals through Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle. The Gulf Coast Network will be under the leadership of Jodi Cooke (Stichter Riedel Blain & Postler). Other members of the network leadership include Bess Creswell (Burr & Forman), Danielle Mashburn-Myrick (Phelps Dunbar LLP), Claire Poirier (Saltmarsh Cleaveland & Gund), Summer Chandler (Chandler Law Firm), Kristi Johnson (Jones Walker LLP), and Jayna Lamar (Maynard Cooper & Gale). The Gulf Coast Network is excited about the opportunities it has to connect women in restructuring throughout the Gulf Coast area.
Carolinas Network
The Carolinas Network has planned an informal breakfast get together at the Annual Bankruptcy Institute sponsored by the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. The group will meet at the Restaurant of the Doubletree Hotel in New Bern, North Carolina at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, 2016.
Chicago Network
On October 6, 2016, the Chicago Network partnered with TMA NOW to co-host a lovely evening of culture and networking at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thirty-five members and guests enjoyed a docent-led tour of several works by the masters of the Impressionist period including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Edouard Manet. While our docent volunteers his time leading these tours for the museum, he is a very knowledgeable Art History professor and his enthusiasm for these artists and their paintings was infectious. One of the paintings he focused on was the subject of one of his semester long classes.
The networking portion of the evening was held in the Terzo Piano restaurant located on the fourth floor of the Modern Wing. It provided a perfect setting to mix and mingle with other women turnaround professionals and to enjoy a glass of wine and hors d’oeuvres. Mary Alberts (MB Financial), Barbara Yong (Golan Christie Taglia LLP), Lauren Hargrove (U.S. Bankruptcy Court), Anne Vanderkamp (Baker Tilly), Elizabeth Vandesteeg (Sugar Felsenthal Grais and Hammer), and Andrea Gonzalez (Alvarez and Marsal) helped plan the event. Special thanks to Sue Fischer and Chris Glatz for assisting with the publicity, registration and menu selection.