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David Pauker is an experienced restructuring advisor and turnaround manager with 20 years of experience advising creditors or financially distressed companies in a broad array of industries. Currently, David is on the board of directors of Interstate Bakeries, which is executing its turnaround. Recently, he served as the Chief Restructuring Officer of Refco, Inc., a multi-billion dollar commodities and futures broker that filed for bankruptcy two months after its IPO and on the dawn of bankruptcy reform.David has led many of Goldin’s financial and restructuring advisory assignments, including Crystal Brands, Drexel Burnham Lambert Trading Corporation, First Capital Holdings, Intermedia Communications (WorldCom), Northwestern Corp., R.A.B. Holdings, Redding Life Care, Rockefeller Center Properties, Trump Taj Mahal and United Merchants and Manufacturers. He advised such firm clients as Royal Indemnity, Wilmington Trust, Amalgamated Life Insurance, GAF, Balfour Investors, Pegasus Investors, Nissho Iwai Corporation and CNA Insurance. He served as a director of WorldInvest Ltd., Associated Capital Investors, Inc. and Hudson Valley Financial Services. David was named one of eight outstanding young turnaround managers in the United States by Turnarounds and Workouts, a professional publication in the turnaround industry, and has consistently been named among the top ten advisors in the industry by The Deal. He has acted as chief restructuring officer or interim CEO or COO for numerous underperforming or distressed companies. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Vlasic Foods International, a major food company with $900 million in annual sales under the Swanson, Hungry Man, Vlasic and Open Pit brands. He was Chief Executive Officer of Pharmacy Fund, a provider of on-line healthcare receivables financing and information processing outsourcing solutions to the retail pharmacy industry. He acted as Chief Operating Officer or Chief Restructuring Officer during the bankruptcies of Grand Court Lifestyles (fifth largest public U.S. operator of independent and assisted living senior housing ), PSINet Consulting Solutions (information technology consulting company focusing on enterprise software solutions, applications development, systems integration and IT outsourcing), Monarch Capital Corporation (holding company with interests in insurance, real estate and investment management), Tuttle Papock (42 convenience stores) and First Interregional Advisors Corp. (equipment leasing company). David has also overseen many of Goldin’s investigations of troubled companies, including those involving allegations of fraud or improper conduct. He has served as court-appointed examiner or mediator in a number of significant matters. Before joining Goldin Associates, David was a senior aide to Harrison J. Goldin, then Comptroller of The City of New York. He was formerly Executive Vice President of Barclay Knitwear Company, Inc., a New York-based company with interests in soft goods, manufacturing and importing, retailing and real estate. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University School of Law | 