Nate Van Duzer | Fidelity Investments

Nathan H. Van Duzer is Managing Director, Special Situations at Fidelity Investments. In his role at Fidelity, he leads a team responsible for corporate reorganizations and restructurings in Fidelity’s High Income and Alternatives Division. In his 20-year career at Fidelity, he has worked on hundreds of in-court and out-of-court restructurings across a wide array of industries. Mr. Van Duzer represents Fidelity investors’ interests on the board of directors of Mesquite Energy, Inc, New Cotai LLC and Lucchesse Bootmaker, Inc. as well as an observer on numerous other corporate boards. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Jamie Zimmerman | Litespeed Management

Jamie Zimmerman is CEO of Lightspeed, which she founded in 2000. Prior to founding Litespeed, Ms. Zimmerman was Head of Research for a risk arbitrage/special situations portfolio at Toronto-Dominion Bank from 1997 to 2000.

From 1990 to 1997, she was a member of the distressed debt department of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. She had the dual responsibilities of researching investment opportunities for the Oppenheimer Horizon Fund, while selling investment ideas to other hedge fund investors. During her last two years at Oppenheimer, she managed a proprietary account which invested in post-reorganization equities.

From 1988 to 1990, she was a member of Dillion Reach & Co., Inc.’s risk arbitrage group where she was responsible for the portfolio’s investments in the distressed arena and helped research merger arbitrage opportunities.

Prior to joining Dillon Read, she was an Analyst in L.F. Rothschild & Co., Inc.’s risk arbitrage department.

Ms. Zimmerman began her career as an attorney. She clerked from 1984 to 1985 for the Honorable Howard C. Buschmann III, a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge in the Southern District of New York and was a Second Year Associate at LeBoeuf Lamb Leiby & MacRae in 1986.

Ms. Zimmerman received a B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1981.

Ms. Zimmerman received both a J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School and a Masters in English Literature from the University of Michigan’s Horace Rachkam Graduate School in 1984.

Ms. Zimmerman is a Corporation Member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute where she is a Member of the Ocean and Climate Institute Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Achilles International.

Daniel flores | goldentree asset management

Daniel Flores is a Partner, the Head of Restructurings and Turnarounds in North America and a member of the Distressed Investment Committee at GoldenTree Asset Management. At GoldenTree, he is responsible for restructurings, distressed investments, turnarounds and the firm’s post-reorganization portfolio in North America. Prior to joining GoldenTree, Mr. Flores worked at Avenue Capital Group, where he focused on U.S. distressed opportunities, restructuring transactions and turnarounds, in the Restructuring and Finance Group at Lehman Brothers, where he advised clients in connection with out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 cases and financings in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, and in Merrill Lynch’s Global Power Group in New York, London and Singapore. In addition, Mr. Flores founded MENU Pte Ltd, a leading operator of Western food and beverage concepts in Singapore. Mr. Flores has served on a number of profit and non-profit boards, including Superior Energy, Milacron, Trusted Media Brands, CE Star and Repertorio Español, and on dozens of ad hoc creditor committees. Mr. Flores received an A.B. degree from Duke University and his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Moderator: Deborah Lucas | MIT Sloan

Deborah Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Lucas's current research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on economically meaningful cost measurement of government financial activities.

She serves on an advisory board for the Urban Institute. She is a trustee of the NBER pension plans, an associate editor for several academic journals, and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee and the Financial Economics Roundtable. Previous appointments include assistant and associate director at the Congressional Budget Office; professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School; chief economist at the Congressional Budget Office, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. She has been an independent director on several corporate and non-profit boards, including the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.