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Evan R. Fleck is a partner of Milbank LLP and co-practice group leader and co-head of the firm’s global Financial Restructuring Group. Evan has built a successful, peer-recognized practice advising on a wide range of corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. Representing both debtors and creditors in in-court and out-of-court restructurings, lenders and other strategic parties, he has advised key parties in some of the world’s largest and most complex distressed situations.

Evan earned his BA from The University of Pennsylvania and his JD from Georgetown Law. He has been a featured panelist and lecturer at national conferences and law schools on topics involving distressed situations. He is a member of the Complex Case Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and a past member of the Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization Committee of the New York City Bar Association. In March 2023, he was inducted by The American College of Bankruptcy as a Fellow in the 34th Class of the College.

Lisa Donahue is the Global Co-Lead of Turnaround and Restructuring Service at AlixPartners. She guides underperforming companies through complex operational turnarounds in the roles of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Restructuring Officer, and Chief Transition Officer.

Lisa and the firm have been a Dinner Committee sponsor every year since the foundation’s inception and Lisa has served as a Benefit co-chair since 2015. In 2016, the foundation was honored to present Lisa with the Tina Brozman Mentoring Award at our annual Benefit.

Lisa received her BS from Florida State University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Lisa was a dear friend to Tina Brozman in the restructuring community.

Jennifer DeMarco is a partner in the banking and finance practice of Clifford Chance specializing in financial restructuring and bankruptcy. Jennifer is a member of the firm’s Partnership Selection Group and a co-chair of the firm’s Women’s Committee. She is also recognized in Who’s Who of American Women. Jennifer received a JD from Fordham University and a BA from Lafayette College. Jennifer is a founding board member.

Tim Coleman, now retired, was a Partner and Global Chairman of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at PJT Partners, a public spinoff from The Blackstone Group. Prior to the spinoff, Tim worked for twenty-three years at Blackstone serving as a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Restructuring & Reorganization Group. Tim received a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Tim has been a co-chair of the Tina’s Wish Annual Benefit Dinner since 2010 , and was the honoree at the 2015 dinner. In addition to serving on the board of Tina’s Wish, Tim is a member of The Future Project Board of Directors, the Board of Leaders of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Council.

Andrew Brozman was married to Tina for almost 25 years. They lived in northern Westchester County, New York where Andrew still resides. Together they raised three children – Nick, Alix and Wallis – and a large number of Labrador Retrievers. They met as first year lawyers in the same firm and Andrew was introduced to financial restructuring law by Tina after she requested “a little help” on a matter over a weekend. Andrew later led the Financial Restructuring Group in the Americas at Clifford Chance, an international law firm. He graduated from Colgate University and New York University School of Law. Andrew is one of the founders of Tina’s Wish and remains devoted to ensuring that Tina’s wish is brought to fruition. He also is a member of The Director’s Leadership Council of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center and serves on the advisory board of The Disability Rights Advocates, a public interest law firm.

Lisa G. Beckerman was sworn in as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in February 2021. Prior to her appointment, she was a partner in the financial restructuring group at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, and earlier in her career a partner in the bankruptcy group at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Judge Beckerman also served as a co-chair of the Executive Committee of UJA-Federation of New York’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group, a co-chair and member of the Advisory Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s New York City Bankruptcy Conference, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Judge Beckerman is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) and the 2021 NCBJ Education Committee, as well as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for Boston University School of Law. Judge Beckerman received an AB from University of Chicago in 1984, an MBA. from University of Texas in 1986 and a JD from Boston University in 1989.

Judge Beckerman sits on the Tina’s Wish Leadership Council. She appeared in front of Tina Brozman as a lawyer and has worked on cases with Tina’s husband, Andrew Brozman. Judge Beckerman greatly admires Tina and her many accomplishments.