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Ms. Carbone has more than twenty-four years experience working with distressed companies. She is actively involved with Phoenix Financial Services, which provides investment banking services and turnaround consulting to middle-market companies. She is also a Principal in a newly formed Midwestern private equity fund where she is responsible for managing the due diligence and investment decision process and will serve on the Boards of its portfolio companies. Anne has completed several investment banking and consulting assignments for established turnaround consulting firms on an independent contracting basis. Turnaround consulting assignments have included Andros Inc., Delta Carbona, Distribution Dynamics Inc., Hathaway Shirt Company, and Special Metals Corp. Previously, as the Assistant to the President of American Capital Strategies, a $2.0+ billion publicly traded mezzanine and buy-out fund, her responsibilities included managing the identification, monitoring, viability assessment and disposition of all sub-standard portfolio investments, taking an active role in the quarterly market valuation of the portfolio, and the design and implementation of an infrastructure for the operating company itself. Anne spent twenty years in the Business Credit units of financial services firms that have since become part of Citicorp, GE Capital, Fleet Capital and Bank of America (having been a Senior Vice President at NationsBank). Anne has been engaged in a variety of financial advisory roles including corporate restructurings, due diligence, and negotiating large multi-bank financial packages. She was responsible for structuring and financing leveraged buyouts and recaps for such companies as Bridgeport Machines, Consolidated Freightways, Davis Wire, Dixon Ticonderoga, Furr's Supermarkets, International Permalite, Kerr Group, Manna Pro, Mobile Mini, MTI, Monaco Coach, Otis Spunkmeyer, Paper Pak Industries, Sierracin, Sonic Industries, and Treasure Chest Advertising. Anne serves as a Board member of the Connecticut Turnaround Management Association and a Board member and Treasurer of the Association for Corporate Growth. Anne has a BA in Government from St. Lawrence University and an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Anne is fluent in Italian and has studied German and French. She is very active in her community, serving as a Board member of the Norwalk Historical Society, the Plaque Committee of the NHS, the Norwalk Association of Silvermine Homeowners, the Stamford Historical Society and as a Commissioner on the Norwalk Zoning Board of Appeals. | 