President's Letter

Alan D. Holtz

Dear AIRA Members:

It’s the beginning of a new year, and it will be another active one for the Association. The highlight will be our Annual Conference in Las Vegas on June 4 – 7, 2008, but there will be plenty of other opportunities to network, learn and have some fun all throughout the year.

You may or may not have made New Year’s resolutions for 2008, but it’s never too late to add a few more. Consider the following:

Start the CDBV program to bolster my valuation skills and testifying qualifications and to have one less thing that my spouse doesn’t understand about me
Write an article for AIRA Journal and sent it out to all of my contacts to remind them about my expertise (and what I look like)
Get current with my CPE requirements so I can continue to practice in [insert state name]
Finish the CIRA exam, and add this meaningful credential to my resume (finally!)
Visit Las Vegas with the hope that what happens in Vegas (learning at the Annual Conference) doesn’t stay in Vegas

I wish all of our members a happy, healthy and prosperous new year, and look forward to your active participation in AIRA during 2008.

Warm regards,

Alan D. Holtz

Author bio:

Alan Holtz is a Managing Director with AlixPartners based in New York. He has spent close to 20 years as a corporate restructuring and reorganization specialist and has managed all aspects of the financial restructuring process. Alan has provided services to companies, management teams and boards of directors, as well as to financial institutions and creditors’ committees, across a wide variety of industries. A frequent speaker on the subject of bankruptcy and reorganization, Alan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and is a CPA and a CIRA, for which he received the 1992 CIRA silver medal from AIRA.