President's Letter
Alan D. Holtz
Dear AIRA Members:
The Association’s Board of Directors recently held its winter meeting, and we spent a good amount of time discussing ways to make membership in AIRA even more rewarding to professionals in our field. Our focus was in the following major areas:
Membership–growing the Association and continuing efforts to diversify our membership ranks; providing services of high interest to members
Certification Programs–expanding both the CIRA and CDBV programs, keeping content up to date and focusing on high-quality teaching and unique aspects of these programs
Communications–continuing to communicate effectively with members, through the AIRA Journal, website, directories and email announcements
Programming–meeting both the educational and networking needs of members through regional and annual events
One of the key points of discussion was the importance of getting more members involved in the various Association committees to help address the above issues and other areas. In the coming months you will hear more about AIRA’s committees–I hope you will choose to become involved in one or more areas suited to your interests.
I also hope you are thinking about attending our Annual Conference in Las Vegas on June 4-7, 2008, and I look forward to the opportunity to see many of you there.
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.