Mark J. Welch CTP, is a senior financial executive and management consultant who has led numerous turnaround, crisis management, recovery and bankruptcies assignments in various business sectors. He has held interim-management positions as a CFO, CRO, Controller and Cash Manager with underperforming and bankrupt companies, and has optimized recoveries in liquidations, receivership, and bankruptcy sales. He has specific expertise in cost reduction, asset recovery, restructuring plans, internal control development, liquidation and bankruptcy reporting.

Mr. Welch’s recent experience includes the foundry, tool & Die, stamping, machine manufacturing, C-Store and gas station, food service, factoring, plastics, transportation, pharmaceutical distribution, telecommunications, cable, construction and retail industries.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Welch was the Director of Internal Audit at Southern Air Transport, Inc., a mid-sized cargo air-transport airline. Prior to that, Mr. Welch spent eight years as a Liquidation Auditor with the Office of Inspector General for both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. In that capacity, he specialized in large bank assistance agreement transactions, liquidations, inventory audits, due diligence reviews, information systems audits and congressional inquiries.

Mr. Welch has testified in state and federal courts as an expert witness, prepared fraud cases for the government and testified in bankruptcy court.

Mr. Welch, a CPA, is an accounting graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.