Robert
McMahon • Managing Director,
Restructuring, GE Corporate Lending
McMahon
is the head of Restructuring Finance within GE Corporate Lending. He is responsible for some of the largest
restructuring financings in the U.S., including Delta Airlines, Calpine, Kmart
and Mirant. Recent turn-around financings his team has executed include
Goody’s, Linens ‘n Things, Vertis Communications, DURA Automotive Systems and
Hancock Fabrics. Prior to this role, Rob
was the Chief Operating Officer at GE’s Commercial & Industrial Finance
group, overseeing business integration, Technology, Operations and Six Sigma
teams. McMahon also served as Six Sigma Leader, and obtained Quality Leader
certification. He joined GE Commercial Finance in 2000 as part of the
Structured Assets Group to help oversee the recovery of an investment portfolio
of financially distressed companies. Before GE, McMahon worked for 13 years at
ABN AMRO and its U.S. subsidiaries, European American Bank and LaSalle National
Bank managing non-performing portfolios of highly leveraged corporate
transactions and commercial real estate loans. McMahon graduated from Fairfield
University with a B.A. in Economics, and obtained an MBA from Northwestern
University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.