Robert McMahon • Managing Director, GE Capital, Restructuring Finance

Rob McMahon is the head of GE Capital, Restructuring Finance. Rob and his team work with turnaround advisors to provide senior secured loans to distressed companies supporting Chapter 11 filings, plan-of-reorganizations and out-of-court restructurings. Turnaround financings in 2009 include: Spectrum Brands, BI-LO, LLC, Caraustar Industries, Inc., Sportsman's Warehouse and one of the largest exit financings in 2009, Quebecor. 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.