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Ms. Whitehead has spent more than 20 years providing strategic and financial advice to businesses in various stages of development. As President of Pearson Enterprises, she has advised a variety of clients from a media convergence venture to a data mining company and was a principal and co-founder of Chusid/Whitehead Associates, a recognized authority in the rehabilitation of distressed real estate co-ops. Ms. Whitehead, a co-holder of a patent on a mortgage product and process used in the restructuring of excessive mortgage debt, has served as financial advisor and expert witness in numerous bankruptcy proceedings and other litigation matters including the asset recovery proceedings of National Heritage Life Insurance Company which, at the time, was the subject of one of the largest white collar frauds ever uncovered. Ms. Whitehead was also previously an executive at International Finance Group, Inc., a private merchant bank engaged in turnaround management where she served as interim CFO of Ameriscribe, an NYSE-listed facilities management company and acted as financial advisor to Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Company during its bankruptcy proceedings. Ms. Whitehead was also formerly a Senior Vice President in Corporate Finance at Dean Witter Reynolds and a Corporate Development officer at the First Boston Corporation. Ms. Whitehead started her career at the General Electric Company where she was trained in that company's renowned Financial Management Program and held positions in finance and strategic planning including manager of international strategic planning for the $6 billion consumer products businesses.
Ms. Whitehead received her M.B.A. in Finance and Public Policy from the Johnson School of Management of Cornell University with Distinction and her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University. | 