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Raymond is Chairman and CEO of American Equity Partners, which is a holding company formed in 1992 to specifically focus on investments and restructuring of distressed and underperforming companies. Raymond has over 30 years of senior leadership, management and restructuring experience and has managed the distressed portfolio or selected portfolio companies for private equity funds, including George Soros and Cerberus Capital Management LLP. He has successfully reorganized numerous companies in financial and operational difficulty and has served as Chairman and CEO or as a Director of NYSE, Amex, Nasdaq and private companies, and has held senior management positions including Chairman and CEO and President of billion-dollar businesses as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies, including Mueller Industries, AT&T International, United Press International, RCA International, Accessory Place, Jos. A Banks, Crystal Oil, ERC Industries and Protect Services Industries. Raymond has also managed various Cerberus portfolio companies including Mervyns and Tandem Staffing Solutions, GDX and GHP and currently sits on the board of several Cerberus portfolio companies including Galaxy Cable, GDX and GHP. Raymond is presently managing director of Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company.
Raymond holds a BA from Queens College and an MBA from Columbia University. He is also a CPA in New York State. | 