Wayne Walker is the Principal of Walker Nell Consultants, Inc. (“WNC”), a business consulting firm. Consistent with his experience of twenty years, Mr. Walker focuses on interim operational assignments, liquidations, trustee services, examiner and receiver roles, claims reconciliation, environmental trustee roles, plan administration and wind-downs.

Mr. Walker was Principal of W. R. Walker & Associates, an independent consulting firm for three years. The previous 15 years Mr. Walker worked for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, where he served as Senior Counsel. There he developed a national reputation for his expertise in business restructuring and insolvency, workouts, bankruptcy, financing and liquidations. Mr. Walker advised DuPont’s Financial Services Division, which was responsible for assessing customers’ creditworthiness as well as restructuring debtors, whether in or out of court. Mr. Walker advised on DuPont matters in the medical products, automotive, plastics, electronics, surfacing, fiber and petrochemical industries.

Three years prior to founding WNC, Mr. Walker was a Principal in a 500-person consulting and accounting firm. He was resident in the Business Reorganization Group where his practice focused on business restructuring, wind-downs, liquidations, interim operations, fiduciary roles and assignments for the benefit of creditors.

Mr. Walker has chaired numerous creditor committees including Standard Brands, Inc., Polycast /Uniroyal Company, Outdoor Sports Headquarters, Inc. Mr. Walker has also served as chief officer of several debtors-in-possession, including Allied Digital Technologies, Inc., filed in the District of Delaware; boo.com North America, inc., whose Chapter 11 plan was confirmed in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Walker also serves as Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of eTours, Inc., whose major assets he recently sold to Ask Jeeves, Inc., a publicly traded Internet company. Mr. Walker also serves as Disbursing and Claims Agent for General Cinemas, Inc., a post Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession who, when a public company, operated movie theatres throughout the United States and South America. In addition, Mr. Walker serves as Liquidating Trustee for Dairy Mart Convenience Stores, Inc., Liquidating Trust, a post Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession. Dairy Mart operated nearly 500 convenience stores through out the mid-western United States.

Mr. Walker is a Chapter 7 trustee in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and has presided over numerous cases including Regal Industries, Inc., a former watchband wholesaler, and Legend Healthcare, Inc., a former medical insurance claims agent.

For three years, Mr. Walker served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity International, a then $400 million plus global non-profit housing organization spanning 60 countries. Mr. Walker led the 27- member Board, governed 650 employees and turned the organization’s losses into a reserve. Mr. Walker also held positions of corporate secretary and chairman of the Executive and Human Resource Committees of the Board during his eight year tenure.

Mr. Walker has written for the Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law and has spoken on debtor/creditor rights and committees issues throughout the country.

Mr. Walker has a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Catholic University (Washington, DC) and a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University (New Orleans). His education has been supplemented by various continuing education courses offered by the Practicing Law Institute and American Bankruptcy Institute. Such courses include Accounting for the Business Lawyer, Norton Bankruptcy Litigation Institute, E-Commerce, Creditors’ Rights Issues, Preference and Fraudulent Conveyance Issues. Mr. Walker studied Finance for Non-Financial Manager at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Walker is an attorney licensed by the State Bar of Georgia. He is a member of the State Bar Association of Georgia, American Bar Association and American Bankruptcy Institute.

Mr. Walker serves on the boards of directors of People for People Community Federal Credit Union and People for People, Inc., where he chairs the Finance Committee.