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 responsible executive and operational officer roles, liquidations, trustee services, examiner and
receiver roles, interim operational assignments, environmental trustee
roles and wind-downs.
Prio to founding WNC, Mr.
Walker was a Principal in a mid-Atlantic 500-person consulting and accuonting firm for three years. He was resident in the business reorganization group where his practice focused on business restructuring, wind-downs, liquidation, interim operations, fiduciary roles and assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Prior to joining the accounting and consulting firm, Mr. Walker was Principal of W. R. Walker & Associates, an
independent consulting firm for three years. The previous
fifteen 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.
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.
Mr.
Walker is a former Chapter 7 trustee in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
and has presided over numerous individual and corporate cases including Regal Industries,
Inc., a former watchband wholesaler; and Legend Healthcare,
Inc., a former medical insurance claims agent; and Innovation Factory, Inc., a former manufacturer of high-end automotive de-icers.
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 and Turnaround Management Association.
Mr.
Walker serves on the Board of Directors of People for People, Inc.'s
Community Federal Credit Union. He a;sp serves on the Board of Directors for People, Inc.,
a multi-million dollar community non-profit, where he is Chairman of the Finance Committee.