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.