Recognition Awards - Maadvisor.net

JONATHAN SALTZMAN is Managing Director and
Co-Founder of Torque Capital Group, a private equity firm investing
in special situations in manufacturing. At Torque, Jonathan takes a central role
in the sourcing, structuring, financing and management of portfolio companies.
Before co-founding Torque, Jonathan was a senior investment professional at
The Cypress Group, a New York-based private equity firm that has invested
over $4 billion in transactions whose total value exceeds $22 billion. Prior to
The Cypress Group, Jonathan sourced and led transactions at BG Strategic
Advisors, a boutique investment bank focused on the supply chain sector, leveraging the operational experience
developed as Corporate Finance Manager for the Amsterdam-based logistics and shipping multinational
TNT N.V. Before TNT, Jonathan worked in Salomon Brothers’ investment bank, where he advised on
a broad array of capital markets and M&A transactions. Jonathan began his career as a public auditor with
Ernst & Young. Jonathan is a Director of J-Pac/Doyen Medipharm (medical outsourced manufacturing)
and TPC/Dynamic Turbine (industrial and aerospace engine parts manufacturing). Jonathan holds an MBA
from The Anderson School at U.C.L.A. and a BBA with highest distinction from Emory University. He is active
in the Turnaround Management Association and the Association for Corporate Growth and charitable
organizations including New York Cares and Cents Ability. Jonathan resides in New York’s Lower East Side
and is an avid tennis player, mountain biker and traveler.
ALEXANDER SHAPIRO is a Director at Tegris Advisors,
LLC. He has over ten years of investment banking, corporate finance and
legal transactional experience at Tegris Advisors, Deutsche Bank and Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Dr. Shapiro has successfully executed a number
of M&A, high yield debt, structured finance, restructuring and lending transactions.
Most recently, Dr. Shapiro has executed a multi-billion dollar cross-border
transaction as part of the Tegris team. Dr. Shapiro has developed numerous
relationships with large corporate clients, including Boeing, GE Aviation, Unitedhealth
Group, BAE Systems, EADS, Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, SAFRAN and Thales. In
addition, Dr. Shapiro has worked extensively with middle-market companies across a wide range of fields,
including aerospace, media, healthcare, insurance, financial services and chemicals, among others. Prior
to commencing his legal practice, Dr. Shapiro was a physicist at the University of California, San Diego
and has conducted materials physics research at major national laboratories, including Los Alamos and
Lawrence Livermore. Dr. Shapiro holds a JD degree from Columbia Law School, a PhD in Physics from
the University of California, San Diego and a bachelors degree with departmental honors in Physics from
Stanford University.
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