Executive Roster

John Buck

Managing Director, Corporate Restructuring & Transaction Support

johnbuck@traversellc.com
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CV:

Mr. Buck brings over 30 years of experience in corporate restructuring, private equity, executive management, special situations and consulting, primarily in a leadership role. His experience spans a variety of industries and organizations, servicing primarily middle market privately held corporations, as well as debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured creditors, private equity groups, and strategic buyers.  Mr Buck has held numerous leadership positions as Board Member and Executive Officer.  Prior to joining Traverse, John worked at hedge fund DW Partners leading their special situations group deploying $300MM in 10 control and non-control debt and equity investments; John also was a Managing Director at Versa Capital sourcing and leading special situation acquisitions totaling $500MM.  John was also a Vice President at Cerberus Capital.

Industry Experience:

  • Private Equity
  • Healthcare
  • Information Services
  • Specialty Finance
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Distribution & Logistics
  • Business Services
  • Energy
  • Media
  • Entertainment

EDUCATION & MILITARY EXPERIENCE:

  • Master of Arts with Distinction – Villanova University
  • MBA with Honors, Beta Gamma Sigma – Temple University Fox School of Business
  • BSE in Bioengineering; Minor in Chemical Engineering – University of Pennsylvania

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BOARDS & ASSOCIATIONS:

  • Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
  • Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA)
  • Paramount Business Solutions Board Member

Recent Engagements Include:

  • Engaged as Chief Financial & Administrative for a specialty healthcare service Company providing 50,000 annual procedures in 7 States in the Northeastern USA at numerous locations.
  • Engaged by large multi-billion-dollar strategic third-party logistics company to provide due diligence and quality of earnings analysis on dominant regional third-party logistics company in a transaction valued at $280 million.
  • Engaged as VP of M&A for real world evidence healthcare data provider.  Led diligence and financing for 2 acquisitions.
  • Engaged as Chief of Staff for PE-sponsored information services provider and led operational restructuring.
  • Business Development Lead: Led VC/PE introductions for PE-sponsored pharma-tech company.