11th Annual Credit, Restructuring, Distressed Investing and Turnaround Conference

Glenn Tilton

CEO

United Continental Holdings

Mr. Glenn Tilton was Midwest Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee at JP Morgan Chase from 2011 to 2014. He was Chairman, President, and CEO of United Continental Holdings Inc. (formerly UAL Corporation) from 2002-2010. UAL Corporation and its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy in December 2002, three months into Mr. Tilton's tenure. What would follow would be one of the largest, longest, and most complex bankruptcy cases in American history. Mr. Tilton successfully guided UAL Corporation to exit bankruptcy in 2006.

Jerry O'Brien

Founder, CEO & CIO

O'Brien-Staley Partners

Mr. O'Brien serves as President, CEO and Chief Investment Officer for OÔÇÖBrien-Staley Partners and has 25 years of experience. Formerly senior partner and head of global loan portfolios for CarVal Investors. 17 years of experience across all aspects of financial businesses for Cargill and CarVal. Early career with Chemical Bank and DG Investment Bank in New York. MBA from University of Chicago and AB from University of Michigan.

Amir Sufi

Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Amir Sufi is the Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Professor Sufi was awarded the 2017 Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial economics scholar under the age of 40.

Professor Sufi's research focuses on finance and macroeconomics. His research on household debt and the economy forms the basis of his book co-authored with Atif Mian: House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again, which was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014. He earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2005.