Leaders
Michael Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton is currently the Chairman of the Board of an international marine and defense contractor. He also has his own valuation, financial modeling and bankruptcy and restructuring practice. Previously he had been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MMC Energy, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company which he took through liquidation, ending in December of 2009. He was a Senior Vice President for Powerlink Transmission Company, a private equity sponsored company that looked to invest in electric power transmission assets, the non-executive Chairman of the Board of MXenergy, Inc., a retail gas and electric marketing company with operations in 14 states in the U. S. and two Canadian provinces, which was successfully sold to Constellation Energy in 2011. Prior to these assignments, he was an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a senior managing director at FTI Consulting, specializing in the energy industry, which he joined upon his retirement from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in February 2003. Michael has been involved in numerous utility and energy industry restructuring and bankruptcy situations since 1989. He has served as the financial advisor to numerous interest groups where he brings his knowledge of both utility finance and his restructuring skills to maximize recovery for his clients. In this regard, his activities include due diligence, sophisticated computer modeling, creditor committee management and transaction negotiation. He has also served in an interim management capacity for a troubled gas distribution company and assisted a district heating and cooling company to develop accounting and budgeting controls and refinance its business. Mr. Hamilton is a CPA licensed in California, the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York. He is Accredited in Business Valuation, Certified in Financial Forensics and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, a Certified Turnaround Professional and is a Certified Rate of Return Analyst. Michael has been honored with the 2023 AICPA Outstanding Facilitator Award.