Elizabeth M. Lynch joined DSI in 2007 to serve as its Vice President of Marketing & Business Development and to head the firm’s Cleveland, Ohio, operations. Ms. Lynch brings to DSI nearly 30 years of commercial lending experience in both asset-based and cash flow finance. Her extensive experience in asset-based lending includes particular emphasis on credit approval, structuring and underwriting, portfolio management and workout strategy development. Ms. Lynch is also skilled in credit, cash flow and collateral analysis and, as a longtime executive in the banking sector, has cultivated her portfolio and personnel managerial experience.
Since joining DSI, Ms. Lynch has been participated in a variety of firm engagements ranging from serving as an advisor in the matter of Johnson Rubber, an automotive parts manufacturer and supplier in Northeast Ohio, to supporting the Chapter 11 Trustee’s administration of Namco Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based investment company. Currently, she serves as the federal court-appointed Receiver in three separate foreclosure matters involving dairy farms operating under Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation regulations. In the first of these receiverships, Ms. Lynch worked closely with potential buyers of the property and her efforts resulted in approved bid amounts well in excess of the initial stalking horse bids. In addition, these matters have required knowledge of and adherence to various CAFO regulatory requirements, herd health and production metrics and regional agricultural practices.
Prior to joining DSI, Ms. Lynch served as Director at GMAC Commercial Finance in Cleveland, where she was one of a three-person team responsible for developing regional lending activities of GMACCF Structured Finance Division. Among her accomplishments were the successful expansion of GMACCF’s business with regional private equity firms and the development and promotion of a national calling effort that targeted turnaround and restructuring referral sources.
Ms. Lynch received her Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, where she also received extensive study in Spanish, French and German. She is currently a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and a Board member of Cleveland’s Turnaround Management Association.
