Ian S. Fredericks is Chief Executive Officer of Capital Solutions (Americas) at Hilco Global. Ian also serves as Executive Director of the Hilco Global Consumer and Retail practice as well as Global Head of Data and Innovation.

Since joining Hilco in 2011, Ian has been recognized as a leader in the financial services industry, having been honored as a Top Retail Expert by RETHINK Retail from 2024 through 2026 and an Emerging Leader by the M&A Advisor in 2017.

Ian speaks regularly about asset-based lending as well as the retail and consumer sectors of the U.S. economy. He is a frequent panelist at conferences and events, including JPMorgan’s Global Leveraged Finance Conference, the Secured Finance Network’s Asset-Based Capital Conference and other events, and annual conferences for the Turnaround Management Association and INSOL.

Additionally, Ian is regularly quoted and featured in publications like Women’s Wear Daily, RetailRx, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Debtwire, and The Deal. Ian has also been a podcast guest on Secured Finance Network’s “In the Know”, Debtwire’s “Debtwired”, and ION Analytics’ “Influencers Fireside Chat”, among others. Ian is also the host of RetailRx’s podcast series featuring exceptional and up-and-coming retailers and consumer products businesses.

In June 2023, Ian graduated from Harvard Business School’s Business Analytics Program, an 18-month program in leadership, business analytics, technology, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Hilco, Ian was a member of the Corporate Restructuring group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP and, before that, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP.

Ozzie joined Huntington Business Credit in September 2022 working as both a Relationship Manager and Business Development Officer – Retail Finance. Ozzie has specialized in providing asset-based solutions for the retail and consumer products industries for over fifteen years. He has served in multiple capacities at Huntington sourcing, onboarding, underwriting and managing credits ranging from $10MM to $150MM. Prior to joining Huntington, Ozzie was a Senior Appraiser in Gordon Brothers’ Retail Group. Ozzie was involved in advising and evaluating a broad range of companies across the retail industry including direct to consumer, omni-channel, and brick and mortar retailers ranging from emerging entities to publicly-traded multinational corporations. He was fully engaged in the internal appraisal process as well as the external client presentation process and saw companies through various stages of performance including acquisition, turnaround, restructuring and liquidation transactions. Ozzie has a BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.

Kyle Sturgeon is a Managing Partner and co-founder of MERU, a restructuring and performance improvement firm that works with middle-market companies and their boards, lenders and sponsors. Over nearly twenty years he has advised businesses in transition, most often in situations where operating problems and balance sheet problems arrive at the same time. He has served in interim leadership roles, including Chief Restructuring Officer and interim Chief Financial Officer, and has represented companies, creditors and equity holders in out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 cases and orderly wind-downs.

His practice centers on the operating mechanics of a distressed situation: building liquidity forecasts management and stakeholders can rely on, installing cash controls, testing business plan viability, finding and executing cost and working capital improvements, and framing strategic alternatives so boards can make decisions with a clear view of the trade-offs. He has led engagements across consumer and retail, healthcare, technology and IT services, industrial and building services, agriculture and food, and energy and renewables, in businesses ranging from founder-owned companies to publicly traded issuers. Some have concluded in going-concern sales with lenders repaid in full; others have required a wind-down, and he has advised boards through both.

Before co-founding MERU in 2017, Kyle was a Senior Vice President in McKinsey & Company’s Recovery & Turnaround Services practice and a Director in Alvarez & Marsal’s North American Corporate Restructuring practice. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor and received the Zolfo Cooper / Randy Waits gold medal in 2009 for the highest score on the CIRA examination. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in economics, and is based in Atlanta.