Mr. Kaufman serves as a Managing Partner of Bacchus and on its Investment Committee. Mr. Kaufman is the President of Gordian Group. He heads the firm's Restructuring and Distressed M&A practice. Mr. Kaufman has recently been ranked the #1 national investment banker in financial restructuring byThe Deal.

Prior to joining Gordian, Mr. Kaufman was at First Boston Corp, where he was a founding member of its Distressed Securities Group. He has over 25 years of experience in solving complex financial challenges, as both an investment banker and an attorney. Mr. Kaufman has been involved in many of the firm's significant engagements, including, among others: Alert Holdings, Allied Digital Technologies, Ameriserve, Ben & Jerry's, Chiquita Brands, Colfor/Colmach, Enron, Farmland, Federal Communications Commission, Foss Manufacturing, Hooked-on-Phonics, Idle-Aire Technologies, IES, Intelogic Trace, Lamonts, Liberty House, London Fog, LTV Steel, Martin Color Fi, MBIA, MiniScribe, Mississippi Chemical, Morrison-Knudsen, Nationwise Automotive, Ogden Corporation, Osyka, Pacific Delight, Petsec Energy, Pentacon, Phar-Mor, Pinnacle Towers, RailWorks, Riedel Environmental, Safety-Kleen, Silicon Gaming, Solutia, State of Vermont, Sudbury, Summit Global Logistics, The Walter Karl Companies, United Rentals, Waste Systems, and Zultys.

Mr. Kaufman is the founding Co-Chairman of the Committee on Investment Banking of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). He is also a Contributing Editor, on Ethics, for the ABI Journal.

He is consistently named one of the ten leading national investment bankers in financial restructurings by The Deal, and has been the subject of a profile in The Deal.

Mr. Kaufman received Bachelor of Arts degrees with Honors in history and art history from Yale College and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was in the top 25% of his class.

Mr. Kaufman co-authored the leading book in the restructuring field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back, published in 2005 by Beard Books LLC. He is also co-author of (i) The Role of the Investment Banker, Bankruptcy Business Acquisitions, LexMed Publishing, 1998, which details various strategies and tactics used in distressed situations, and (ii) Trading in the Distressed Market, Investing in Bankruptcies and Turnarounds, Harper Collins Publishers 1991.