About me
Mr. Hays is a court appointed fiduciary and forensic accountant that specializes in recovering funds from insolvent companies and investment offerings. He is routinely appointed by federal and state courts as a receiver or bankruptcy trustee to manage businesses to maximize recovery for creditors. He has been appointed as receiver in over a dozen federal equity receiverships in seven states. He has also served as a panel trustee in Georgia for over twenty-five years.
Mr. Hays has forty years of financial experience including thirty-five years managing insolvency cases and investigating fraud. He manages a firm of corporate financial consultants that specializes in turnarounds, workouts, asset recovery, forensic accounting, litigation support, and interim management. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional (“CTP”) and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (“CIRA”) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors. He is on the board and a Past President of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers.
Mr. Hays is a recognized expert in Ponzi schemes and receiverships and has been quoted in many articles in national publications. The TV show American Greed featured a story a Ponzi scheme where he served as receiver. Other cases have been the subject of TV broadcasts including CNN's Anderson Cooper, CBS Evening News, and many local news programs.
He has spoken on bankruptcy, receiver and forensic accounting issues at conferences sponsored by the ABI, ACFE, AIRA, IAAR, INSOL, NABT, NACM, NAFER, NCBJ, TMA and other professional organizations.
