Howard Brod Brownstein is President of The Brownstein Corporation, a turnaround and crisis management firm, and regularly serves as an independent board member for public and private companies as well as large nonprofits. He is President and Chair of the NACD Philadelphia Chapter, and is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow.

Mr. Brownstein recently served as Chief Restructuring Officer in U.S. Mortgage which involved a $138 million mortgage fraud, and led the Plan Administrator team in Montgomery Ward LLC, the largest retail liquidation in history. He serves on the Board and Audit Committee of P&F Industries (Nasdaq: PFIN), a publicly-held manufacturer and importer of air-powered tools and various residential hardware, and served on the Board of Betsey Johnson LLC, a well-known privately-held designer and retailer of women’s apparel through 70 stores and outlets, with equity sponsor Castanea Partners. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Special Metals Corporation, a $1 billion nickel alloy producer, where he also chaired the Audit Committee and which was sold in 2006 at a substantial gain, and on the Board and Audit Committee of Magnatrax Corporation, a $500 million manufacturer of metal buildings, which was similarly sold in 2007.