He recently served as the interim chief financial officer of Lineage Power Corporation, a $500 million revenue company formed by The Gores Group to acquire Tyco Electronics Power Systems, a leading manufacturer of power conversion and back-up systems for the telecom industry. He led a team to set up a new stand-alone finance organization and a number of operational improvements for the company, which had reported substantial operating losses under Tyco.

Prior to that, he was part of an interim management team, managing a business process outsourcing company where he was the principal finance person charged with stabilizing, recapitalizing and selling the troubled European operations based in Paris, while successfully settling several significant lawsuits and obtaining a favorable “conciliation/homologation” ruling by the Paris Commercial Court for the series of transactions.

Before joining FTI, he was the interim chairman, chief executive officer, chief restructuring officer and principal financing officer of EaglePicher Incorporated, a $650 million, 160-year old conglomerate, which manufactured highly specialized products for the automotive, aerospace and defense, pharmaceutical, mining and nuclear power industries.  He led the company through a complex recapitalization of $700 million of debt and preferred stock. The headquarters were moved from Phoenix to Detroit and several plants were closed, consolidated or relocated. The secured lenders were repaid 100% and the bondholders received 100% of the common stock.

Before that, Mr. Gleichenhaus led the southwest practice for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance, leading the oil and gas industry transactions advisory services for North America and the restructuring advisory services for the southwest. He was involved in: Enron, WorldCom, American Cellular, Dobson, Comdisco, Classic Cable, Aquila, Mirant, and TECO, each of which had several billion in debt. Other situations included:  HQ Global, AMPAM, Avado Brands, Quanta Services, 360Networks, MetalsUSA, and Butler Manufacturing. He has advised both companies and lenders in these transactions. In 2001, Mr. Gleichenhaus advised Giuliani Partners on its formation.

In the 1990’s, he spent 10 years at Banc of America Securities in a variety of positions in Dallas and New York, originating and structuring leveraged financings in the media and telecom, energy, manufacturing and construction industries. He was the chief operating officer of the media and telecom group and led the investment banking business for the southwest and west. Notable transactions include Halliburton, FINA, Nextel, Ascent Entertainment, Lennar, Pillowtex, Belden and Blake, Maxxim Medical, Kevco, ABC Supply and International Shipholding.

In the 1980’s, he was with GE Capital, Trammell Crow, Salomon Brothers and Merrill Lynch in Dallas, Chicago, London and New York, completing leveraged buyouts of Southland, Swift, Color Tile, Republic Health and A&W Brands, among other energy and industrial leveraged transactions.

Mr. Gleichenhaus holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.