Key People

  • Our team has played key roles as investors or advisors in numerous restructurings and special situations, from some of the largest in history to the lower middle market.

  • Backgrounds include Goldman Sachs, Davis Polk, Alvarez & Marsal, FTI and GE Capital.

  • Strong history of driving winning outcomes for our stakeholders.

  • Track record includes creating landmark solutions for clients facing funding challenges.

Tom Tormey, Partner

Tom founded Alastar in 2022 following his retirement from Goldman Sachs where he was a Partner. Tom has over 25 years of investing and advisory experience across numerous industries and asset classes. At Goldman Tom ran various proprietary businesses, including Structured Finance Investing & Lending, Principal Funding & Investing and High Yield & Distressed Investing. Throughout his career at Goldman, Tom invested in and managed significant risk positions for the Firm and created innovative solutions for clients across numerous asset classes, including special situation credit and equity, securitizations, aviation and commodities financing. Tom also managed restructurings of large risk positions for the Firm across various businesses. Tom joined Goldman in March 2008 as a Vice President, was named Managing Director in 2010 and Partner in 2014; he also served on the Structured Finance Capital Committee and the Global Markets Investment Committee while at the Firm. Previously, Tom was a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in the bankruptcy workout group where he focused on restructurings of public and private companies. Tom also worked at UBS and as a law clerk to two federal judges (SDNY and Second Circuit). Tom serves on the investment committee for Clongowes Wood College, his secondary school in Ireland where he grew up. Tom received a B.A. from Georgetown and a J.D. from Fordham (Law Review). Tom is a member of the New York Bar.

Rick Arrowsmith, Partner

Rick is a Partner in Alastar’s Structured Capital Solutions business focused on helping clients create solutions for complex financing challenges. Rick has over 35 years of advisory, investing and asset management experience in special situations and restructurings across numerous industries. Prior to joining Alastar, Rick served as Senior Managing Director in FTI’s Healthcare Restructuring Group where he served as Chief Restructuring Officer and then Trustee for HDL Liquidating Trust, a lab testing company in Richmond, VA; advised a $20 billion global private equity fund including repositioning a nursing home chain and acquiring multi-state assisted living portfolio; advised a healthcare software provider in a dispute with a hospital system. Prior to FTI, Rick served as Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal, where he advised senior lenders in the wind-down and sale of Atherotech, Inc., a clinical lab business; and was appointed receiver for Satori Waters, a behavioral provider. Previously, Rick worked at GE Capital as an SVP of the Special Assets Group, where he risk-managed and restructured numerous troubled credit and equity positions across asset classes. Rick received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, and an M.S. from American University. Rick serves as a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and Turnaround Management Association (TMA).

Getty Melaku

Getty focuses on Performance Improvement, Interim CFO and CFO Support services. Prior to joining Alastar, Getty spent over 20 years at GE Capital, where he held roles of increasing seniority including CFO of GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services, a leading provider of debt and equity financing to the healthcare industry with $15 billion in assets, as well as CFO for GE Africa, a region with $4 billion in revenues. Getty also served as CFO of a credit card division in Capital One with over $25 billion in assets and $3.5 billion in revenues, and as Partner & Head of Finance for Brown Advisory, an investment manager with over $125 billion in assets under management. Throughout his career, Getty has driven business growth through detailed financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and has risk-managed large portfolios of debt and equity investments, including through restructuring cycles. Getty received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union and an MBA from Columbia University.​

Nick Campanella

Nick focuses on Performance Improvement, CFO Support services, and Restructurings. Prior to joining Alastar, Nick spent seven years at Alvarez & Marsal where he focused on performance improvement and restructurings across a wide range of businesses, from multi-billion-dollar public companies to the lower middle market. Among other roles, Nick worked with management, private equity sponsors and other stakeholders to develop financial and operational strategies to improve cash flow and operations and drive strategic turnarounds. At A&M, Nick developed numerous cash flow budgets to assist companies in managing liquidity during times of crisis, including vendor management and other cash acceleration strategies. He also identified and implemented material EBITDA improvements for many of his clients at times of critical change. Nick graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Finance.

Michael Mendelsohn

Michael focuses on Restructurings, Performance Improvement and Liquidity Management for companies at financial and operational inflection points. Prior to joining Alastar, Michael spent seven years at Alvarez & Marsal advising management teams, lenders, and private equity sponsors on complex turnaround and special situations across the healthcare sector. His work included Chapter 11 support for GenesisCare, including 13-week cash flow forecasting, lease restructuring, and labor and cost optimization initiatives. Previously, Michael served as Director of Finance at CareOne, a $1 billion skilled nursing operator, where he led FP&A, budgeting, M&A diligence, covenant compliance, and lender negotiations, closing over $500 million in financings. Earlier in his career, Michael held finance and strategy roles at public companies, following his start in investment banking. Michael holds a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean Leeming

Sean focuses on Structured Capital Solutions and Performance Improvement, including playing a lead role in creating an operating and financing model for a growing medical technology company, creating a receivables-based solution for a venture-funded fintech and analyzing a risk transfer transaction between a sovereign wealth fund and a regulated bank. Prior to Alastar, Sean spent four years at J.P. Morgan where he was a market risk analyst for the equity derivatives and fixed income financing businesses. Among other roles, Sean analyzed market risk of structured financing transactions across various asset classes, including private and public credit and equities. Sean graduated from Bentley University with a B.S. in Finance.

J.P. Marcos

J.P. focuses on Restructurings and Performance Improvement. Prior to joining Alastar, J.P. spent two years at Riveron in the Restructuring and Turnaround Services practice. At Riveron, he worked with sponsor-backed middle market businesses across aerospace, specialty finance, biotech, media, and consumer products. J.P. has worked closely with management teams, legal counsel, lenders, and sponsors to drive key outcomes in complex situations including Chapter 11 bankruptcy. J.P. graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Ram Sundaram, Senior Advisor

Ram is a private investor through several private and public vehicles. Previously, Ram was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where over a 20-year career he started and built various proprietary investing businesses. These businesses included Global Structured Finance Investing & Lending, a private side lending, investing and funding platform focused on secured financing across asset classes as well as a solutions-driven Principal Investing business and its predecessor business Principal Funding & Investing. Ram also served as Head of Global Currencies & Emerging Markets, Co-Chair of the Global Markets Investment Committee, and a member of the Firmwide Investment Policy Committee. Ram joined Goldman Sachs in 2001 as a Vice President, was named Managing Director in 2005 and Partner in 2008. Previously, Ram worked at Morgan Stanley and at Merrill Lynch. Ram is a Board Member of the Child Mind Institute in New York City and a member of the Dean’s Council at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Ram received a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester.

George Brokaw, Senior Advisor

George is a private investor through several private and public investment vehicles and a Senior Advisor to Aventail Capital Group, an energy focused asset manager with primary responsibilities focused on special situations. George also serves on the board of directors of several public and private companies including EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS), Alico Inc. (NASDAQ: ALCO) and Consolidated Tomoka Land Co (NYSE: CTO). Previously, George served as Managing Director of the Highbridge Growth Equity Fund at Highbridge Principal Strategies. Prior to joining Highbridge, George was a Managing Partner and Head of Private Equity at Perry Capital. Prior to Perry, George was Managing Director of Lazard Frères in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. George received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Virginia. George is a member of the New York Bar.