Malfitano Advisors, LLC, a provider of advisory services in the asset acquisition and disposition industry, announced that Allen Wong and Stephanie Gould, both accomplished finance professionals, have joined the firm. 

Allen Sun Chung Wong joins the group after working with AlixPartners in their Turnaround and Restructuring Services Group.  At AlixPartners, Allen served as an advisor to both debtors and creditors.  Representative debtor experience included serving as an advisor to: a specialty retail company, a solar electric company and a casino company.  Representative creditor experience included serving as an advisor to: second lien noteholders of an aluminum and bauxite company and the Unsecured Creditors Committee of a sports nutritional company.  Allen began his restructuring career at Grant Thornton in their Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services Group.  Allen holds a Masters in Financial Mathematics from Lehigh University and a Bachelors in Finance from Moravian College.  Allen will be based in New York City.

Stephanie Gould has 20+ years of experience working in and around finance, originally as a trading systems developer and IT manager for over 13 years in the technology group at Morgan Stanley and more recently as a financial analyst at Pennell Venture Partners, a venture capital and M&A advisory firm, and D&T’s Organic, an organic agricultural business.  Stephanie is a former world-class amateur triathlete and two-time Hawaii Ironman finisher.  Stephanie earned a BS in Computer Science at the University of Virginia.  Stephanie will be based in Boulder, Colorado. 

"Allen and Stephanie’s extensive experience adds tremendous depth to our advisory platform and will provide great value to our clients," said Joseph Malfitano, Managing Member of Malfitano Advisors. "Our clients look to us not only for our expertise on how to solicit, evaluate and structure acquisition and disposition transactions, but also to be the masters of the data behind such transactions.  The experience and skills of Allen and Stephanie allow us to further provide value to clients and other advisors."