Mr. Knight has served as a CEO, business consultant, interim manager, and court-appointed receiver of troubled and emerging companies. He has extensive experience in organizational restructuring, benchmarking to best practices, developing and implementing comprehensive cost control and efficiency efforts, strategic business planning and complex business transactions.

Mr. Knight is a hands-on manager with extensive turnaround experience in manufacturing, technology, retail, construction (service & material supplies), distribution, and real estate, and has worked extensively in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Michael has completed dozens of complex business transactions including business sales, mergers, acquisitions, liquidations, and placements of both debt and equity.

A well-known and highly-regarded leader in the turnaround profession, Michael is a frequent speaker on crisis management, distressed M&A and turnaround issues.

Mr. Knight is a graduate of Augustana College (B.A.) and Hamline University School of Law (J.D.) and is a member or past member of the following: Founder and Past-President, Upper Midwest Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association; International Board Member and Executive Committee Member, Turnaround Management Association (an 8,000 member international trade association of professionals who are dedicated to improving the profitability and performance of troubled companies); American Bankruptcy Institute; Bankruptcy and International Business Law Sections, Minnesota State Bar Association; and, the U.S. Court of International Trade.