L. M. Levie

Chairman

• Chairman and Founder of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, the AIAC Foundation Inc., the Champlain Foundation Inc., the Avara Charitable Foundation Inc., and the Canadian Kraft Foundation.
• Chairman or Director of AIAC subsidiaries or affiliates, including American Kraft Paper Industries, Automated Machine & Technology, Arnprior Aerospace (Canada, US, and Mexico), Avara Pharmaceutical Services, BeLink Solutions, Bradford Space, Caisses et Pallets du Massif Central, Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, Champlain Cable, Champlain Specialty Metals, Combi Wear Parts, Consolidated Industries, CPMC, Craft Machine Works, D2A, Druckguss-Technik, Epalia, Eurofoil France, Eurofoil Luxembourg, Forte Micro, Feuerwehrbedarf, Gecoe, Gelec, IP3 Plastics, La Palette Comtoise, Lacroix Signalization Company, Lenape Forged Products, Metallwarenfabrik Gemmingen, Neotiss, SFGP, Shriro Group, Shriro Holdings, Stanz-Technik, Stromerzeugersysteme, SuperAlloy Manufacturing Solutions, Titanium Fabrication Corporation, Ti-Titanium, Umbilicals International, Union Metal Industries, Vital Engineered Components Company (VECCO), VECCO Witchita, and Vermont Aerospace Industries.
• Chairman of the AIAC-Koch Industries joint venture, Liquid Cooled Motors.
• Previously served as Chairman of former AIAC units, including All Circuits, MSL Circuits, BMS Circuits, TIS Circuits, Amnitec, Bright Green Plastics, Cubigel, ECAPS, Habia Teknofluor, JST Transformateur, Malaga Aerospace Defense Electronics Systems, MCI, Sodiamex, and U.S. Hose.
• Awarded the 2024 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, memorialized in the Congressional Record of the US Senate and House of Representatives.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Explorers Club, the Forest Products Association of Canada, and of the Gabby Wild Foundation. Founding Trustee of the Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association.
• Member of the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations Legacy Society, the Yale CEO Summit, the Chairman’s Legacy Society of the Atlantic Council, the Patrons Circle of the Japan Society, and the Centennial Society and Legacy Society of the Economic Club of New York.
• Member of the Heritage Society of the National Academy of Sciences, the President’s Circle and the 1848 Society of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Minerva Society of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Member of the Center for a New American Security’s Council and its Leadership’s Circle and the Rand Corporation Legacy Society.
• Fellow of the Asia Society, of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and of the Royal Geographical Society. Member of the Summit Council of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Wildlife Heritage Circle of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
• Guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Turnaround Management Association.
• US Delegate, Choose France Summit, le Chateau de Versailles, France, May 15, 2023, at the invitation of His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, President of the Republic of France.
• Panelist with His Excellency Hon. Fabius Laurent, former Prime Minister of the Republic of France, on Investing in France, at the Consulate General of France in New York City, October 1, 2015.
• Member of the White House Historical Association Legacy Society and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
• Member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board for the Citizens Committee for New York City.
• Member of the Naval War College Foundation, and Chairman of the Professor Howard S. Levie Chair on the Law of Armed Conflict Endowment Society.
• Member of the Jesup Legacy Circle of the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, and the Henry Cole Circle of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Member of the National Air and Space Museum Legacy Society and Honoree of the National Air and Space Museum Wall of Honor. Member of the National Space Society and Member of the Legacy Society and the Constellation Club of the Space Foundation.
• Member of the Futures Society of the Museum of American Finance.
• Member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., Founder of the Statue of Liberty Museum and Member of the Ellis Island Honors Society.
• Member of the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society of Harvard Law School, the John C. Whitehead Society of Harvard Business School, the 1754 Society of Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins Legacy Society, the Founding Grant Society of Stanford University, the 1861 Circle of MIT, the Legacy Society of the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton University, Yale Legacy Partners, the 1209 Society of the University of Cambridge, the Phoenix Society of the University of Chicago, the Order of St. Thomas More of the University of Notre Dame, the Aspen Legacy Society of the Aspen Institute, the Laureate Circle of the Rockefeller University, the Wikipedia Legacy Society, and the President’s Associates of the University of Oklahoma.
• Member of the William Society of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Modern Circle of the Museum of Modern Art, the Buckingham Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, La Societe des Amis de Versailles, the Masterpiece Society of the Louvre Museum, the Henry Cole Circle of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Futures Society of the Museum of American Finance, the J. Paul Getty Founders Society of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the 1924 Society of the Morgan Library & Museum, the Guggenheim Society of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, the Henry Clay Frick Associates of the Frick Collection, the Legacy Circle of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Irish Art Patron of the National Gallery of Ireland, and Patron of the Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum of the University of Oklahoma.
• Founding Member of the Societa Venezia Per Sempre of Save Venice and Member of the Venice International Foundation. Member of the World Monuments Fund Legacy Society.
• Member of the Executive Committee and Patron of the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Chairman of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation and Benefactor of the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. Member of the W. S. Gilbert Society, the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, and the Gilbert & Sullivan Society.
• Member of the Isaac Stern Society of Carnegie Hall, the Encore Society and the National Guild of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, and of Le Cercle Fides de l’Opera National de Paris.
• National Patron and Member of the Rostropovich Society of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Member of the Patron Circle of the Royal Academy of Music.
• Member of the Social Register, the Harvard Faculty Club, the Yale Club of New Haven, the University Club and the Army Navy Club of Washington D.C., the Hyannis Yacht Club, the Harvard Club of New York Foundation, the New York Yacht Club Foundation Legacy Society, the East India Devonshire Sports & Public Schools Club of London, the Royal Thames Yacht Club, the Royal Ascot Racing Club, the Woodgate Society of the Vincent’s Club of the University of Oxford, the Oxford Union, the Hawks Dining Rights Club of the University of Cambridge, the American Club of Paris, the Inanda Club of Sandton and the Rand Club of Johannesburg, South Africa. Benefactor of the Cosmos Club Historic Preservation Foundation of Washington, D.C.
• Member of the American Red Cross Legacy Society and the Alexander Graham Bell Legacy Society of the National Geographic Society.
• Member of the Harvard Business School Clubs of Boston, Chicago, New York, Silicon Valley, London, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, India, Singapore and South Africa.
• Member of the American Bar Association, the Copper Club, the Family Office Association, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Turnaround Management Association, the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the Institute of Directors.
• Member of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy, Alliance Francaise, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Canadian International Council, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce, the Goethe Institute, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Foreign Policy Association and the Policy Exchange.
• Peacekeeper of the Carter Center. Member of the Philanthropists for Peace of the International Crisis Group, and Patron of the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc.
• Benefactor of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, La Grande Chancellerie de la Legion d’Honneur, Paris, and the United Nations Museum, Geneva.
• Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame Legacy Society.
• Platinum Member of the English Chess Federation, Member of the Greater London Chess Club and of the U.S. Chess Federation. Member of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.
• Awarded the Turnaround Management Association’s 2017, 2018, and 2019 Turnaround of the Year Awards for the revival of Vermont Aerospace Industries, Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, and Union Metal Industries.

Robert Blumenfeld

Managing Director

Robert (Bobby) Blumenfeld has over 30 years of experience working with business owners in a broad range of industry sectors, including manufacturing, business services, consumer, retail, health care and technology; providing corporate restructuring, investment banking, and mergers and acquisitions services.

• ACG Cares
• New York Society of Association Executives
• D’Oyle Carte Foundation
• Past President ACG New York
• Past Board Member TMA New York

• ACG Global President's Award
• Thomas Farrell Memorial Award (M&A Advisor)
• ACG New York’s Peter Hilton Award
• ACG Global Meritorious Award for Outstanding Service

• ACG New York - 15 years as President and Executive Director
• Buccino Associates, Managing Director and SVP, National Restructuring Firm
• Bryant Park Capital, Managing Director, Investment Bank (FINRA)
• ARG Recovery - President, National Valuation and Restructuring firm
• Bozell Jacobs Kenyon & Eckherdt, Account Manager Advertising
• April-Marcus, Vice-President

Amit Arora

Managing Director - Industrial Restructuring