Our Team
We are driven by a belief in work that truly matters. Behind every business solution that we offer are livelihoods, jobs and families. Every day, we are bound by the principle of adding value—from the individual client to the economy as a whole.

Meet Our People

Sally C. Barton
Director, Special Assets Solutions

Seth Berti
Senior Consultant

Nathan Blehar
Senior Strategist

Jeffrey Chaisson
Senior Case Manager

Kevin Chan
Senior Consultant

Ethan Conklin
Case Manager

Laurel Conklin
Case Manager

Liam Eagan
Staff Accountant

Zack Fahey
Business Strategist

Cindy Foster-Martin
Consultant

Kim Gleason
Case Manager

Rachel Hackett-Dickinson
General Manager

Paul Handlen
Consultant

Kimberly Merritt
Accounting Manager

Sean McCarthy
Alliances Business Development

Dillon Millaway
Operations Manager

Katie Musante
Finance Manager

Nikita Perez
Case Manager

Bryan Provost
Case Manager

Rabib Rafiq
Alliance Relationship Manager

Clara Shoemaker
Client Engagement Manager

Victoria Toner
Business Analyst

Chris Alkiewicz
Assessment Consultant

Jordan Battenfield
Assessment Consultant

Scotti Goss
Assessment Consultant

Walker Lee
Assessment Consultant

Tom Manning
Assessment Consultant

Lauren Morris
Assessment Consultant

Nicole Shonk
Assessment Consultant

Gerard Celmer
Chief Operating Officer, Rise Alliance Division

John Garcia
Chief Executive Officer, Rise Alliance Division

Michael Petrecca
Chief Revenue Officer, Rise Alliance Division

Brendan Quigley
Business Financial Consultant, Rise Alliance Division
Come Work With Us
View OpportunitiesSecond Wind Consultants is America’s fastest growing business consultancy. Over the past ten years, we have been driven by a mission to preserve and generate economic value, with a core specialization in debt elimination that creates efficiencies for both owners and creditors. Second Wind works with private equity groups, alternative lenders, M&A professionals and trusted advisors across the country to facilitate new transactional solutions unavailable anywhere else.
By providing management consulting solutions that are not based in hourly fees, and by offering reorganizations previously only available to the largest of distressed corporations, Second Wind Consultants makes real solutions available to every sized business—not just the few.