John M. Collard, Chairman of Strategic Management Partners, Inc., an Annapolis-based Maryland Chamber member company, was recently inducted into the Turnaround Management, Restructuring, Distressed Investing Industry Hall of Fame.
The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) established the Hall of Fame to to honor and preserve the names of those whose outstanding individual contributions have made a lasting positive impact on an industry dedicated to stabilizing underperforming companies, rebuilding corporate value, and retaining jobs.
“We are extremely honored and proud to receive this prestigious recognition,” said Collard, a past TMA Chairman. “It is an honor to play an active role in TMA’s leadership, influence growth, and support the corporate renewal profession and the Certified Turnaround Professional Program. We are very proud of TMA’s accomplishments, and that we could be a catalyst to change.”
Strategic Management Partners, Inc. is a nationally recognized turnaround management, corporate renewal governance, equity capital investing and advisory firm. Helping clients recover assets, restore value to troubled portfolio companies, prepare entities for ‘cash out’ at maximum value, interim CEO executive leadership, support litigation, and invest private equity in underperforming distressed troubled opportunities. The Maryland Chamber named Strategic Management Partners its 2007 Small Business of the Year in the one to five employee category.

