Ms. Gardner co-founded Avenue Capital Group in 1995 and is the Partner in charge of managing the firm globally. Distressed investing has been the focus of her professional career for over 37 years. She also co-founded Amroc Investments, LLC (“Amroc”) where she was Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for investing the partners’ capital, and was active in the review and trading of the debt of hundreds of bankruptcies. Prior to forming Amroc as an independent entity, Ms. Gardner was General Counsel and Senior Managing Director of Amroc Investments, L.P., an investment fund affiliated with the Robert M. Bass Group. She began her career in 1987 at Cowen & Company in the Bankruptcy and Cor