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Edward P. Bond has been a significant part of Bederson’s history and success for more than 40 years, having served as Managing Partner, Chairman and Senior Partner. Ed oversees a department which specializes in bankruptcy and forensic accounting and has been personally involved with hundreds of bankruptcy cases during his tenure.
Ed has maintained a leadership position in the financial and business community for more than 45 years, including serving two years as President of the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy. He was also Partner and later President of a member brokerage firm of the New York and American Stock Exchange where he set up and established the clearing operation and back office facility converting from a manual system to automation. Ed also supervised the transfer of more than 10,000 retail accounts to a major clearing brokerage firm when it was determined that the economics involved favored going from clearing to non-clearing. He was elected as the sole public member of the Nominating Committee of the American Stock Exchange Board of Governors.
Ed is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Association of Insolvency Accountants, and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. He is dually licensed as a Certified Insolvency and Reorganization Accountant (CIRA) by the Association of Insolvency Accountants and as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) by the National Association of Fraud Examiners.
As a recognized expert in the field of bankruptcy, Ed has been a featured seminar speaker for many organizations including the New Jersey Panel of Bankruptcy Trustees and the New Jersey Institute for continuing Legal Education. His article titled “Anatomy of a Successful Turnaround in Chapter 11″ was published by Turnarounds & Workouts Magazine. Ed participated as an Expert Witness in a Moot Court proceeding for law students at Seton Hall University, and also made a presentation on Forensic Accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He served on a committee with Judge Moore and then Assistant U.S. Trustee Novalyn Winfield to evaluate the Role of Examiner in the District. Ed has testified as an Expert Witness numerous times and served as an examiner appointed by the office of the U.S. Trustee. He has also acted as Trustee for numerous matters including the successful Chapter 11 reorganization of Dr. Madis Laboratories (100% cash plus interest to all creditors – secured and unsecured). He is a court appointed mediator, a responsible person, a receiver, an umpire, a fiscal agent and an arbitrator and has acted (along with Bederson) as the bankruptcy and financial consultant to the Futures Representatives in the Asbestos Bankruptcies of G-1 Holdings, Federal-Mogul, NARCO, A.P. Green (Global Industrial Technologies, Inc.), and AcandS. Ed is also involved with the State Insulation matter.
Named “Outstanding Young Man of America”, Ed served as Trustee for the PAL Boys’ Club. He served as Treasurer, Vice President and Member of the Board of the Valerie Fund, President of the Newark Jaycees and Treasurer of the State of New Jersey Jaycees. At the request of President Richard Nixon, he served as the State Citizens’ Chairman of the Small Business Administration (SBA). He is a former President of Executive Exchange and served as Treasurer of the Ruth Bass Foundation. He is past President of the Garden State Cancer Center Foundation, past Board Member and Chairman of the Audit Committee for “The Scholarship Fund For Inner City Children.”
Ed served on the Daughters of Israel Board of Directors. He is a current Essex County Board Member of Team Capital Bank, an Executive Committee Member, Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors of East Orange General Hospital. He is also a Member of the Maplewood Country Club Board of Directors. A member of the Dean’s list, Ed attended New York University, the New York School of Finance and received a B.S. Degree in accounting from Seton Hall University.
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