Dean Lewallen

After commencing his career as a mental health worker and professional fundraiser, and a second career, post-graduate school, in tax-exempt/public finance as a key member of the portfolio management teams at leading investment, financial guaranty and financial advisory companies, Dean Lewallen now focuses on serving non-profit boards in a well as representing creditors overseeing restructured non-profit organizations and companies.

Currently, as a creditor appointed representative, he is President/CEO of German Pellets Texas, a bankrupt shell company in Texas currently in ‘wind-down’ mode. He was also appointed to the board of Goodwill of Southern Nevada as an official observer, subsequent to its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In a volunteer capacity, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Leopold Schepp Foundation in New York and was recently elected to the Board of Woodland Pond at New Paltz, a non-profit senior living community in the Hudson Valley. Up until his recent retirement, Mr. Lewallen was Senior Vice President and High-Yield Municipal Credit Analyst with AllianceBernstein, where he utilized his sophisticated analytical skills developed through the negotiation and structuring of new (as well as the restructuring of distressed) high-yield tax-exempt securities/private placements in a wide variety of credit sectors.  Prior to AB, he did much the same at Dreyfus/BNY Mellon, Prudential Financial, and MBIA.

Mr. Lewallen was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He earned his B.A. “With Distinction” in 1975 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a major in Psychology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi national honorary societies. After moving to New York State, he received his M.B.A. in Finance from Cornell University in 1981. Over the years, he gave numerous presentations at industry conferences and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 from Smith’s Research & Ratings Review, an industry publication.

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