Lynn Tilton is a founder and member of Patriarch Partners LLC. Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust (LDMT). Preceding her tenure at LDMT, Ms. Tilton was the founding principal and Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc.

In 1989, Ms. Tilton worked as an asset manager for the Oppenheimer Horizon Fund at Oppenheimer & Co. In December, 1990, she joined Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. to head the effort in distressed debt research and direct certain proprietary investments. From 1993 to 1994, Ms. Tilton was a Managing Director and Head of Sales at M.J. Whitman, Inc. From 1994 through early-1998, she was a Managing Director, Principal and Partner at Amroc Investments, Inc.

Prior to 1989, Ms. Tilton worked in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co. and continued her career in corporate finance and merchant banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch. Ms. Tilton earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.