Gary Murphey

Gary M. Murphey is the Managing Director of Resurgence Financial Services, LLC ("RFS Limited"), an Atlanta-based advisory firm focused on turnaround management, financial restructuring, business valuation, transaction services, and financial due diligence for distressed companies. He has spent more than 25 years working on financial examinations, bankruptcies, and restructurings — principally for companies in financial distress or undergoing a purchase or sale transaction. His practice combines hands-on interim management (he will take an operating role inside a struggling company to restructure it toward profitability) with the monetization of that restored value through investment/sale transactions.

Murphey is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) — one of a relatively small number of CTP holders nationally — and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA). He serves as a Chapter 11 trustee on multiple cases in Tennessee and has provided expert-witness testimony in U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Courts in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Illinois. He studied at the University of Tennessee.

His engagement history ranges from high-profile national situations to locally owned family businesses, reflecting a career built around distressed-company operations, valuations, and court-supervised sales rather than early-stage venture financing.

• Operates in special situations / distressed assets, not conventional venture or seed investing.
• RFS's stated approach: "create value through operational improvements and monetize that value via investment transactions" for financially distressed companies — consolidating advisory roles to avoid costly delays from multiple advisers.
• Typical mandates: interim/crisis management, Chapter 11 restructuring, recapitalization, going-concern sales, and asset monetization.
• Says "yes" to situations where operational turnaround can restore enterprise value ahead of a sale or transaction, and where a single hands-on adviser can both fix operations and execute the deal.
• Check size / seed criteria: not publicly stated and not verifiable — treat any specific seed check-size figure as unconfirmed.