Banking Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in asset management. He earned his BS in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan before earning his MBA from Harvard University. He is licensed by the National Futures Association in national commodity futures and is a member of the National Futures Association Hearing Committee. Throughout his career, he has held multiple distinguished leadership roles. He was the vice president of investment banking for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, and the vice president of Commercial Union Capital Corporation. While working for ABN AMRO Bank N.V., he rose from the head of financial engineering to the role of president and CEO of ABN AMRO. He was a founder and managing partner of Mumford Capital Partners, an equity partner of 2100 Xenon Group, and a partner of Emerging Edge Group. Currently, this expert serves as the chief financial officer, chief compliance officer, and secretary to the board of a registered investment advisor based in Illinois.