Valuation Expert Witnesses

This expert is a real estate valuation consultant specializing in a variety of property types. Coupled with a background in accounting and auditing, he provides a unique and detailed approach to valuation. Services for a wide client base include appraisal and consulting services for financing purposes, eminent domain, litigation support, expert testimony, property tax appeal, market studies, and real and personal property assessment. This expert has given numerous presentations regarding valuation and appraisal standards issues and is an active member of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. This expert has owned and managed a major appraisal and valuation company since 2006

This qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in accounting, law, and finance. He received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. An active member of the American Society of Appraisers and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, he is certified in Financial Forensics and as a Public Accountant. His previous positions include Senior Consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP, Director of Valuation Services at Weiser Consulting Services LLC, and Director of Valuation Services at Mahoney Cohen & Company. He is currently President of a boutique appraisal and forensic valuation firm and Principal of a valuation and compliance consulting firm.

This highly qualified financial expert has 30+ years of professional experience at leading firms. Currently he is a Prinicipal at R. G. Quintero & Co. and a Managing Director at Chartered Capital Advisers. Previously he, was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., an insolvency and restructuring advisor at Zolfo, Cooper & Co, and also started and ran the first valuation practice of KPMG. This expert has performed 1000+ valuations of business, financial instruments, intangible assets, and other assets and liabilities and he has testified as an expert witness on more than 60 occasions in courts throughout the U.S. He is a member several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Turnaround Management Association, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. This expert has numerous certifications. He has ten professional licenses including CPA and CFA. He earned his MS in Accountancy and an APC in Investment Management at New York University.

This expert specializes in the raising and selling of koi fish. She is the owner of a Koi farm in the midwest and has held the title for almost 8 years. She earned her BA in Science Communications from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. She has been in the aquatic industry for many years, having served as the President/Owner of Skippers Choice Marine Supply and the VP Marketing and Sales of Lakeside Marina.

This koi valuation expert graduated from the College of Aquaculture at Alexandria Technical Institute. He trained in Niigata, Japan with a number of the top koi producing farms selecting koi to grow to a larger size and harvesting competition fish. He currently owns and operates 3 private koi farms in Florida. Over 20 years experience in wholesale and retail sales, design and build.

This expert has been providing forensic accounting, economic damages and business valuation services to attorneys and their clients for over 20 years. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed an M.B.A. in Accounting and Finance. Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified in Financial Forensics and Fraud Examination, he is an active member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the former of which he serves on the Economic Damages Task Force. He has provided accounting and consulting services to businesses ranging from start-up entities to Fortune 100 companies, specializing in forensic accounting. Currently, this expert is a Partner at a major accounting firm and practices in the firm's forensic, litigation, and valuation services group. He is a frequent speaker on topics related to economic damages and fraud, and his written work on topics relevant to economic damage analysis, fraud investigations, and business valuation has appeared in publications such as "FVS Consulting Digest" and "CPA Insider".

This financial expert has a plethora of certifications that enable him to perform a highly informed earnings trajectory analysis. In addition to an MBA, this expert is a certified business valuator, a certified valuation analyst, and a certified financial forensic examiner. In addition he is a member of several prestigious organizations including the American College of Forensic Examiners and the American Board of Forensic Accounting of which is he is a diplomate-a testament to his ability to perform the tasks necessary for this case.

This expert has been working in the field of economics for over 40 years. A member of the National Association of Forensic Economists as well as the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, he has authored over 40 technical reports and book chapters and is extensively published in journals such as the "Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis". His background spans academic, corporate, and government positions. He taught Economics at Pennsylvania State University and Hartford University prior to holding several management positions with Aetna Life & Casualty, Inc. He then served as the Managing Director of Management & Strategy Analysis, Inc., directing professional staff on economic consulting projects and providing expert witness services to law clients and strategy consulting services to corporate clients. He also worked as the Regional Commissioner of the San Francisco Region of the Bureau of Labor Statics, wherein he led a large staff of professional economists in collecting, analyzing, and distributing economic information in an eight state area. Currently, this expert is the Managing Principal of an economic and litigation support consultancy.

This station valuation and broadcast station economics expert has been working in the media and entertainment industry for over 40 years. He studied Radio and Television at Ithaca College prior to receiving his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from American University. He is a former Founding Partner of DES Associates, where he worked for nearly a decade providing appraisal and acquisition analysis to the broadcasting industry. During this time he concurrently served as an Associate Editor for Paul Kagan Association. He left DES to form ComCapital Group, an investment banking company that specialized in station acquisition financing, valuations, and related financial consulting. Currently, this expert is the President and Founding Partner of an investment banking company that provides appraisal services and specialized economic analysis for the TV and radio broadcasting industry. Over the course of his career, this expert has appraised over 4,000 broadcast TV and radio stations with aggregate values in excess of $50 billion. His scholarly articles on the topics of broadcast station valuation and finance have been featured in publications such as the "Journal of Broadcast Financial Management�, "Broadcasting", and "Broadcast Management & Engineering", while he has been recognized as a broadcast station valuation and economic expert by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications of the U.S. Congress. This expert has also been qualified as an expert in station valuation and broadcast station economics in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court and has prepared valuation and economic studies that were incorporated in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission.

This expert has multiple years of experience in litigation services, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, loan workouts and expert witness matters. He was the leader of his own consulting firm where he and his staff performed strategic financial analysis, provided valuation and re-financing advice to major corporations and provided business planning advice to start-up companies. While at the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, this expert performed investigative studies examining no load fees charged to retail mutual fund customers, conducted studies analyzing the trading patterns of market making firms for the SEC Division of Enforcement and analyzed the performance of Nasdaq - operated electronic trading systems vs. non-Nasdaq systems. He performed dozens of SFAS 141/142 valuations for several different clients as the Northeast regional director for a national valuation firm. This specializes in commercial damage calculations and business valuation for tax and litigation purposes. He is currently an Accounting Professor at a NJ University. He earned his MBA at Loyola University and PhD in Finance and Accounting at George Washington University.

This valuation expert currently runs a New York firm of appraisers that provide forensic valuations of residential belongings, office contents, and fine art. He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser designated by the American Society of Appraisers and has been appraising since 1984. The expert sits on the International Board of Governors of the ASA and is also a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He has taught appraisal research methods in various settings, including at New York University, and he is a frequent speaker at lectures and panels. The expert earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a Certificate in Appraisal Studies from New York University.

This expert has more than 25 years of real estate experience in domestic and international markets. She advises public and private companies, lenders, hedge funds and secured and unsecured creditors on complex real estate issues. Specific areas of professional expertise include dispute resolution, the valuation of loan and REIT portfolios, strategic planning for the acquisition and disposition of major real estate assets, the marketability and feasibility of large scale development and the allocation of purchase price resulting from corporate acquisitions and mergers. She also performs fair value analyses for loan portfolios in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards. She has advised clients on a variety of matters for the following property types: investment grade office complexes; regional shopping malls and power centers; corporate headquarters, distribution and manufacturing facilities for Fortune 500 companies; sports and entertainment complexes; hospitals, nursing homes and related health care facilities; medical and bio-technical research and laboratory complexes; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities; full service hotel and resort properties; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities. She serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and FINRA, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a global real estate professional organization. She also maintains the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). She has served on on the National Executive Committee of the Counselors of Real Estate and is on various professional boards including Adavanced Board of Real Estate Development (ABRED).

This highly qualified real estate appraiser has extensive experience in commercial and high value properties with an emphasis on litigation, diminution in value, eminent domain, taxation, partial interests, and zoning. He holds top real estate appraisal licenses in the state of New York and belongs to a number of prestigious professional associations in the field -- most notably as a member and former president of the Columbia Society of Real Estate Appraisers. He has also taught courses at NYU and Baruch College on real estate appraisal, valuation, and investment. Currently, this expert is a practicing general real estate appraiser and an appraisal instructor at a New York area real estate teaching institute.

This expert on Economic Damages has over 35+ years of experience in calculating damages and performing business valuations. He obtained his BA in Economics, his MBA in Accounting and Finance, and his JD from Tulane University. He is a certified CPA, Senior Appraiser, and Business Appraiser and certified in Financial Forensics and Business Valuation. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.. He has 5 Publications and is currently a Tax and Business Valuation Partner with Moss Adams LLP.

This expert has over 40 years full-time real estate appraising experience involving all types of properties. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker in KS and MO and a licensed Gneral Real Propert Appraiser in KS, MO, and CO. Additionally, he is an instructor for CLE appraisal and real estate classes in 7 states. He recently conducted a CLE course titled "Handling Eminent Domain Cases in Missouri and Kansas". He is currently the owner and principal appraiser at an appraisal consultancy based in Kansas City, MO.

This highly qualified expert has provided valuation and corporate finance consulting services since 1987. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and he is a member of several prestigious associations including the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Society of Appraisers. He previously worked as the Senior Managing Director of American Appraisal Associates Inc where he was the Chair of Healthcare Industry Practice. Currently, this expert works as Managing Director in a global consulting firm in Illinois. He specializes in the valuation of a wide variety of businesses and business interests, fairness and solvency opinions, consulting with corporations with respect to corporate finance issues, and estimating economic damages. He has provided opinions of value, fairness, and solvency for many purposes such as acquisitions, divestitures, business and strategic plan reviews, business unit performance measurement, SEC filings, US GAAP and other financial reporting requirements, US federal, state, and non-US tax reporting requirements, regulatory compliance, various dispute resolution and litigation procedures and general advisory purposes. This expert has worked with clients across a wide variety of industries such as business and consumer services, construction, engineering and real estate development, construction materials, banking, financial institutions and insurance, healthcare services and managed care.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the consumer, retailing, technology, and healthcare industries in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, the valuation of public and private companies, stock option valuations, severance package valuations, and C-suite compensation. He received his BA in economics and political science from Claremont McKenna College before earning his MBA from Harvard Business School. He also earned a certified director certification from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. This expert has formerly served as the vice president of investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette and Wertheim Schroeder & Co, as the CFO of Bodega Latina Corporation, DDD Group, and Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. While working with Hypertension Diagnostics, he also served as the chairman and CEO. He has also been a board member for several companies, including HDi Plastics, HitFix, and Specialty Commodities. Currently, this expert serves as a board member for a retail technology company in Texas and a privately-owned drug retailer in Washington state.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 15 years of experience in the financial services field, with his work involving financial planning, security valuation, portfolio management, insurance planning, and investment selection and transactions. He received his BS in psychology from the University of Michigan before earning his BBA from Michigan State University and recently went back to school to earn his MBA from the University of Michigan. He has formerly served as a financial advisor and the associate vice president of the KSG Group for Morgan Stanley before serving as the vice president for Fisher Investments. Currently, this expert is the owner of a small business consultancy in Michigan.

This highly qualified expert has been in the field finance and economics for over two decades, with demonstrated experience in valuation, assessment, discounted cash flow, economic and financial modeling, investment analysis, economic damage, earnings analysis, and risk assessment and analysis. He received his BA, in English literature and international relations from the University of California at Santa Barbara and then his PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota where he was both a MacArthur and Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of multiple papers and books, including “Inside the Global Economy: A Practical Guide”. He has worked in a variety of roles including as a consultant to both several countries, Alliance Equity Group LLC and Booz Allen Hamilton. He has also been the lead investor and CEO of Delta Welding and Fabrication. This expert currently runs a door and cabinet hardware design company he helped co-found and works with a private rare metals fabrication investor group in California, as well as serves as an instructor of global economics at a California university.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and corporate valuation, with additional specialization in energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors. After earning his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he went on to become an analyst in corporate finance at Wheat First Butcher Singer and then an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Rothschild Inc. Subsequently, this expert took on many leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions, including as vice president at Prudential Securities Inc., director at UBS Investment Bank, and managing director at RBC Capital Markets. He has also served as managing director of energy and natural resources at BNP Paribas and chief financial officer at ZaZa Energy Corporation. Currently, this expert is the founder and group head of an energy and infrastructure-focused banking firm based in New York and Texas.