Appraisal Expert Witnesses in Utah

This expert earned his BS in hotel administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and his MBA from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He began his career in hotel operations and hotel accounting for Westin Hotels and Resorts, before working at Amfac Hotels and Resorts as the director of management services. He also served as the director of real estate administration in the world headquarters of Hilton Hotels Corporation. This expert is a certified master hotel supplier and a member of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Currently, he is the president of a hospitality and hotel consulting firm based in Nevada, where he specializes in advising clients about hotel operations management, standards of care, feasibility, and real estate development.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of business valuation. He received his BA in economics from UC Berkeley and earned his MBA in finance at California State University. He is an accredited senior appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. This expert has completed thousands of business valuations for medical practices throughout his career. His former positions include senior financial analyst for Allstate Insurance, senior valuation analyst for Henry & Horne, chief financial officer for Ideal Transitions, and manager of practice planning and valuation for Mercer Transitions. Currently, this expert serves as the president for a medical merger and acquisition consulting company in Arizona.

This highly-qualified economics and finance expert has over 30 years of experience in his field and specializes in the topics of securities and class-action litigation, corporate finance and governance, and the valuation of public and private companies. He earned his MBA in finance and applied economics from the University of Rochester and his PhD in finance from the University of Washington. He is currently an executive board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors Colorado Chapter. He also stays active in his field as an author and presenter of his field and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Economist. Formerly, he has held positions as an associate professor of finance at the University of Utah, a visiting associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago, and a visiting professor of economics at Princeton University. He currently serves as a provost professor of finance at a large university in Colorado.

This highly-qualified expert in mortgage banking, seniors housing, agency and GSA programs, and limited partnership trading and valuation has over 30 years of diverse professional experience. After earning his BA from Georgetown University and his MBA from Yale University’s School of Public and Private Management, he went on to serve in numerous industry leadership roles. Among his former positions, he was a senior vice president at Bank of New York’s Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, the vice president of Republic Realty Mortgage Corporation, and the chief asset officer of Public Buildings Service, GSA. He was also the director of the Office of Residential Care Facilities for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and senior vice president at Walker & Dunlop. He is currently the principal of a finance and valuation services company based in Nevada, where he provides analysis related to complicated financial issues for a variety of clients.

This highly qualified expert is the owner of an independent commercial and investment real estate practice. His firm specializes in land acquisition for development and investment; retail, office and industrial site selection; tenant representation; and investment acquisition and counseling. This expert has extensive real estate ethics experience. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the President of the Nevada Real Estate Commission. Appointed by Nevada’s Governor, the five-member commission conducts disciplinary hearings, approves all real estate education courses, advises the Nevada Real Estate Division and adopts regulations governing the activities of Nevada’s approximately 25,000 real estate licensees. This expert also has significant national real estate experience. He served for 18 years as a member of the Board of Directors for the CCIM Institute, a 20,000-member organization which awards the Certified Commerical Investment Member designation. This expert has extensive expert witness and trial experience. He earned his BA at the University of Southern California.

This expert has over 25 years of experience, transitioning through the professional disciplines of accounting, tax, law and finance, including public accounting and private law practice, as well as legal and corporate finance executive positions with Oryx Energy (now Anadarko Petroleum), Verizon and GreenTech Petroleum. He leverages on multi-disciplinary skill-sets in overseeing capital structure, determining the optimum mix of debt, equity and internal financing, building complex economic & financial models, performing the budgeting and forecasting function, developing strategies to improve economic efficiencies on capital deployed, managing complex tax issues and litigation and understanding and resolving financial and accounting questions. He is highly experienced at preparing and communicating business plans and strategies and preparing professional finance packages for qualified projects. He has a heavy international background, including mergers and acquisitions, and all types of domestic and cross-border transactions, with countries such as Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, among many others. He has been published in multiple national journals such as Business Week and the Journal of Corporate Taxation. He has also successfully testified as a finance expert witness in major commercial litigation (involving hundreds of millions of dollars) in venues including state and county courts, U.S. Federal District Court and U.S. Tax Court. Given his diverse background and global experience, he offers a unique blend of business acumen and legal knowledge in negotiating complex transactions, working with integrated teams of professionals from tax, accounting, finance, legal, engineering, geology, and operations departments of companies.