Auditing Expert Witnesses in Connecticut

This expert currently serves as Owner and Founder of a hedge fund advisory firm that provides various services including due diligence evaluation, accounting, and compliance consulting. He previously worked in various positions as an accountant, a capital markets consultant, CFO, and Managing Director for a hedge fund consulting group. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst with a degree in Accounting from Hofstra University.

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 highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of forensic accounting and fraud forensics, with an extensive background in fraud engagements, shareholder and partnership disputes, and other areas of investigative accounting. He earned his BS in accounting from Rutgers University and certified as a public accountant, valuation analyst, global management accountant, and fraud examiner. This expert is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the USA 500 Club. He has formerly served the managing director for multiple firms and as a professor of accounting at the graduate level. Currently, this expert serves as the partner-in-charge of the New York region at a public accounting and advisory services firm in New York.

This expert spent 37 years in federal human resources and resources management. His career includes many years with the US Department of Labor in Boston, the Defense Contract Audit Agency, and the Interstate Commerce Commission. One of his main focuses was in employee and labor relations. He has acted as advocate before arbitrators on a wide variety of grievances, including removal, and he served as management's senior representative before the Federal Labor Relations Authority on unfair labor practice allegations. Currently he is an adjunct instructor for a Graduate School in the Washington, DC area, teaching a wide variety of federal HR courses to include, FLSA, FMLA, Employee Relations, Labor Relations, Pay Setting, Suitability Adjudication, and HR for New Supervisors and Managers.

This expert has extensive experience in residential operations for correctional and treatment settings. He entered the field in the late 1970s, serving as the Director of Juvenile Services for Massachusetts Halfway Houses. More recently, the expert was the Director of Quality Assurance for the Department of Juvenile Services in Baltimore and the Quality Assurance Manager with Spectrum Health Systems Inc. He has dealt with operations in prison, substance abuse treatment, and mental health facilities. The expert is a member of the American Correctional Association and a certified PREA Auditor by the Department of Justice. He is currently a consultant with a healthcare firm, where he focuses on operational deficiencies in residential facilities.

This qualified expert of Premium Audits obtained her AA in Paralegal Studies from the University of LaVerne. She is a member of the Premium Audit Review Consultants Group and the Risk Management Society. She is currently a Premium Auditor at a private consulting firm.

Education: AB, Economics, Lafayette College; M.S., Accountancy, NYU Stern; A.P.C., Investment Management, NYU Stern Professional certifications: CPA; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); AICPA-Accredited, Business Valuation (ABV); AICPA-Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF); Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE): Certified Management Accountant (CMA); Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA); Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP); Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV); Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Member: AICPA; CFA Institute; CFA Society New York; Turnaround Management Association (former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee); American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts; + others Delivered lectures and seminars to financial and business professionals in more than 60 cities throughout the U.S. and more than 20 countries on five continents outside the U.S.

This certified cyber security expert has over 25 years' experience in the global digital technology industry having spent the early years of her career as a software developer before working as a management consultant. She earned her post graduate diploma in e-commerce, economics, and technology at the University of London and a graduate diploma in law at University of Westminster. She has been a registered Information security auditor with International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA) since 2013 and has been a member of ISACA since 2010. Her experience and specialism cover risk management, information privacy, IT governance, IT auditing, IT assurance, online fraud, mobile value-added products, digital & cryptocurrency and IT contractual dispute management, software development and IT/network technology. This expert has practical experience of civil procedural rules and evidential matters.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in maritime safety. He earned his BS in nautical science at the maine maritime academy, and has completed a number of advanced maritime safety training courses. He holds several licenses and certifications, including one as a Management and Vessel Responsible Carrier Program Auditor. He previously spent over 20 years as a master aboard numerous ocean vessels working worldwide, and then served as the principle surveyor at PRO-MAR, Inc. For the last ten years he has owned a RI marine safety consultancy.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 20 years of experience as a forensic accountant and auditor, with extensive experience in information technology, information systems, fraud, and damages. He received his BS in computer science from New York University before earning his MS in accounting from Pace University. This expert is certified as a public accountant, an information technology professional, an information systems manager, and a fraud examiner. He is active in his field as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Information System Audit & Control Association. He has previously been a partner at several accounting firms, such as Nasberg PLLC and Grassi & Co. CPAs. Currently, this expert is a partner at a valuation firm in New York, a consultant for an accounting and business consulting firm, and an adjunct professor at a New York university.

This expert is a building and construction professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in the construction and building inspection industries. He has testified in numerous trials and depositions for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. He has been qualified as an expert in construction and personal injury cases in courtrooms from New York City to Connecticut to Boston and has authored and presented numerous Continuing Legal Education courses, coast to coast. This expert has been specifically trained in residential and commercial building codes, construction site safety, residential and commercial building envelopes, slip, trip and fall accidents and building inspections. His decades of practical experience provides him with the unique ability to translate written code words into three-dimensional, real world interpretations making him extremely valuable as a forensic expert. Since the late 1970’s, This expert has been involved in the residential and commercial construction and building inspection industries. He also has extensive experience in prefabricated buildings and ran separate building manufacturing, roofing and drywall companies as subsidiaries of his construction company. Using the partnership and knowledge of his father, combined with his natural instincts and abilities as a building professional, he has worked side by side with his dad in the family building inspection and construction businesses since the late 1970’s. As this expert says, “you cannot learn in college what you can learn from your father”. With that as his mantra, he is a firm believer that there is no better educational resource than hands-on experience. In 2014 this expert was hired as the lead expert by one of New York City’s most prominent personal injury law firms to act as the plaintiff’s safety expert in a construction accident case that returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $62 million, the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in the history of Queens, New York.

This expert is a recognized authority and consultant in the hotel industry. He operates his hotel, hospitality and consulting practice specializing in operational audits and the effectiveness of hotel franchising agreements and litigation support assignments. Prior to forming his hotel consulting firm, this expert was the Product Line Manager for Hotel/Motel Operations at the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. overseeing the Sheraton Corporation of America. His previous experience includes working as the General Manager of the Summit Hotel (762 Rooms), General Manager of the Drake Hotel (680 Rooms) and Resident Manager of the Americana Hotel (1842 Rooms), all in New York City. He serves on the Board of Advisors and lectures at the NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management. He is a member of the prestigious International Society of Hospitality Consultants and is certified as a Master Hotel Supplier by the Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. He served for eleven years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City Club of New York. He is one of the most widely published authors in the hospitality field. His insightful articles on various hotel subjects have been published in the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Lodging Hospitality, Hotel & Motel Management, AAHOA Lodging Business, and posted on the Hotel Interactive and Hotel Online websites.