Credit Expert Witnesses in West Virginia

This expert is a nationally recognized expert on banking and real estate finance, both residential and commercial. Having earned his BS in accounting and finance from Georgetown University, he served as a partner at KPMG for decades. He is a certified mortgage banker and public accountant with significant industry experience in real estate, consumer and commercial lending, fixed income markets, and securitization. Currently, he is the CEO of a real estate finance firm in Virginia.

This expert has 13 years career experience in the mortgage industry. He attended The University of Louisville College of Business majoring in Finance, with minors in Accounting & Economics. Then he went on to earn certifications as a Certified Residential Mortgage Specialist, Certified Mortgage Consultant, and Certified Distressed Property Lender. He is a member of professional organizations including the Kentucky Association of Mortgage Professionals and National Association of Mortgage Brokers. He is currently a branch partner at a privately owned mortgage company.

This expert is the President and CEO of a philanthropic trust, which she has transformed into one of the largest fundraising and grantmaking institutions in the U.S., raising more than $4 billion in contributions, making more than 90,000 grants to charities in 57 different countries, and crafting partnerships with some of the largest banking institutions in the world. She is a nationally recognized expert on charitable and planned giving having been interviewed about philanthropy and donor-advised funds on CNBC, PBS, NPR, CNN International and Bloomberg TV, and by nearly every national newspaper and major trade publication, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CBS MarketWatch, Financial Advisor, and Investment News. She has received numerous industry honors, most recently the Association of Fundraising Professionals' 2014 Outstanding Fundraising Professional.

This highly qualified banking supervisory expert is a former officer at the Federal Reserve Board, where he was responsible for regulatory policies and supervisory standards surrounding credit, market, liquidity and operational risk management at regulated institutions. The expert first joined the Federal Reserve in 1991 as a Supervisory Financial Analyst and became a Deputy Associate Director for the Board of Governors in 2004. He oversaw market and liquidity risk, as well as capital markets, and also handled operational risk policy in his last year with the Federal Reserve. Over the course of a 20-year career with the regulatory body, he established and managed regulatory and supervisory programs on the capital requirements and risk management of banking organizations' capital markets, trading and derivatives activities; treasury functions; interest rate, market risk, and liquidity exposures; and investment portfolio and asset/liability management practices. After leaving the Federal Reserve, the expert joined Ernst & Young LLP as an Executive Director of the Financial Services Risk Management Advisory Practice. He earned his Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Economics & International Relations from American University, his Masters of Arts & Sciences in Economics from Boston College, his Masters of Business Administration from George Washington University, and his Chartered Financial Analyst credential from CFA Institute.

This insurance expert works as an independent claims consultant and expert witness, primarily in the areas of bad faith claims litigation for both plaintiffs and insurance defense. She has over 20 years of experience in the property & casualty industry, handling all levels of claims, including large loss and complex claims, as well as bad faith litigation. The expert holds the CPCU, AIC-M, and SCLA designations and spent much of her career with State Auto Insurance, steadily moving up the ranks to Corporate Claim Manager and a member of the Core Management Team.

This expert has 13 years of experience in residential appraising in most MD counties. She is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser, working with both lenders and individual clients to provide prompt and accurate real estate valuations for the purpose of purchase, refinance, estate and financial planning, tax appeals and other purposes. Prior to her position as Lead Appraiser/ Owner of a real estate appraisal firm, she was Appraiser at RT Appraiser. She is also a licensed Realtor.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of finance, accounting, and business management. He received his BS in business administration from American University before earning his MBA in finance and marketing from Palm Beach Atlantic University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He then went on to earn his DBA in finance and management from Nova Southeastern University, graduating magna cum laude. This expert has over 25 years of applied experience in the field, serving as the vice president of investments at Dominick & Dominick, Ferris Baker Watts, and Wheat First Securities, as well as the vice president of commercial lending at Potomac Valley Bank and Millennium Bank. For 15 years, he has worked in an academic setting, helping to design and develop core finance curriculum for several universities. He has been a member of the adjunct finance faculty for Averett University, Keller School of Management, University of Maryland University College, and served as an assistant professor of finance, management, and business at Argosy University. Currently, this expert is an adjunct instructor of finance for an online MBA program, an adjunct instructor of finance, management and business for multiple universities, and an adjunct professor of finance at a Virginia university.

This highly-qualified business executive has almost 30 years of leadership experience in credit card product development and management, as well as marketing and finance. He earned his BS in finance and accounting from Boston University and his MBA with a focus on marketing and management from Iona College. Formerly, he held positions as a senior vice president of partnership marketing and product development at Bank of America Card Services, the vice president of cobranding business and product development at Alliance Data Retail Services, and the senior vice president and director of retail and commercial card services at Huntington Bank. He is currently the managing partner at a strategy and advisory firm located in New York City.

This well-credentialed expert has over 40 years of experience in the evaluation of credit risk and credit-related functions. He served 33 years as a bank regulator at the Comptroller of the Currency, as a contractor from 2013-2018, and a bank and credit union credit consultant. He has extensive experience in community banks and credit unions, mid-sized banks, and considerable experience in the largest banks in the country. Currently, he is a private bank and credit union consultant in Pennsylvania.