Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Expert Witnesses in Rhode Island

This C-level financial executive has 35+ years of experience in investment banking, capital markets, private equity, and business development. He is an expert in the global alternative investment industry with a BS from Boston University, an MBA from Stern at NYU, and the Level I CAIA certification. He is also a regular speaker on the international alternative investments conference circuit and has contributed to various industry publications. Most recently, the expert served as a Senior Advisor for Prospect Capital Management. He was previously the Managing Director and Global Head of Strategic Business Development at Alphabridge Capital Management and also served as a Senior Vice President with WR Group Holdings. He began his career in various I-banking and private equity positions, including roles with Merrill Lynch and National Westminster Bank.

This highly-qualified banking and finance expert has nearly 50 years of experience in the field. He earned his BA in economics from Pace University and completed graduate studies in finance at New York University. He currently holds a Series 65 registration and has previously held both Series 7 and 24 registrations. He is active in his field as a member of the executive advisory board for St. John's University's Department of Accounting and Taxation. For over 30 years, he worked at JP Morgan Chase in several roles. Most notably, he served as the head of market, credit, and operational risk for Chase asset management, the head of international funding for Chase's Manhattan Bank, and the managing director and head of fiduciary risk management. Throughout his career, he has gained experience in areas such as treasury management, financial markets, asset management, foreign exchange, derivatives, risk management, and fiduciary roles and responsibilities. Currently, this expert is the principal consultant for a risk management firm in Connecticut.

This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in the ATM industry and the case payments industry. He earned a degree from Emory University. He is an active member and consultant of the ATM Industry Association, which is a global trade association with more than 10,000 members in 70 countries. He currently serves on the ATMIA’s United States Board Steering Committee and is also an active member of the Independent ATM Deployer (IAD) committee. He has been invited to speak on numerous occasions and has briefed the US Secret Service and FBI on financial crimes. He is also well published by the American Bankers Association, American Banker, Payment Systems Worldwide, and the ATM Industry Association. This expert is the founder and CEO of his own cash payment and ATM industry consulting firm that has been in business since 2002 based in Massachusetts.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the area of domestic and offshore personal trusts. He received his BS in business administration from Northeastern University before earning his MS in management concentration from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT. This expert worked with Citigroup for nearly 30 years, serving in a variety of roles including lending officer, vice president of the institutional recovery management department, senior risk manager, chief fiduciary officer, and chief trust officer. At Citigroup, he had full fiduciary responsibility for Citigroup Trust, the successor organization to one of the country's oldest trust businesses, and he oversaw several thousand trusts. He worked with portfolio managers to monitor fixed income, equity, and alternative investment portfolios. He also headed the trust advisory committee, which approved all new businesses and all discretionary distributions. Currently, this expert is a personal trusts consultant.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of investment banking and leveraged finance, specializing in arranging debt financing primarily for leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, refinancings, recapitalizations and rescue financings. He earned his BS in computer science from Columbia University and his MBA in finance and international business from the University of Chicago, and holds FINRA Series 79, 82, and 63 licenses. He began his career as an associate in the asset-based finance group at Citicorp Securities. Since then, he he served as the managing director at Credit Suisse Securities, Carolina Financial Securities, and ASGARD Securities, where he was also the co-head of the advisory group. Currently, this expert is the managing partner of a middle market investment banking firm in New York.

This mortgage expert has 30+ years of lending experience, including management positions in residential and consumer lending, secondary marketing, loan servicing, compliance, and operations. He is an accomplished third-party underwriter and quality control reviewer of mortgage loans and operations for several classifications of mortgage lenders. He has been a national-level instructor for over 20 years and has taught hundreds of lenders, as well as taught examiners and regulators on the state and federal level for banks, credit unions, and mortgage bankers/brokers. He worked with the NMLS in designing the SAFE Act federal MLO exam and in reviewing and auditing SAFE Act licensing education programs. The expert is a past Director of the Community Lending Institute Education Department for the American Bankers Association and is also the past Board Director, Strategic Planning Committee Chair, and Education Committee Co-Chair for the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association. In addition, he is the author of an industry standard residential mortgage textbook that is used in several hundred U.S. colleges and universities. The expert current runs two small consulting practices that specialize in mortgage and consumer lending/compliance.

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).