Securities Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified financial services technology expert has over 35 years of professional experience. His expertise includes systems development, integration, infrastructure, information security and operations in the trading, investment, banking, and asset management businesses. He earned his BS in computer science from the City University of New York and is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University. He holds certifications as an information systems security professional and is a member of prestigious organizations such as the Hedge Fund Technology Group and the Project Management Institute. He has spoken at various financial IT conferences on key and emerging technologies, services, and issues with those in attendance. For the past 10 years, he has served as a board member of Wall Street Technology Association and currently is a special advisor. Formerly, he has served as the chief information officer at Caxton Associates LLC, and the chief technology officer at Harvard Management Co. and Annaly Capital Management. Currently, this expert is the chief information officer at a NY-based IT advisory and consulting firm.

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 25 years of experience in the field of finance and securities. He received his BA in economics and philosophy from Elon College before earning his MA in economics from the New School for Social Research, where he also completed PhD-level coursework. This expert is a FINRA/Wharton certified regulatory and compliance professional and FINRA arbitrator, and holds a Series 65 securities license. He is active in his field as a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. He has formerly as an administrative assistant, financial consultant, and vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co., as well as the managing member of both Duval Asset Management and Heterodox Capital Partners. Currently, this expert is the CEO and CIO of an investment advisory firm in New York, as well as the managing partner of a securities litigation consultancy.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of risk management and insurance and asset management. He earned his BA in the history of science and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the Professional Risk Managers International Association, the Buy Side Risk Managers Group, the Investment Company Institute, and the Boston Security Analysts Society. In addition, this expert is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with over 10 publications. He formerly held many roles including portfolio manager of derivates & mortgage-backed securities at Allstate Life Insurance, head of derivative strategy and head of alternative investments at Putnam Investments, and board member of TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Company. This expert is currently a risk manager at a federal reserve bank in Massachusetts.

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.

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 specializes in the field of mergers and acquisitions. He earned his BS from Colgate University, his JD from Cornell Law School, and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He began his career as an attorney practicing mergers and acquisitions law in New York with White & Case. He then went on to begin his investment banking career, where he was involved in over 60 mergers or acquisitions with a combined market value of over $1 billion. He then became president of a nationally recognized middle market mergers & acquisitions firm with 14 offices around the country. After almost seven years growing that company, he left to co-found an M&A firm that was quickly recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the Top Investment Banking firms in Chicago. He is currently a founder and partner of a national mergers and acquisitions firm and the founder and partner of an advisory that focuses exclusively on companies in the sports, fitness and leisure industry. He is also the co-founder of an exit planning institute, a leading provider of education, training and resources for business advisors committed to the field of exit planning.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field, primarily focusing on the regulation of reinsurance, as well as traditional, financial, capital market and administrative reinsurance. He is a licensed reinsurance intermediary and an ARIAS-US certified arbitrator, and is active in his field as a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and as a member of several organizations including the American Academy of Actuaries and the Actuarial Standards Board. Prior to his position as president of a consulting firm, he served as the vice president of reinsurance at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the managing director of Lehman Brothers Holdings, and the vice president of client solutions at General Re Life Corporation.

This highly-qualified securities expert has over 30 years of experience in equity securities and trading. He earned his BA from Saint Lawrence University and holds the Series 7, 9, 10, 24, 55, 63, & 99 licenses. He has held a number of distinguished roles, including the head of global equity sales at ABN AMRO, the CEO and COO of Harborside Securities, and the head of equities at Fidelity Capital Market Services. He has supervised and managed large and diverse sales and trading operations, and has a deep understanding of market structure, electronic trading, and alternative trading systems. Prior to his current position as the managing partner of a securities consulting firm, this expert served as both the chief operating officer and the chief compliance officer for Open Door Securities.

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 expert has over 15 years of experience in financial services, consulting with Financial Advisors, Registered Investment Advisors, and Broker-Dealers.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in the securities industry as an accounting and compliance specialist. Industry experience with broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, hedge funds,regulation, compliance, accounting, and information technology. He has been FINRA registered since 1984 and is also a licensed Financial and Operations Principal. He currently serves as Principal for a financial compliance services firm.

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 expert has over 40 years of experience in every area of investment banking, including Mergers and Acquisitions (including LBOS and recapitalizations), Fairness Opinions, Adequacy Opinions, Solvency Opinions, Valuations, Damage Issues, Fiduciary Issues, Advice to Special Committees of Boards and Trustees, Due Diligence and Disclosure Issues, Financing of debt and equity both public and private, Leasing and Real Estate Financing, and many other areas. He graduated with honors in economics from Princeton University, followed by graduating at the top of his class in the MBA program at New York University (NYU) Business School. Until 1990, this expert served as an investment banker at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., one of the most prominent American investment banks of the twentieth Century. Joining the firm as an associate, he became a Vice-President, then Senior Vice-President, and was elected Managing Director in 1982. In November 1990, he resigned from Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. to pursue a new business opportunity. From October 1993 through February 1995, he served as President and CEO of Gulf USA Corporation, shepherding it through a reorganization process, and as a Director of Gulf Resources Pacific in New Zealand, a 90% owned subsidiary and one of the largest commercial real estate companies in New Zealand. He also served as an advisor to certain corporate finance departments of medium-size investment banks, including Gruntal Capital Markets. In addition, he served on certain boards of directors. This expert is currently a Senior Director at a boutique investment bank with both U.S. and foreign clients.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This expert has over 30 years of experiences with securities, investments, and insurance at the financial advisor, supervisory, and managing principal level. He has his producer's license in life, accident, and health insurance, is a certified financial planner, a chartered financial consultant, and a chartered life underwriter. He is also a member of numerous prestigious organizations in the insurance and financial services fields. This expert is is a former agency manager at John Hancock Financial Services, former managing principal at Waddell and Reed and a former Adjunct Professor in the department of finance at the University of Connecticut. He is currently an adjunct professor in financial management at a top university and the founder/consultant at a securities, insurance, and financial services expert witness and litigation consulting firm.

This expert has more than 20 years of experience as a retail executive (Senior VP, Executive VP, Merchandise VP, and President) with Macy's, Bloomingdales, the U.S. division of a major dutch retailer Steinbach, and more. He has also spent 18 years as a financial advisor, equity analyst, and investment banker. He earned a BS in Retail Management/Marketing from Drexel University and has authored multiple publications in the retail finance space.

This highly qualified expert is a licensed FINRA arbitrator with years of experience in trusts, treasuries and financial planning. He received his BS degree from Florida Southern College and completed his training in securities at FINRA, Wharton and the New York Institute of Finance. He is a former branch manager at Merrill Lynch and the former manager of the New York City District Professional Resource Center, which is comprised of over 40 specialists serving 700+ brokers and clients. He has reviewed 1000+ daily trade blotters and has been involved in dozens of employment situations.

This highly qualified expert has 25+ years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry developing and implementing tactics and strategies to optimize utilization of assets and maximize ROI. He has four years of consulting experience in E&P, with an emphasis on Natural Gas drilling costs and Enhanced Oil recovery and insights in Upstream oil trends. His has also experience on Wall Street with a boutique brokerage firm with exposure to securities, fixed income and alternative investment markets such as Master Limited Partnerships, REITs and Derivatives. He has extensive experience in Crude Oil, Refined products and Natural Gas value chains, pricing, risk mitigation, trading and economics. His technical skills lie in feed-stock selection, refinery production optimization, oil trading, pipeline scheduling and downstream asset management. His core business skills are honed in client relationships, business development, proposal writing and contract negotiations.