Valuation Expert Witnesses in Arizona

This well-credentialed expert specializes in damages analysis, financial economics, and valuations in complex commercial litigation. Experienced across a range of verticals, he has testified on numerous government matters, including the largest government contract dispute in history. He has also worked in many private litigation matters and has valued damages, intellectual property, and lost profits. The expert earned his BS from Georgetown University, as well as an MA and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He began his career as an Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is now a Principal for an economic consulting firm.

This well credentialed expert has more than three decades of experience in finance, economics, and statistics, with particular expertise in economic damages assessments, employment litigation, securities and business valuations. He earned his BS in Math and Economics from the University of Oregon, his MBA in Finance from University of California, Los Angeles, and his PhD in Financial Economics from University of California, Los Angeles. He also is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute. He is a past member of numerous national consulting practices, all of which focused on forensic economic matters. In addition, he was a lecturer in Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, as well as an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. The expert has authored numerous articles and reports in his field. He is currently a Partner at an Economic and Accounting Consulting Firm in California.

This expert is the founding principal of an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in the management, valuation, and monetization of IP. He is a certified licensing professional (CLP) with over a decade of expertise in intellectual property valuation, profit apportionment and expert witness damages testimony. Additionally, he specializes in analyses for copyright and trademark infringement, publicity rights, social media and Internet infringement, defamation, marketing strategy analyses and royalty rate determinations. He also provides valuations and monetization strategies for trademarks, publicity rights, domain names, Internet and social media assets, brand assets and copyrights for financial reporting, bankruptcy and transactional due diligence. He is a member of the International Trademark Association, the Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association, and the Section of the Intellectual Property Law of the American Bar Association.

This highly qualified expert has years of experience in financial forensics and fraud examination. He received his BA in political science from the University of California Riverside and his MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. He is certified as a valuation analyst and a fraud examiner. This expert has held several leadership positions in his field, including serving as a director for a top-25 national accounting and consulting firm and a principal in the litigation consulting and forensic accounting services practice group for one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the United States. He has served as an adjunct professor in economics, authored several published articles, and presented at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's Global Fraud Conference. Currently, this expert is a partner at a litigation consulting and financial forensics firm in California.

This highly qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in hospital administration and management, with his work focusing on hospital performance and quality assurance, hospital and clinic valuation, hospital accreditation, hospital planning and development, and hospital trusteeship. He received his BA in sociology and Spanish from Elmira College before earning his MA in healthcare administration from George Washington University. He also completed a senior executive program at the National Health Care Management Center through the University of Pennsylvania. This expert is active in his field as a member of the Palomar Health District and the Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Throughout his career, he has held a number of roles, most notably as the assistant director of hospital management at Saginaw General Hospital, chief operating officer of Saginaw Osteopathic Hospital, chief executive officer of Grand Traverse Regional Health Systems, and a partner at CyberMed International and Advanced Healthcare Systems. He also served as a professor at both Chapman University and National University, teaching courses in hospital administration and healthcare finance. Currently, this expert serves as a consultant for a healthcare appraisal company in California, as well as a hospital accreditation surveyor for a healthcare facility accreditation company.

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 been in the field finance and economics for over two decades, with demonstrated experience in valuation, assessment, discounted cash flow, economic and financial modeling, investment analysis, economic damage, earnings analysis, and risk assessment and analysis. He received his BA, in English literature and international relations from the University of California at Santa Barbara and then his PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota where he was both a MacArthur and Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of multiple papers and books, including “Inside the Global Economy: A Practical Guide”. He has worked in a variety of roles including as a consultant to both several countries, Alliance Equity Group LLC and Booz Allen Hamilton. He has also been the lead investor and CEO of Delta Welding and Fabrication. This expert currently runs a door and cabinet hardware design company he helped co-found and works with a private rare metals fabrication investor group in California, as well as serves as an instructor of global economics at a California university.

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 forensic accounting expert is a CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with 20 years of experience performing fraud investigations, economic damages and lost profits calculations, and business valuation. She earned her BS in commerce from the University of Virginia and is active in her field as a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She was previously honored by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts as among the “40 Under Forty” who have made extraordinary advances in their field. This expert is currently a CPA and certified fraud examiner at a financial analysis firm where she specializes in damages calculations, including lost profit analysis, valuation, forensic accounting, and royalty and distribution audits.

This expert specializes in gas station and convenience store operations, management, and safety, with specific focus on site valuations, operating procedures, capital and expense management. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from Drexel University. He has 37 years of experience in the downstream petroleum refining and marketing industry with ARCO and BP. As President of BP West Coast Products, LLC and Vice President Retail Operations, he had responsibility for ARCO gasoline retail sales and AMPM operations worldwide, consisting of the C-Store business with 700 franchisees, 3000 convenience stores, and $3 billion in revenue.

This highly qualified and experience gemologist is a Graduate Gemologist (GG) from the Gemological Institute of America and an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with the American Society Appraisers. He is one of the few Master Gemologist Appraisers in the U.S. He has served as an expert witness in many high profile cases and observes the Code of Ethics of the American Society of Appraisers and all documents and services offered are provided in conformity with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). This experts clients include major manufacturers, auction houses, retail stores, industry professionals, high profile and celebrity clients. He has been in practice for 16+ years.

This expert is a statistician experienced in data analysis and statistical methods to evaluate field performance of vehicles and consumer products. Her key areas of expertise include; statistical analysis using field data; consumer complaint data analysis; warranty data analysis; claims data analysis; customer contact data analysis; economic valuation; damage assessment; econometric/financial modeling; analyses of large complex data sets; regression analysis and ANOVA; reliability analysis, and more. This expert has been involved in several studies using warranty/customer contact or claims data to predict the number of claims/failures and annual claim/failure rates for various consumer and industrial products.

This station valuation and broadcast station economics expert has been working in the media and entertainment industry for over 40 years. He studied Radio and Television at Ithaca College prior to receiving his M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from American University. He is a former Founding Partner of DES Associates, where he worked for nearly a decade providing appraisal and acquisition analysis to the broadcasting industry. During this time he concurrently served as an Associate Editor for Paul Kagan Association. He left DES to form ComCapital Group, an investment banking company that specialized in station acquisition financing, valuations, and related financial consulting. Currently, this expert is the President and Founding Partner of an investment banking company that provides appraisal services and specialized economic analysis for the TV and radio broadcasting industry. Over the course of his career, this expert has appraised over 4,000 broadcast TV and radio stations with aggregate values in excess of $50 billion. His scholarly articles on the topics of broadcast station valuation and finance have been featured in publications such as the "Journal of Broadcast Financial Management�, "Broadcasting", and "Broadcast Management & Engineering", while he has been recognized as a broadcast station valuation and economic expert by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications of the U.S. Congress. This expert has also been qualified as an expert in station valuation and broadcast station economics in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court and has prepared valuation and economic studies that were incorporated in proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission.

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.

This expert currently works at an intellectual asset consulting firm specializing in trademark, patent and copyright licensing, valuations, and expert testimony. He has worked on branding infringement and Right of Publicity cases for celebrities. Additionally, he has published multiple articles on publicity, rights of publicity, and valuation of clients.

This expert has more than a quarter century of experience developing financial and economic analyses to solve business problems. His practice principally involves intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret as well as unfair competition antitrust matters and business valuations, breach of contract disputes, and technology assessment. acquisitions analysis, has enabled him to assist clients on a wide range of litigation issues. His industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, industrial products, machinery, automotive aftermarket, electronic components, telecommunications, airlines, computer hardware, software, and media and entertainment. He has testified in state court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, he served in senior corporate positions in business planning, acquisitions, and product development. He was the president of a technology marketing and licensing company; served as an economist at the Department of the Treasury, where his responsibilities included corporate fraud, technology licensing and transfer pricing; and was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a BS in engineering and an MA and a PhD in economics, all from Duke University.

This expert is a CPA with over 30 years experience in forensic accounting and economics. He regularly serves as an expert witness to present economic damage calculations or other matters involving accounting, finance or business valuation. He is currently the principle founder of a financial and economics consulting firm.