Valuation Expert Witnesses in Missouri

This highly qualified expert has provided valuation and corporate finance consulting services since 1987. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and he is a member of several prestigious associations including the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Society of Appraisers. He previously worked as the Senior Managing Director of American Appraisal Associates Inc where he was the Chair of Healthcare Industry Practice. Currently, this expert works as Managing Director in a global consulting firm in Illinois. He specializes in the valuation of a wide variety of businesses and business interests, fairness and solvency opinions, consulting with corporations with respect to corporate finance issues, and estimating economic damages. He has provided opinions of value, fairness, and solvency for many purposes such as acquisitions, divestitures, business and strategic plan reviews, business unit performance measurement, SEC filings, US GAAP and other financial reporting requirements, US federal, state, and non-US tax reporting requirements, regulatory compliance, various dispute resolution and litigation procedures and general advisory purposes. This expert has worked with clients across a wide variety of industries such as business and consumer services, construction, engineering and real estate development, construction materials, banking, financial institutions and insurance, healthcare services and managed care.

This expert is a pilot, aircraft mechanic, inspector, and flight instructor with over 30 years of aviation technology experience. He holds a number of pilot, mechanic, and appraisal certifications. In his current aircraft inspection firm, he frequently performs Aircraft maintenance and conformity inspections, USPAP compliant aircraft appraisals, maintenance verification and conformity test flights, and digital data mining for engines and airframes. He also does appraisals for aircrafts.

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in diminished value and the post-repair inspection of vehicles. He ensures vehicles are restored to their pre-accident condition in terms of fitness and functionality, and he specializes in determining the loss of value to properly and improperly repaired vehicles. He obtained his BA in management from Oklahoma State University, before receiving his MBA from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Today, this expert holds an I-Car Platinum Certification, and he's a certified IACP damage appraiser. He previously served as a damage analyst and repair blueprinter at the Marc Miller Collision Center. He is currently an independent appraiser and estimator for three law firms, an independent inspector at a motor vehicle performance network, an independent appraiser and consultant at a high-line collision repair center, and the owner and an inspector at a post-collision autobody repair and inspection company in Oklahoma.

This highly-qualified aircraft valuations expert has 40 years of experience in the aviation industry. He earned his BA in aviation management from Southern Illinois University and holds certifications as a senior aircraft appraiser, an airframe and power plant mechanic, an FAA authorized inspector, and aircraft buyer's agent. He is active in his field as a member of the EAA. This expert began his career in aviation as a member of the aircraft maintenance crew in the United States Air Force. He then served as an aircraft mechanic at Crystal Lake Airport, avionics installation and package engineer at Hartzog Aviation before starting his tenure with American Airlines. He worked for American Airlines for 32 years in a variety of roles, including line maintenance mechanic, senior instructor in aircraft maintenance, aircraft maintenance production supervisor, and the aircraft maintenance production and shift manager. Currently, he is the president and owner of an aircraft maintenance and appraisal corporation based in Illinois.

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.

This expert's career in the aviation industry spans 37 years and has included work in turbine power plant, aircraft overhaul and component repair and overhaul. He has performed risk assessment for the insurance industry and both corporate and business aircraft owners have utilized his talents. He has received many awards from the Federal Aviation Administration while maintaining a staff position with the Transportation Safety Institute. He is a graduate of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelor of Professional Aeronautics. Additionally he is a current member in good standing with the NAAA and holds the title of Senior Certified Aircraft Appraiser (NSCA) endorsed by the USPAP. He is certified by the National Aircraft Appraisers Association for aircraft appraisals. Currently, this expert is the President of one of the world's top aviation appraisal consulting firms.