Venture Capital Expert Witnesses

This expert has almost 15 years of experience in the financial services industry with a focus on direct investment and operational due diligence of alternative investments. She received her B.S. in Finance and Accounting. Her focus involves an in-depth inspection of hedge funds and their operations including hedge fund administrators. At PNC Asset Management, she served on the national due diligence unit and was responsible for the selection and monitoring of hedge, fund of hedge fund, and liquid alternative investments in the U.S. and Asia. She currently serves as Managing Director of an alternative investment consulting firm that, among other tasks, focuses on thorough investment and operational due diligence and risk assessment.

This highly qualified expert is the owner of an independent commercial and investment real estate practice. His firm specializes in land acquisition for development and investment; retail, office and industrial site selection; tenant representation; and investment acquisition and counseling. This expert has extensive real estate ethics experience. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the President of the Nevada Real Estate Commission. Appointed by Nevada’s Governor, the five-member commission conducts disciplinary hearings, approves all real estate education courses, advises the Nevada Real Estate Division and adopts regulations governing the activities of Nevada’s approximately 25,000 real estate licensees. This expert also has significant national real estate experience. He served for 18 years as a member of the Board of Directors for the CCIM Institute, a 20,000-member organization which awards the Certified Commerical Investment Member designation. This expert has extensive expert witness and trial experience. He earned his BA at the University of Southern California.

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 highly qualified expert is Chief Investment Officer and founder of a corporation specializing in capital management. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm's investment process and is focused on the strategic direction as well. Recognized for his expertise, he is frequently asked to speak on topics such as investment policy, portfolio management, and the risk characteristics of Real Asset investing. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg's Market Sense program and Money Moves with Deirdre Bolton. This expert has published widely on international economic and finance topics and is author of a Handbook for Infrastructure Investing, which is recommended by the CFA Institute and is a best seller. He is a professor at a business school University teaching Real Asset Investing, and remains one of the world's most provocative and respected financial analysts. His funds and separate account strategies have won numerous awards for performance in the real assets category. His current research focuses on empirical issues in investment management and corporate governance. His academic work has been published in top academic journals such as the CFA Institute, EDHEC Risk Institute and leading think tanks like the Inter American Dialogue. His research has been published by some of the leading industry trade journals including Institutional Investor Journal, Investments and Pensions Europe, Infrastructure Journal, Pensions and Investments Publications, and Investment Management Consultants Association. His research has also been covered in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Financial Times and The Globe and Mail. Private Asset Management Magazine named Capital Innovations as one of the Best Money Managers for Long-Term Performance." He has extensive experience with managing the economics of MLPs, having devoted 58% of his portfolio to this segmented industry.

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 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 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 expert is a highly qualified and multi-faceted business professional and educated. He is a top-ranked, tenured professor at one of the nation's top universities, and a successful real estate developer/investor. Widely quoted, he has appeared on BBC World News, Bloomberg, CNN, FOX News, NBC's The Today Show, NPR, and all major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times. A highly sought-after speaker, he regularly presents to leading business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Currently, this expert is the principal of a real estate investment firm, principal of a litigation support/expert testimony firm, and a lecturer in real estate, finance and law at a top university business/law school.

This experienced finance professional has background in portfolio and trust management, mutual funds, and hedge funds over a 45-year career. He earned his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. in Finance from Harvard University. He holds several industry credentials; the expert is a Registered Investment Advisor, a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a FINRA Arbitrator. The expert began his career at J.P. Morgan before joining Citibank, where he eventually served as the Chief Investment Officer of the Global Private Bank overseeing a total of $20 billion in assets. In addition, he spent 11 years as the Chief Investment Officer of IBJ Schroder Bank and Trust, supervising 20 investment professionals serving private clients in the U.S. and Asia. The expert now supports attorneys, individuals, banks, investment advisors, broker-dealers, corporations, and the SEC in investment matters.

This expert is an investment professional with over 25 years of experience in the securities industry, including investment management responsibility, broker-dealer management, due diligence oversight for sophisticated products, financial analysis, and high net worth sales expertise. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he has worked in the financial services and investment advisory business for over twenty years. Beginning his professional career in 1984 as an Analyst with First Chicago, he was also associated with Wellington Management in Boston, where he served as a Vice President and worked in pension fund asset management. He has also worked as a private banker at Fleet Private Clients Group, where he assisted high net worth clients establish customized investment portfolios. In addition, this expert worked for over ten years as an executive at Chubb Securities and Chubb Life Insurance Company, where he managed institutional accounts and oversaw the direct investment in venture capital, real estate, and bonds and equities. Currently, this expert is the owner of a registered investment advisory firm, specializing in customized portfolio management for individuals and companies.

This expert is a senior-level investment manager with extensive experience in long/short equity investing. He is an expert in hedge fund strategies, securities selection, portfolio management and other investment-related issues. He has provided consulting, investment research and expert witness services to investment funds and law firms since 2004. He earned his masters in business administration from Harvard Business School and is currently a Senior Investment Consultant at a private financial investment consultancy.

This economics Ph.D. has a broad financial background spanning mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and structured products. After earning his master's and doctorate from the University of Florida, he became a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. The expert eventually began a successful career in finance and served in several senior positions, including as global head of MBS research at two major investment banks, CS First Boston and UBS. He also worked in two senior trading roles focused on whole loans and securities, managing portfolios upwards of $90 billion in those positions. More recently, he was the Product Manager for an MBS and ABS valuation and risk analytics consulting firm. The expert recently started his own business as an independent consultant. In this capacity he has served as an expert witness in cases involving FINRA, the SEC, and the U.S. District Court.

This expert has about 10 years experience in property management. He has vast experience as a property portfolio manager where he was responsible for asset management, building code compliance, and real estate/insurance appraisal. He is currently the Director of Community Association Management for the Pacific Northwest at a California based property management company.

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 expert is the President and Chief Compliance Officer of a Registered Investment Advisory firm that he established in the 1980s. His credentials are numerous including being an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF), and recognized by the Minnesota Supreme Court as a Qualified Neutral under Minnesota Rule 114 of Standard Practice in Mediation and Arbitration. He was formerly a Registered Securities Principal with nationally recognized FINRA Registered Broker Dealers and held numerous securities licenses and registrations. He proudly serves as a FINRA and NFA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator.

This seasoned expert witness has 29 years of financial exxperience. He has a broad and deep background in various dimensions of financial services and investment management. He has worked as a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager at Arden Asset Management and Guggenheim Partners, a senior risk officer at Bear Stearns, a convertible arbitrage salesman at Murphy & Durieu, and a credit analyst and loan officer at Manufacturers Hanover. His litigation consulting firm helps plaintiffs or defendants succeed in arbitration or court, with services including case evaluation, discovery recommendations, portfolio risk reports, damage calculations, expert reports, and expert testimony. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants and has worked on both onshore and offshore litigations.

This expert was a financial advisor for seven years and a supervisor of financial advisors for twelve years. As a supervisor he served as a sales manager, office manager, regional sales manager, and complex director. He managed over a thousand different advisors in different capacities over his time at Merrill Lynch. He held series 7, 9, 10, 63, 65 and insurance licenses in his capacity as supervisor. During his career he has testified in courtroom, deposition, arbitration, and mediation situations. He has dealt with regulators, attorneys, clients, judges, mediators, and advisors in all of these situations. This expert has a BA in Political Science and an MBA with a marketing concentration, both from Vanderbilt University.

This expert specializes in structured finance, derivatives, securities and finance matters. His experience includes cash, synthetic and hybrid collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud. As a transactional attorney he has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States, including Shearman & Sterling; Mayer, Brown & Platt; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. As an expert witness and/or consultant, he has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country, including Berger Montague; Chapman and Cutler; Kirby McInerney; Labaton Sucharow; Patterson Belknap; Robbins Geller; Scott + Scott; and Williams & Connolly.

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.