Venture Capital Expert Witnesses in Delaware

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 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 financial expert earned his BA from Brown University, and his Master of International Affairs in Finance from Columbia University. He has held top leadership positions at numerous financial institutions including Standard & Poor's and Lehman Brothers He is the former Senior VP and Co-Head of Investment Banking Credit, Ratings Advisory, & Execution at Lehman Brothers. Through 2013, this expert was the Director/Senior Vice President - Ratings Advisory & Credit Review for Barclays/Lehman Brothers. He is currently an independent financial consultant.

This qualified computer science expert earned his BS in physics and computer science from Rutgers University before earning his MS in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has experience with several programming languages and software programs, including Python, Java, and Amazon Web Services. He formerly served as a software engineer for CSF Corporation. Currently, this expert serves as the co-founder and CTO of a community assistance non-profit based in New Jersey, as well as a venture associate for a venture capital firm and a developer evangelist and a venture startup mentor for an enterprise software firm, both based in New York.

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 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.