Venture Capital Expert Witnesses in Pennsylvania

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 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 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 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.

Education: AB, Economics, Lafayette College; M.S., Accountancy, NYU Stern; A.P.C., Investment Management, NYU Stern Professional certifications: CPA; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); AICPA-Accredited, Business Valuation (ABV); AICPA-Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF); Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE): Certified Management Accountant (CMA); Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA); Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP); Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV); Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Member: AICPA; CFA Institute; CFA Society New York; Turnaround Management Association (former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee); American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts; + others Delivered lectures and seminars to financial and business professionals in more than 60 cities throughout the U.S. and more than 20 countries on five continents outside the U.S.

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 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 finance expert has almost 15 years of experience in his field. He specializes in equity and algorithmic trading, options, special situations, index rebalances, market on close-order aggregation and mechanisms, dark pools, blind risk, and customer ETF baskets futures. He earned a BS in business management with concentrations in finance and economics from Babson College. This expert is a certified chartered market technician. Formerly, this expert was a trader for the equity risk program at Lehman Brothers. He went on to become the director of the equity risk division at Barclays Capital. After this, he joined BlueCrest Capital Management as a portfolio manager before becoming the director of equity risk at Morgan Stanley. Currently, this expert is a self-employed financial consultant in New York.

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 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 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.