Spanning more than 50 years, this expert’s career brings together financial consulting, forensic accounting, business valuation, corporate finance, and executive leadership. He specializes in litigation consulting involving forensic accounting, business damages, economic damages, technical accounting, corporate governance, financial analysis, and complex business disputes. His expertise includes damages calculations involving business and personal matters, public company accounting issues, financial investigations, fraud analysis, business valuation, lost profits, breach of fiduciary duty, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy matters, securities-related issues, and corporate governance. He also has more than 15 years of experience as a financial expert witness, including consultations, depositions, arbitrations, courtroom testimony, and appearances before the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Bankruptcy Court, and U.S. District Courts.

His professional background includes service as Partner at a Big Four accounting firm, Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Vice President of Corporate Development, President of a financial consulting and investment banking firm, and Principal of a litigation consulting practice. In these roles, he advised public and private companies on financial reporting, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, operational improvement, investment banking, refinancing, recapitalizations, debt negotiations, and other financial transactions, business valuation, and litigation support. His litigation consulting experience has included forensic accounting investigations, breach-of-contract and lost-profit analyses, fraud investigations, shareholder disputes, breach of contract matters, personal injury damages, fiduciary duty claims, patent infringement damages, financial institution disputes, business failure analyses, and expert testimony involving complex financial and accounting issues.

In addition to his consulting and executive leadership experience, he has served on the boards of directors and audit committees of public, private, nonprofit, and investment organizations, providing oversight in corporate governance, financial reporting, valuation, and audit matters. His qualifications are further supported by a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in International Business and Finance, credentials as a Certified Public Accountant (retired), Chartered Global Management Accountant, and Certified Bank Director, and professional affiliations with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts, the National Association of Corporate Directors, and the Economic Round Table of Los Angeles.