Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

We're thrilled to announce that Intellex has acquired Expert by Big Village, effective March 22, 2024. This strategic move enhances our capabilities and strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

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Expert Details

Business Valuations, Damages, Personal Injury, and Forensic Accounting

ID: 735894 New York, USA

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Expert has more than 40 years of experience as a financial professional at leading firms. He has testified on more than 100 occasions in courts and arbitrations throughout the U.S. in connection with mergers and acquisitions, business valuations, bankruptcy and insolvency, financial fraud, forensic accounting, financial forecasting, investments, financial damages, and personal injury. He is currently the Managing Director and Founder of a leading financial advisory firm that serves clients nationwide and outside the United States. His clients consist of all sizes and inhabit a wide range of industries.

Expert has served more than 750 public and private clients of all sizes in a broad range of industries. He has performed more than 1,000 valuations of businesses, financial instruments, intangible assets, and other assets and liabilities. He has served boards of directors of public, private, and nonprofit organizations as member or advisor. He's also been appointed as bankruptcy examiner, bankruptcy trustee, or accountant, consultant, and/or financial advisor or as interim CEO or CFO in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcies, and he's been appointed as neutral in judicial matters and arbitrations.

Expert is an award-winning scholar, lecturer, and writer. He's been profiled in several “who’s who” publications during the past 25 years, as well as Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement inductee. He has been interviewed and profiled in several national publications, as well as network television.

He has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars in more than 60 cities throughout the U.S., and in more than 20 countries located on five continents outside of the U.S., some of which have been made available for commercial sale in printed, audio, video, and online format. He is one of the most active trainers of CFA candidates in the world over the past 25 years. Expert is a prolific author of articles in national publications, chapters in leading professional books, professional manuals, and self-study texts.

Expert is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, CFA Institute, CFA Society New York, Turnaround Management Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors, and American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts. He has served as member or committee chairman of several committees of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, as well as Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Turnaround Management Association.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1978 Degree: APC Subject: Investment Management Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Year: 1976 Degree: MS Subject: Accountancy Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Year: 1975 Degree: AB Subject: Economics; Spanish Literature Institution: Lafayette College

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1988 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Managing Director Department:
Responsibilities:
Expert founded and continues to run this leading financial advisory firm that serves clients nationwide and outside the United States.

Clients consist of all sizes and inhabit a wide range of industries in the areas of valuations, business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, insolvency, forensic accounting, financial forecasting, investments, financial damages, and personal injury.

Expert has testified as an expert witness on more than 125 occasions in courts and arbitrations throughout the United States.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1987 to 1988 Employer: Bear, Stearns and Co. Inc. (acquired by JPMorgan Chase and Co.) Title: Associate Department: Investment Banking
Responsibilities:
Provided financial advisory services to financially troubled companies and their creditors, lenders, and prospective investors. Rendered expert testimony.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1985 to 1987 Employer: Zolfo Cooper and Co. (acquired by AlixPartners) Title: Consultant Department:
Responsibilities:
Advised debtors, lenders, creditors, and prospective investors in connection with turnarounds, workouts, and bankruptcy. Rendered expert testimony.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1975 to 1985 Employer: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. (now KPMG) Title: Positions of increasing responsibility culminating in the title Senior Manager Department: Management Consulting; Mergers & Acquisitions; Audit
Responsibilities:
1981 to 1985 — started and ran a financial advisory practice for the New York office with services in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, business valuations, due diligence, financial restructuring, and financial forecasting. Rendered expert testimony.
1978 -1981 — provided merger and acquisition advisory services; business valuations.
1975 - 1978 — audit services for public and private companies.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; CFA Institute; CFA Society New York; Turnaround Management Association; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors; and American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts
Licenses / Certifications
Certified Public Accountant, 1977
Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 1978
Certified Financial Planner (CFP), 1981
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), 1983
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), 1991
Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), 1992
Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), 1994
AICPA Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV), 1998
Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV), 2004
AICPA Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), 2009
Professional Appointments
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants—published author and speaker at national conference; American Bankruptcy Institute—published author; CFA Institute—former approved prep provider; New York State Society of CPAs—former chairman of the Financial Planning and Controls Committee; member of other committees; frequent lecturer and publisher of articles; Turnaround Management Association—former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors; frequent lecturer and publisher
Awards / Recognition
Lafayette College—Frank Baker Kline Award; Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co.—Peat Marwick Authors Award; NY State Society of CPAs—Max Block Award for Outstanding Article; NY State Society of CPAs—Annual Award for Outstanding Lecturer; Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement inductee
Publications and Patents Summary
Prolific author of articles in national publications, chapters in leading professional books, professional manuals, and self-study texts.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Testified as and expert witness on more than 100 occasions since 1980 in courts and arbitrations throughout the U.S.; serve as court-appointed neutral and as neutral in nonjudicial matters.
Training / Seminars
Expert has run lectures and seminars pertaining to his fields of expertise in more than 60 cities throughout the United States and more than 20 countries located on 5 continents outside the United States.
Marketing Experience
Since 1979 he has been instrumental or solely responsible for substantially all of the projects on which he has worked.
Other Relevant Experience
Expert testimony ranges from small cases to major cases of national and international prominence. Can forward a current copy of his list of cases in which he has testified during the past 4 years that he produces in accordance with federal disclosure guidelines.

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
Spanish Moderate

Fields of Expertise

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