Expert Details

Valuations, SEC, Forensic Accounting, CFO Leadership, Public Companies, and Damage/Loss Profit Calculations

ID: 735251 California, USA

Expert is a forensic accountant, business valuation analyst, and CFO advisory professional with more than three decades of experience across public accounting, corporate finance leadership, and litigation consulting. Expert holds a JD alongside CPA licensure in two states, and has earned designations as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Over the course of Expert's career, Expert has served as CFO, Controller, and Director for public and private companies across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, in organizations ranging up to approximately $10 billion in size. Expert has led or supported five IPOs/DPOs and reverse mergers, raised significant outside financing, and founded, acquired, and sold multiple businesses, in addition to prior experience at a major public accounting firm and in Expert's own accounting practice.

Since the mid-2000s, Expert has built an active expert witness and valuation practice, having been involved in the valuation, sale, merger, or acquisition of more than 100 businesses and having performed more than 100 formal valuations and audits/reviews. Expert has been retained as a testifying and consulting expert in close to 100 documented litigation and dispute-resolution matters spanning professional malpractice, securities, lending/usury, valuation, forensic accounting, family law, torts, and contract disputes, appearing at deposition, arbitration, and trial on numerous occasions on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, and periodically serving in neutral roles such as court-appointed forensic accountant or accounting referee. Expert has also authored articles and developed training courses on fraud prevention, accounting software, and business valuation topics, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences, bar association events, and webinars.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1990	Degree: Bachelor of Arts	Subject: Business Management	Institution: Bucknell University

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1993 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: CFO	Department: Executive
Responsibilities: Provides CFO advisory, expert witness, and valuation services. Various public and private company roles across multiple industries in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia (spanning 30+ years). Managed organizations of varying scale, including one up to approximately $10 billion in size; raised approximately $35 million in financing across several companies; founded, acquired, and sold multiple businesses; led or participated in 5 IPOs/DPOs and reverse mergers; served as a director of public companies in multiple countries; served as CFO of a growing public company with responsibility for SEC filings; was part of the founding team of a fintech company and a retail app startup.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert has maintained an active litigation consulting and expert witness practice for approximately 30 years, handling close to 100 documented matters from the mid-1990s through 2024 across a wide range of subject areas — including CPA/CFO malpractice and fiduciary/board standard-of-care disputes, securities and SEC reporting issues, usury and banking disputes, business and IP valuations, forensic accounting, family law/marital dissolution, personal injury and employment torts, contract and M&A disputes, and elder abuse and trust litigation, with additional industry-specific work in dental practices, restaurants, cannabis, sports, and entertainment. Engaged by both plaintiff and defense counsel (and occasionally in a neutral capacity as a court- or arbitrator-appointed forensic accountant), Expert has given deposition testimony in an estimated 28 or more matters and trial, jury trial, or arbitration/hearing testimony in an estimated 10 or more matters, with the remainder resolved through reports, declarations, forensic analyses, mediation, or brokered settlement; Expert also reports having performed more than 100 business valuations and more than 100 audits/reviews, along with SOX-related, stock options accounting, and forensic work (including identifying a $300,000 embezzlement), turnaround consulting, and settlement brokering, across courts and jurisdictions spanning California, New York, Texas, Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Utah, Colorado, South Carolina, Oregon, and Canada.

Expert Witness Experience

Expert has maintained an active litigation consulting and expert witness practice for approximately 30 years, handling close to 100 documented matters from the mid-1990s through 2024 across a wide range of subject areas — including CPA/CFO malpractice and fiduciary/board standard-of-care disputes, securities and SEC reporting issues, usury and banking disputes, business and IP valuations, forensic accounting, family law/marital dissolution, personal injury and employment torts, contract and M&A disputes, and elder abuse and trust litigation, with additional industry-specific work in dental practices, restaurants, cannabis, sports, and entertainment. Engaged by both plaintiff and defense counsel (and occasionally in a neutral capacity as a court- or arbitrator-appointed forensic accountant), Expert has given deposition testimony in an estimated 28 or more matters and trial, jury trial, or arbitration/hearing testimony in an estimated 10 or more matters, with the remainder resolved through reports, declarations, forensic analyses, mediation, or brokered settlement; Expert also reports having performed more than 100 business valuations and more than 100 audits/reviews, along with SOX-related, stock options accounting, and forensic work (including identifying a $300,000 embezzlement), turnaround consulting, and settlement brokering, across courts and jurisdictions spanning California, New York, Texas, Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Utah, Colorado, South Carolina, Oregon, and Canada.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
• FEWA, Forensic Expert Witness Association • ACG, Association for Corporate Growth • Accountant Lawyer Alliance • Financial Executives International • Provisors • CalCPA, Forensic Services Section • Gerson Lehrman Group-Council Member • Consumer Attorneys of California-Member

Licenses / Certifications
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA, VA) • Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)

Awards / Recognition
• Witkin Award, Law School (Contracts and Property — awarded in two subject areas) • Member, Delta Mu Delta National Business Honor Society • Dean's List recipient on multiple (5+) occasions • Top 1% nationally on one section of the CPA exam; top 20% overall; California Ethics exam score above 90%

Publications and Patents Summary
Publications: 8+ published articles, including a three-part series in a national fraud examination trade publication on preventing fraud in troubled companies, software reviews of small-business and mid-market accounting platforms (including Peachtree, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and SBA-related accounting tools) published in CPA and industry trade publications, and an article on a fraud ring investigation. Also author of numerous blog posts on financial, legal, and business matters. Courses/Curriculum Development: Developed a video training course for accountants; co-developed accounting curriculum with a major national public accounting firm for small-cap companies. Speaking Engagements: 7+ distinct speaking engagements, panels, and webinars (spanning tax and crowdfunding investor pitches, a radio segment on fraud in M&A, a startup fundraising webinar, bar association and CPA/law firm presentations on valuations and buy-sell agreements, and an attorney affinity group presentation on buy-sell agreement pitfalls).

Publications and Patents Summary

Publications: 8+ published articles, including a three-part series in a national fraud examination trade publication on preventing fraud in troubled companies, software reviews of small-business and mid-market accounting platforms (including Peachtree, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and SBA-related accounting tools) published in CPA and industry trade publications, and an article on a fraud ring investigation. Also author of numerous blog posts on financial, legal, and business matters.

Courses/Curriculum Development: Developed a video training course for accountants; co-developed accounting curriculum with a major national public accounting firm for small-cap companies.

Speaking Engagements: 7+ distinct speaking engagements, panels, and webinars (spanning tax and crowdfunding investor pitches, a radio segment on fraud in M&A, a startup fundraising webinar, bar association and CPA/law firm presentations on valuations and buy-sell agreements, and an attorney affinity group presentation on buy-sell agreement pitfalls).

Fields of Expertise