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1991 to

(Undisclosed)

President

He provides expert testimony in business and personal litigation: evaluations of lost profits, goodwill, business value, earnings; antitrust and securities issues; intellectual property; forensic accounting; econometric and statistical analysis; corporate financial advisory services and business valuation.

1987 to 1991

QED Research, Inc.

Los Angeles Office

Director

He provided expert testimony in business and personal litigation: evaluations of lost profits, goodwill, business value, earnings; antitrust and securities issues; intellectual property; forensic accounting; econometric and statistical analysis; corporate financial advisory services and business valuation.

1983 to 1987

First Interstate Bancorp

Economics

Vice President/Manager Industry Economics

He advised the Credit Policy Committee about industry economic risk factors to guide policy for allocating credit among industries in a $30 billion commercial loan portfolio. He researched and evaluated the business environment in over 40 industries considering both domestic and international economic factors.

1978 to 1983

The Aerospace Corporation

Government Support Operations/Economic Evaluation Directorate

Manager, Economic Analysis

He evaluated financial and economic feasibility of commercialization of alternative energy technologies based on regulated-utility financial analysis and national benefit-cost analysis. He quantified private and social net benefits including externalities. He evaluated national economic benefits and costs of U.S. government policy options for energy and resource development and management. He developed economic and financial models for solar energy technologies, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, proposed West-to-East oil pipeline to deliver Alaska oil to U.S. midwest.

1975 to 1977

Dart Industries, Inc.

Corporate Financial Planning

Senior Financial Analyst

He evaluated group five-year financial plans and capital-budget requests for $2 billion 125-division multinational consumer-products conglomerate. He forecasted operating results. He analyzed deviations from plan and advised senior management of situations and control measures. He advised senior management of industry conditions to support acquisition decisions.

• Lost profits/plaintiff: A verdict of $8.4 million was awarded in Superior Court to a closely held consumer-products company that was victimized by diversion of its products into the “gray” market.
• Lost profits/counter-claimant: Expert helped to win a verdict of $5.5 million in federal court in favor of a marginally profitable newly established cosmetics business. This verdict was sustained on appeal to the 9th Circuit.
• Trade secret misappropriation/defense: Expert determined that plaintiff's lost profits claim, which was over $30 million, assumed an above-market sales price that could have been obtained only through an illegal tying arrangement. The case settled shortly after Expert's deposition, with no out-of-pocket cost to the defendant, a large manufacturer.
• Wrongful termination/defense: A defense verdict was returned relative to plaintiff's demand of $1.3 million based on Expert's testimony showing how plaintiff, a marketing director, made $1 million on a real-estate development.
• Trademark infringement/plaintiff: Expert's sophisticated econometric analysis helped to achieve a verdict of $2.3 million in federal court for a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

• Expert in damage calculations for consulting on economic damages calculation.
• Expert witness on spreadsheet software and Visual Basic for the PC.
• FINRA misrepresentation and suitability expert witness for FINRA arbitration.
• Expert inasessing punitive damages for litigation case.
• Expert in cost of living comparison between Bridgewater, MA and Milan, Italy.
• Expert witness in SEC independence rules for consulting on SEC auditor independence rules.