Business Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This hotel/hospitality expert is a certified hotel administrator who has been heavily involved in the industry for more than 40 years, including positions as General Manager of a Best Western Inn Motel, Executive Vice President of State Street Associates, and General Manager of AmeriSuites Hotel. He is a former program director/associate professor of hospitality management at a local college, and is currently a consultant in the hotel/hospitality industry. He has 11 years of experience as an expert witness/consultant for attorneys with cases in his field.

This experienced corporate finance attorney retired after a 44-year career with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd in Chicago, where he practiced in securities, corporate governance, and related areas. For 13 years, he was the Chair of his firm's corporate and securities group, working with many large U.S. Corporations. He recently taught an M&A course at Northwestern University and currently acts as an independent consultant and a FINRA arbitrator.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in forensic accounting, focusing on the measurement of economic damages and litigation support. He received a BS in Business Administration and Accounting at Roosevelt University and is an active, certified Public Accountant, Global Management Accountant, Financial Forensic Specialist, and Fraud Examiner. This expert has experience across numerous industries including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare. He has participated in numerous seminars involving the measurement of economic damages to the legal profession, insurance industry personnel, and the private sector. He has utilized his expertise in numerous legal proceeding including a matter in which he was hired to quantify damages in a product liability matter involving agricultural growing materials purchased by a cooperative of farmers. Such experience has made him proficient in the commercial agricultural operations, agricultural cooperatives, and other farm services. He is currently a Partner at an international forensic accounting firm.

This expert has over 20 years of telecommunications, intellectual property, and business management experience. He received his BS in computer and electrical engineering and his MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Currently, this expert is a consultant in the telecommunication, intellectual property, and cryptography industries. He has published 16 telecommunications-related patents. Formerly, he has worked as a lead engineer at Motorola, the head of IP and head of customer insights and experience/subscriber data management at Nokia, the vice-president of product management and general manager for America at Nokia and as the vice-president of product management at Cirries. He is currently Managing Director of Operations for a firm specializing in cryptography and related systems for Internet and communications security.

This highly qualified physical security expert has over 30 years of experience in the field including tags and seals, security negligence, and vulnerability assessments. He earned his BA in physics from Carleton College and his MS and PhD in physics from University of Colorado. This expert is a certified protection professional with ten US patents and a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He served as a former senior systems engineer and section manager at Argonne National Laboratory and currently works as an instructor at a private Illinois University and the founder and as CEO of a security consulting firm.

This qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare field. She earned her BS from Rush University and her MBA from Lewis University. She earned several post-graduate certificates, including a CCM Masters Certificate in case management and a Masters Certificate in corporate governance from the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. This expert also graduated as part of the eighth cohort of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 small businesses program. This expert is a licensed RN in two states and is certified in several areas, including healthcare financial management, business management, and risk management assurance. She began her career as a registered nurse at three Chicago-area hospitals before transitioning to work as an internal medical auditor. This expert has also served as a healthcare subject matter expert for the Illinois department of central management services and an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. She has authored numerous articles, been interviewed for radio shows and podcasts, and led several presentations and workshops. She has received multiple awards for her work, including an award for Influential Women in Business. Currently, she is the president and CEO of a healthcare consulting, auditing, and forensic services firm based in Illinois.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in asset management. He earned his BS in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan before earning his MBA from Harvard University. He is licensed by the National Futures Association in national commodity futures and is a member of the National Futures Association Hearing Committee. Throughout his career, he has held multiple distinguished leadership roles. He was the vice president of investment banking for Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, and the vice president of Commercial Union Capital Corporation. While working for ABN AMRO Bank N.V., he rose from the head of financial engineering to the role of president and CEO of ABN AMRO. He was a founder and managing partner of Mumford Capital Partners, an equity partner of 2100 Xenon Group, and a partner of Emerging Edge Group. Currently, this expert serves as the chief financial officer, chief compliance officer, and secretary to the board of a registered investment advisor based in Illinois.

This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in anesthesiology extensive experience as an attorney. He received his BS in business management from Purdue University before earning his JD from the University of Tennessee and his MD from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. After earning his MD, he completed an anesthesiology residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and was admitted to the Illinois Bar Association. He is active in his field as a supervisor and clinical instructor for nurse anesthetists, medical students, CRNA students, and resident physicians and as a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He has formerly served as an associate for the Law Offices of Robert Morton and McNeela & Griffin, the president of anesthesia services at Lakeshore Surgery Center, the vice president of Anesthesia Associates of Streator at St. Mary's Hospital, and the medical director of Riverside Ambulatory Surgery Center. Currently, this expert serves as an attending anesthesiologist for an Illinois hospital system.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in healthcare management. He earned his BA in political science from the American University and completed graduate coursework in health care public policy at the University of Chicago. Throughout his career, he has been highly involved in health care forums, having a hand in healthcare changes such as successfully lobbying Congress to include kidney transplantation in HR 1 in the 1970s. He has formerly served as the program director for the American Kidney Fund and the director of development for the National Kidney Foundation. He also served as the evaluation director of the Mayor's Office Model Cities Anti-Poverty Programs during the Daley administration in the city of Chicago. Currently, this expert serves as the CEO of two healthcare consulting firms and the president of a healthcare staffing organization.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in massage therapy and athletic training. He is licensed in massage therapy and belongs to the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Massage Therapy Association. He formerly served as a massage therapist and athletic trainer for the Chicago Sting Soccer Team and as a massage therapist for the Chicago White Sox Baseball Team. He also served as an adjunct instructor of athletic training at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and as an adjunct professor of physical therapy and athletic training at Trinity University. Currently, this expert is a consultant of massage therapy for an elite tennis tournament and serves as the founder and CEO of an athletic training consultancy and as the founder and clinical director of a massage therapy center in Illinois.

This highly qualified legal marketing expert earned his BA from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign and a JD at Emory University School of Law. He is very active in his field as a member of the Association of Legal Administrators and is a member of the strategic planning task force with the Legal Marketing Association. In addition, he published several books on law firm associate marketing and has won industry awards including the Legal Marketing Association Lifetime Achievement award. He has formerly held roles as the director of marketing for Winston & Strawn and client service and marketing partner at Ungaretti & Harris. He is currently the CEO of the world's leading law firm marketing, branding, and website development company.

This expert has over 30 years of experience in financial trading. He received his BS in business administration from the University of North Dakota and his MBA from Harvard University. He is a CPA and currently holds 8 patents for automated trading in an electronic exchange. Formerly, he served as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at Institutional Capital Corporation and a trader and designated primary market manager for the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Subsequently, he started four successful trading and software start-ups generating over $50 million for shareholders. Currently, this expert is the CEO and owner of a software trading platform in Illinois.

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.