Corporate Governance Expert Witnesses

This expert is the senior partner of EMA Partners New York, and a retired Partner of Ernst & Young where he was the Managing Director of the global executive search practice and senior national partner for executive compensation and human resources consulting services. He has successfully completed more than 1000 search assignments in his career across all industry sectors and within all functional fields for organizations of all sizes, and for both domestic and international organizations. He has authored numerous books on the compensation of directors, corporate governance, executive selection and executive compensation. This expert is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. He is an accredited diplomat of the American Compensation Association, a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Society of Human Resources Management and the Board of Advisors of the Corporate Governance Institute at Florida Atlantis University. He was named by the Association of Executive Search Consultants as a "pioneer of executive search".

This expert has 40 years of experience as a wage and hour specialist. She worked for the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division for more than three decades, gaining extensive experience achieving compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, including white collar exemptions, regular rate in overtime computations, reconstructing hours of work, and child labor. She also has extensive experience in federal prevailing wage statutes, such as Davis Bacon, Service Contract Act and H-1B nonimmigrant employment standards. Currently, she is the Owner and Principal of her own wage and hour consulting firm, where she helps attorneys and their clients navigate the complex wage and hour laws in order to achieve compliance. She assists with conducting internal compliance audits, offers advice and support during federal and state wage investigations, and provides litigation support, including back wage estimates and expert testimony. She lectures for legal, human resource, and government agencies and holds membership in the Society for Human Resource Management, as well as the Northeast Human Resources Association.

This highly qualified risk management and insurance expert earned her BA in Insurance at Howard University and PhD in Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Georgia. She is a member of several professional organizations including the American Risk and Insurance Association, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Southern Risk and Insurance Association, Western Risk and Insurance Association, and Windstorm Insurance Network. She has received the RMIR Best Perspectives Article Award from the prestigious American Risk and Insurance Association. This expert sits of the editorial board for several peer reviewed journals and is the co-editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation. She has published 30+ articles on the insurance industry and risk management and is a frequently invited guest speaker at major conferences. Formerly she was a senior claims representative at State Farm Insurance Company. Currently she is a professor in the department of risk management and insurance at a major university.

This highly qualified attorney earned her BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University and her JD from the University of Chicago Law School. She writes about and researches issues related to corporate compliance, drawing on scholarship from the areas of professional ethics, corporate governance, employment law, and corporate social responsibility. She is currently an associate professor of law at a top midwestern law school. Before joining the law school faculty, this expert was a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and an attorney at Gibson Dunn in Washington, D.C.

This highly qualified expert is Chief Investment Officer and founder of a corporation specializing in capital management. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm's investment process and is focused on the strategic direction as well. Recognized for his expertise, he is frequently asked to speak on topics such as investment policy, portfolio management, and the risk characteristics of Real Asset investing. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg's Market Sense program and Money Moves with Deirdre Bolton. This expert has published widely on international economic and finance topics and is author of a Handbook for Infrastructure Investing, which is recommended by the CFA Institute and is a best seller. He is a professor at a business school University teaching Real Asset Investing, and remains one of the world's most provocative and respected financial analysts. His funds and separate account strategies have won numerous awards for performance in the real assets category. His current research focuses on empirical issues in investment management and corporate governance. His academic work has been published in top academic journals such as the CFA Institute, EDHEC Risk Institute and leading think tanks like the Inter American Dialogue. His research has been published by some of the leading industry trade journals including Institutional Investor Journal, Investments and Pensions Europe, Infrastructure Journal, Pensions and Investments Publications, and Investment Management Consultants Association. His research has also been covered in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Financial Times and The Globe and Mail. Private Asset Management Magazine named Capital Innovations as one of the Best Money Managers for Long-Term Performance." He has extensive experience with managing the economics of MLPs, having devoted 58% of his portfolio to this segmented industry.

This highly experienced attorney and academic currently serves as a named Professor of Law and Special Counsel to the President at a large state university in Nevada. Previously, she was the Dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Houston, as well as the Dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska. The expert earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and began her career in the Bankruptcy and Workouts Group with Morrison & Foerster before entering academia as an Assistant/Associate Professor at The Ohio State University College of Law. The expert specializes in professional ethics, corporate governance, and bankruptcy. She has published numerous works and is a frequent speaker, including a presentation delivered at the National Association of Estate Planner's 52nd Annual Conference on ethical behavior. In addition to her role as a Professor, she remains active as an expert witness and consultant.

This expert has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate governance. He earned his BSBA in business from the University of Tulsa, his MBA with a concentration is finance from Northwestern University and his PhD in business administration from the Oklahoma State University. He has served as a strategic advisor at numerous locations including Goldman Sachs & Co, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse. He was also a managing director and the head of investment banking of Southwest United States with Wells Fargo Securities. This expert currently serves as the associate dean and a professor of finance at a university in Texas and as the managing director of the corporate governance branch at a global management research institution.