Financial Expert Witnesses in Vermont

This expert has over 15 years of experience in financial services, consulting with Financial Advisors, Registered Investment Advisors, and Broker-Dealers.

This expert currently serves as Owner and Founder of a hedge fund advisory firm that provides various services including due diligence evaluation, accounting, and compliance consulting. He previously worked in various positions as an accountant, a capital markets consultant, CFO, and Managing Director for a hedge fund consulting group. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst with a degree in Accounting from Hofstra University.

This expert currently serves as Associate Professor of Economics at a university in New York and has been teaching economics for over 30 years. She received her B.A. in Sociology, her M.A., in Economics, and her Ph.D. in Economics. Her publications and presentations have focused on the topics of home mortgages and the foreclosure crisis. She previously worked at the New York State Banking Department (now the NYS Division of Financial Services) as Assistant Director of Banking Research and Acting Director of Financial Services Research. This included analyzing the performance of New York State banks as well as analyzing banking and mortgage trends.

This qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in accounting, law, and finance. He received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Delaware and a J.D. from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. An active member of the American Society of Appraisers and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, he is certified in Financial Forensics and as a Public Accountant. His previous positions include Senior Consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP, Director of Valuation Services at Weiser Consulting Services LLC, and Director of Valuation Services at Mahoney Cohen & Company. He is currently President of a boutique appraisal and forensic valuation firm and Principal of a valuation and compliance consulting firm.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This expert has over 30 years of experiences with securities, investments, and insurance at the financial advisor, supervisory, and managing principal level. He has his producer's license in life, accident, and health insurance, is a certified financial planner, a chartered financial consultant, and a chartered life underwriter. He is also a member of numerous prestigious organizations in the insurance and financial services fields. This expert is is a former agency manager at John Hancock Financial Services, former managing principal at Waddell and Reed and a former Adjunct Professor in the department of finance at the University of Connecticut. He is currently an adjunct professor in financial management at a top university and the founder/consultant at a securities, insurance, and financial services expert witness and litigation consulting firm.

This highly qualified economist received his B.A. from Harvard University, M.A. from the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D in Economics from George Washington University. He brings extensive experience in financial regulation through his 5 years experience working as an economist at the federal-level at the Federal Reserve Board, Small Business Administration, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He also served as Chief Economist and Senior Policy Adviser in the Office of the New York City Comptroller for 13 years. He has taught MBA level courses on Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance and Economics at NYU's Stern School of Business, Baruch College, and Pace University. This expert is a member of several professional organization including the New York Association for Business Economics, Economists for Peace and Security. His testimony has been heard by such agencies as the NYS Public Service Commission three times, the NYS Assembly Housing Committee, the NYC Council, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, .and the U.S. House Banking Committee.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in financial services, specializing in structured credit products, collateral and fund administration, complex derivatives, trustee and custodian roles and responsibilities, and securitization including CLO's, CDO's, and RMBSs. He received his BS in naval sciences at the Military Naval School in Lisbon before earning his bachelor's degree in management and business administration at the Universidade Lusíada. He subsequently completed a financial risk management certificate at New York University and earned his MS in finance and investments at City University London. This expert has formerly served as a junior consultant for PVA International, CDO risk analyst and CDO head of risk and compliance for Wilmington Trust Conduit Services, as well as the vice president of Wilmington Trust Conduit Services. Currently, this expert is an independent consultant for three financial consultancies.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in marketing across various industries, with experience in financial services, economic damages, restructuring, bankruptcy, and fiduciary duties. He earned his BS in business administration and management from Indiana University. He has worked as a business consultant since 1990 focused on sales, marketing, and project management. He has developed numerous marketing campaigns, as well as consulted with business clients in developing marketing strategies. He has held executive positions with companies in industries ranging from energy to pharmaceuticals and currently serves as the president of two consulting firms with a focus on business consulting and litigation support.

This highly qualified financial services technology expert has over 35 years of professional experience. His expertise includes systems development, integration, infrastructure, information security and operations in the trading, investment, banking, and asset management businesses. He earned his BS in computer science from the City University of New York and is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University. He holds certifications as an information systems security professional and is a member of prestigious organizations such as the Hedge Fund Technology Group and the Project Management Institute. He has spoken at various financial IT conferences on key and emerging technologies, services, and issues with those in attendance. For the past 10 years, he has served as a board member of Wall Street Technology Association and currently is a special advisor. Formerly, he has served as the chief information officer at Caxton Associates LLC, and the chief technology officer at Harvard Management Co. and Annaly Capital Management. Currently, this expert is the chief information officer at a NY-based IT advisory and consulting firm.

This highly qualified finance expert has almost 15 years of experience in his field. He specializes in equity and algorithmic trading, options, special situations, index rebalances, market on close-order aggregation and mechanisms, dark pools, blind risk, and customer ETF baskets futures. He earned a BS in business management with concentrations in finance and economics from Babson College. This expert is a certified chartered market technician. Formerly, this expert was a trader for the equity risk program at Lehman Brothers. He went on to become the director of the equity risk division at Barclays Capital. After this, he joined BlueCrest Capital Management as a portfolio manager before becoming the director of equity risk at Morgan Stanley. Currently, this expert is a self-employed financial consultant in New York.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and corporate valuation, with additional specialization in energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors. After earning his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he went on to become an analyst in corporate finance at Wheat First Butcher Singer and then an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Rothschild Inc. Subsequently, this expert took on many leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions, including as vice president at Prudential Securities Inc., director at UBS Investment Bank, and managing director at RBC Capital Markets. He has also served as managing director of energy and natural resources at BNP Paribas and chief financial officer at ZaZa Energy Corporation. Currently, this expert is the founder and group head of an energy and infrastructure-focused banking firm based in New York and Texas.