Fraud Expert Witnesses

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.

This expert has been in the accounting industry for nearly 30 years. A doctor of accounting, he regularly conducts continuing education seminars for organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, law enforcement agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. Widely published in the field, he was a member of the Editorial Board for the Certified Public Accountants Journal for 10 years and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting for 4 years. A former Associate Professor of Accounting at Brigham Young University and Senior Forensic Accountant at Eide Bailly, LLP, this expert is now an Associate Professor of Accounting at another major university and is also a Partner at a forensic accounting firm that specializes in fraud detection, investigation, and litigation support services.

This expert has been working in the petroleum industry for over 40 years. He has worked for numerous petroleum and energy firms in a variety of capacities, from production and drilling accountant and oil and gas accountant to senior internal auditor, control analyst, audit manager, and senior staff auditor. Awarded the honor of Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, he holds a number of certifications for auditing, fraud examination, and consulting, while he has held membership in the Council of Petroleum Accountants Societies for over 40 years. Currently, this expert runs his own petroleum consulting firm, where he provides services in the areas of auditing, negotiation, reviews, due diligence, fraud, litigation support, and joint interest and contract compliance. His clients have included Amoco, Chevron, Exxon, and Texaco, among many others, and his audits have returned exceptions of up to $60 million. This expert is an author and widely published.

This highly qualified financial expert has 30+ years of professional experience at leading firms. Currently he is a Prinicipal at R. G. Quintero & Co. and a Managing Director at Chartered Capital Advisers. Previously he, was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., an insolvency and restructuring advisor at Zolfo, Cooper & Co, and also started and ran the first valuation practice of KPMG. This expert has performed 1000+ valuations of business, financial instruments, intangible assets, and other assets and liabilities and he has testified as an expert witness on more than 60 occasions in courts throughout the U.S. He is a member several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Turnaround Management Association, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. This expert has numerous certifications. He has ten professional licenses including CPA and CFA. He earned his MS in Accountancy and an APC in Investment Management at New York University.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of forensic accounting and fraud forensics, with an extensive background in fraud engagements, shareholder and partnership disputes, and other areas of investigative accounting. He earned his BS in accounting from Rutgers University and certified as a public accountant, valuation analyst, global management accountant, and fraud examiner. This expert is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the USA 500 Club. He has formerly served the managing director for multiple firms and as a professor of accounting at the graduate level. Currently, this expert serves as the partner-in-charge of the New York region at a public accounting and advisory services firm in New York.

This highly-qualified expert in bankruptcy law has over 15 years of experience in his field, with extensive experience in myriad commercial law matters, including bankruptcy, contract disputes, commercial loans, financial restructuring, fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer law, corporate responsibility, leveraged buyouts, and securities. He earned his BA in business administration from the University of Miami and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is active in his field with 8 peer-reviewed journal articles published with a focus on corporate bankruptcy. In addition, his recent publications have been recognized by the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable and have appeared in the University of Connecticut Law Review, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Before joining academia, he practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Baker Botts in Houston. While in private practice, he participated in cases involving Lehman Brothers and Trump Hotel & Casino Resorts. He then transitioned to academia, serving as an associate professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. During the 2018-2019 academic year, this expert was a Fulbright Schuman Scholar and served as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford Law School. Currently, he is a professor of law and the co-director of the Center for Business Law & Innovation at a law school in Oregon, as well as the editor-in-chief for a major law publication.

This cybersecurity expert is a seasoned entrepreneur and experienced consultant in the field of identity theft. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California-San Diego and is the owner of over 100 patents. The expert previously founded a mobile malware company that he later sold to Qualcomm. He also worked as the Principal Scientist for Consumer Security at PayPal, and he was a Member of the Fraud Advisory Board for LifeLock. He has published five books in this area, and he recently founded another fraud detection company.

This expert has nearly 35 years of experience in the prevention of cyber crime and identity theft. Among the top consumer security and identity theft experts, he has worked with financial firms, governments, intellegence organizations, and Fortune 500 companies on identity theft education and prevention. He has acted as advisor to numerous security firms, including Check Point, Websense, Ntru Cryptosystems, Securify, and SiteLock, as well as several identity protection firms such as PrivacyMatters, EZ Shield, IdentityGuard, and Credit Sesame. He has published a book on the topic and has authored numerous articles and blog posts. The expert currently runs a national security awareness campaign.

This expert has been an active teacher in the areas of taxation and international accounting at a prominent University for over 15 years. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he has also provided tax consulting services for nonresident alien and U.S. taxpayers. This expert’s research articles have appeared in such journals as The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of State Taxation, the Journal of World Trade, Accounting Horizons, CPA Journal, Tax Executive, Business and Tax Planning Quarterly, and Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly. This expert is currently a professor at a top tier Midwestern University.

This highly qualified expert has years of experience in financial forensics and fraud examination. He received his BA in political science from the University of California Riverside and his MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. He is certified as a valuation analyst and a fraud examiner. This expert has held several leadership positions in his field, including serving as a director for a top-25 national accounting and consulting firm and a principal in the litigation consulting and forensic accounting services practice group for one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the United States. He has served as an adjunct professor in economics, authored several published articles, and presented at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's Global Fraud Conference. Currently, this expert is a partner at a litigation consulting and financial forensics firm in California.