Investment Adviser Expert Witnesses in Georgia

This highly qualified expert has over 32 years of experience in intangibles consultative sales and client-facing compliance. He earned his BA in economics from the Virginia Military Institute and his MBA from the College of William & Mary. He is a certified financial planner and business intermediary as well as a chartered life underwriter and financial consultant. This expert formerly served as a financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial and as an independent broker/advisor. He currently works as an author, having recently published a book on successful financial planning.

This expert is highly qualified in personal and small business finance. He earned his BS in computer science from the University of Southern Mississippi. He then received his MS in personal financial planning from the college for financial planning and his DBA in marketing from Keiser University. He is a certified financial planner and a member of the Financial Planning Association. He has been a financial advisor and an investment services advisor, as well as the investment services director for Community First Credit Union. He also served as the president of A1A Wealth Management, an independent financial planning, wealth management, and small business consulting firm. He was the curriculum chairman for information technology at Robert Morris University and was a part of online faculty for multiple universities teaching personal finance courses. Currently, this expert is a finance professor for an online program for a Florida university and the resident financial planner for a financial wellness company based in Florida.

This expert has demonstrated experience in the fields of economics, telecommunications, and estate planning. He earned both his BA in management and business and his MA in economics from North Carolina State University. He is a certified estate advisor and a registered financial consultant. Additionally, this expert holds licenses for life, health, and accident insurance, long term care insurance, and Medigap supplemental insurance. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations including the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants and the National Association of Financial and Estate Planners. He previously served as a supervising field engineer for General Telephone Corporation, a staff engineer for Concord Telephone Company, the director of marketing and strategic planning for Tel-Amco, an investment broker for A.G. Edwards & Sons, general manager for GVNW, and executive director of marketing for Madison River Communications. For over 20 years, this expert has served as the president of a marketing and telecommunications consultancy in North Carolina.

This highly qualified expert is a senior executive and investment professional with 30 years of experience in his field. After earning his BA in finance from the University of Notre Dame, he went on to complete his MBA in international management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a chartered financial analyst and is certified in FINRA Series 7, 24, 53, 63 and 65. This expert has served in many leadership roles throughout his career, including as the international director of Citizens Insurance Company of America, as president of Sunset Financial Services Corporation, the owner and principal at The Immersion Group, and the senior managing director of Horizon Investments LLC. Most recently, he has founded and is serving as the CEO of a corporate services and investment company based in North Carolina, providing strategic business consulting and subject-matter expertise to clients throughout the country.

This economics Ph.D. has a broad financial background spanning mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and structured products. After earning his master's and doctorate from the University of Florida, he became a tenured Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. The expert eventually began a successful career in finance and served in several senior positions, including as global head of MBS research at two major investment banks, CS First Boston and UBS. He also worked in two senior trading roles focused on whole loans and securities, managing portfolios upwards of $90 billion in those positions. More recently, he was the Product Manager for an MBS and ABS valuation and risk analytics consulting firm. The expert recently started his own business as an independent consultant. In this capacity he has served as an expert witness in cases involving FINRA, the SEC, and the U.S. District Court.

This expert was a financial advisor for seven years and a supervisor of financial advisors for twelve years. As a supervisor he served as a sales manager, office manager, regional sales manager, and complex director. He managed over a thousand different advisors in different capacities over his time at Merrill Lynch. He held series 7, 9, 10, 63, 65 and insurance licenses in his capacity as supervisor. During his career he has testified in courtroom, deposition, arbitration, and mediation situations. He has dealt with regulators, attorneys, clients, judges, mediators, and advisors in all of these situations. This expert has a BA in Political Science and an MBA with a marketing concentration, both from Vanderbilt University.