Maryland securities expert witnesses analyze broker-dealer conduct, investment suitability, valuation, and market practices. They often come from FINRA-regulated firms, regional banks, compliance departments, and forensic accounting, with experience tied to Baltimore–Washington finance and federal contracting. These experts commonly evaluate disclosure adequacy, supervision failures, damages modeling, and trading or advisory standard-of-care opinions.
Federal Reserve Banking Risk Policies Expert Witness
Federal Reserve Banking Risk Policies Expert Witness
This highly qualified banking supervisory expert is a former officer at the Federal Reserve Board, where he was responsible for regulatory policies and supervisory standards surrounding credit, market, liquidity and operational risk management at regulated institutions. The expert first joined the Federal Reserve in 1991 as a Supervisory Financial Analyst and became a Deputy Associate Director for the Board of Governors in 2004. He oversaw market and liquidity risk, as well as capital markets, and also handled operational risk policy in his last year with the Federal Reserve. Over the course of a 20-year career with the regulatory body, he established and managed regulatory and supervisory programs on the capital requirements and risk management of banking organizations' capital markets, trading and derivatives activities; treasury functions; interest rate, market risk, and liquidity exposures; and investment portfolio and asset/liability management practices. After leaving the Federal Reserve, the expert joined Ernst & Young LLP as an Executive Director of the Financial Services Risk Management Advisory Practice. He earned his Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Economics & International Relations from American University, his Masters of Arts & Sciences in Economics from Boston College, his Masters of Business Administration from George Washington University, and his Chartered Financial Analyst credential from CFA Institute.
Financial Markets & Institutions Consultant, Independent
Master of Business Administration (MBA), George Washington University
Maryland