Economic Business Valuation Expert Witness

SUMMARY

Expert Witness provides economic, financial, managerial, operational, statistical, expert consulting and litigation support services to business, non-profits, government agencies, and attorneys.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. 1989 University of California, Riverside B.S.

Major: 1980 University of California, Riverside Economics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1991-Present Consultant
Consulting Group)
Sacramento, California
Providing consulting services for private and public sectors.
Areas covered include: economic impact studies, efficiency studies, benefit/cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, modeling and
forecasting, strategic management and planning, finance and public policy.

1992-Present Litigation Consultant and Expert Witness
Providing expert witness and financial & economic consulting services in lawsuits concerning personal injury, wrongful death, discrimination, wrongful termination, business valuations, economic & financial research, profit loss and damages.
Consulted in approx. 850 cases & for more than 200 firms. Testified on 144 occasions.

1999-Present Lecturer
Department of Economics & College of Business Administration
California State University, Sacramento
Teaching introductory macroeconomics and microeconomics, money and banking, financial markets, investments, research methodology, econometrics, macroeconomic theory, the international economy, environmental economics, forecasting methods, business statistics, strategic management, microeconomic theory, business finance, business ethics, business communications, financial accounting, portfolio management, California economy, and United States economy. Advise students. Supervise research assistants and independent studies.

2006-2012 Lecturer
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Davis
Taught investments, personal finance and economics of development.
Advise students. Supervise independent studies, teaching assistants and readers.

2004-2011 Adjunct Faculty
University of San Francisco Sacramento, CA
Taught international economics, managerial economics, public finance, macroeconomic and microeconomic principles.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS/TECHNICAL REPORTS:

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Financial Analysis of Credit Damage, article for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of California.

Ethics and the Effective Use of Economic Analysis in Litigation, article for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of California.

Financial and Economic Analysis in Business Litigation, article for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of California.

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY AND CONSULTATION:

Consulted in approx. eight hundred fifty cases. Testified on one hundred forty-four occasions.

Clients include State Farm Insurance, Bank of New York, Allied Electric Motor, General American Investments, California Attorney General, and numerous attorneys in San Francisco and surrounding area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and surrounding area, Las Vegas, Fresno, Iowa, Hawaii, New York City, British Columbia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Montana. More than 200 law firms.

Cases include: personal injury, wrongful death, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, breach of contracts, business valuations, loss of profits, financial analysis, settlement issues, divorce, and public finance issues.

SPECIALIZED FIELDS:

Economics of Development Benefit-Cost Analysis Forensic Economics Econometric Modeling
Management & Strategic Planning Public Policy
Business Cycle Analysis Input-Output Analysis Money and Banking Environmental Economics Applied Economics

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2012 Faculty Research Fellow Grant, Center for California Studies, CSU Sacramento 1991-2001 $300,000 approx in California State grants and contracts for applied research and
analysis (as an individual and team member)

2000 Faculty Research Fellow Grant, Center for California Studies, CSU Sacramento. 1985-1986 Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, University of California, Riverside 1985-1986 Chancellor’s Patent Fund Grant, University of California, Riverside
1984-1987 Teaching Assistant Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Friends of Mount Athos Society Association for Evolutionary Economics American Economics Association
National Association of Forensic Economics Sacramento County Bar (associate)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

2016-present Hellenic Studies Program Committee
2016-present Library Research Fellowship Program Committee
2016-present Senator Nicholas Petris Undergraduate Scholarship Committee

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Advised California State Assembly and Congressional candidates on economic issues and policy. Reviewed economic platforms for United States Senate and California gubernatorial candidates.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND LANGUAGES:

Working knowledge of and experience with computer statistical software, word processing and the internet.

Fluent conversational Greek

WORLD TRAVEL:

2004 Greece and Holland
2003 Greece and England
2002 Greece and Holland
2001 Greece
1999 Greece and Germany
1996 Greece
1995 England & Wales
1994 Greece, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland & England 1985 Greece & West Germany
1983 Baja California & Mexico