Professor Kahn’s research interests include brand management and loyalty, consumer choice and decision making, price promotions, and retailing. She has served as an expert witness and testified at deposition in numerous matters. Professor Kahn is the author of Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth and The Shopping Revolution: How Retailers Succeed in an Era of Endless Disruption Accelerated by COVID-19, and coauthor of Grocery Revolution: The New Focus on the Customer. She has published more than 70 articles in leading academic journals. She is a former area editor of Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Marketing, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, and Marketing Letters. Prior to joining The Wharton School, Professor Kahn was on the faculty of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She also served as dean of the Miami Herbert Business School.

Professor Grabowski specializes in health care economics, with a particular focus on insurance coverage and prescription drug markets and prices. He has testified before Congress on payment and quality issues in health care, and was the principal investigator on several research projects funded by the National Institute on Aging. He has also testified as an expert in a large pharmaceutical antitrust litigation matter, in which he explained how prescriptions are paid for. As a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Professor Grabowski advised Congress on issues impacting the Medicare program. He has served as a technical expert for numerous organizations, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Professor Grabowski’s research on such topics as post-acute care payment models, Medicare hospital payment systems, and COVID policies in long-term care has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals as well as medical and mainstream media. Additionally, his work has earned support from numerous organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Donaghue Foundation. Professor Grabowski is a frequent speaker at national and international health economics conferences.

Ms. Pike applies her expertise in health economics, statistics, and large administrative claims and transaction-level databases to help resolve complex litigation and strategic business questions in a variety of contexts, including matters involving the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Controlled Substance Act. She has performed economic analyses and presented findings to US Attorney's Office investigators in numerous cases involving allegations of off-label promotion, kickback, and pricing issues. Ms. Pike also applies economic theory and empirical estimation methods in a variety of product liability, breach of contract, intellectual property, and transfer-pricing engagements. She has extensive experience in developing flexible damages models for real-time use in high-stakes negotiations. 

Ms. Pike has been instrumental in developing bespoke suspicious order monitoring programs; building internal analytical programs to assess the risk of theft or diversion; and assisting manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies in responding to government investigations and/or lawsuits related to controlled substance distribution and dispensing. She has managed a range of health care cases involving analysis of future lost profits; economic analysis of physician payment structures under capitation; studies of the cost effectiveness, budget impacts, and direct and indirect costs of illness associated with a variety of diseases; and pricing analyses for large multinational corporations across numerous industries. Ms. Pike has published numerous articles on related topics in health care economics and clinical journals.

Professor Platt is an expert in biostatistics and pharmacoepidemiology, with a focus on developing statistical methods for causal inferences in observational studies. His recent research addresses both broad methodological topics in pharmacoepidemiology and statistical issues specific to perinatal epidemiology. Since 2011, Professor Platt has served as the leader of the methods team for the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies, whose mandate is to provide high-quality evidence in response to drug safety queries generated by Canadian public health stakeholders. He was president of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research for two years, and continues to serve the society on its executive committee. Professor Platt is a past president of the Statistical Society of Canada. In addition, over a span of seven years he led and developed the Biostatistics Consulting Service and oversaw the amalgamation of biostatistics services under the Centre for Innovative Medicine and the Centre for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center. Professor Platt is an active publisher and serves as an associate editor of multiple journals, including Statistics in Medicine and the American Journal of Epidemiology. He has participated in several national grant panels, including for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC). 

Mr. Davis specializes in applying financial economics and data analysis to major litigation matters, with a focus on agricultural markets and pharmaceutical products. He has experience managing case teams, supporting academic affiliates and industry experts, and assisting clients through all phases of complex business litigation, including fact discovery, class certification, merits, trial, and settlement. Mr. Davis’s agricultural experience includes antitrust matters involving allegations of market power in animal protein markets, matters involving the presence of genetically modified products in US grain supplies, and matters involving international trade in agricultural products. His pharmaceutical work includes antitrust matters involving allegations of delayed generic entry, False Claims Act matters involving allegations related to the promotion of pharmaceuticals, and disputes pertaining to the commercial reasonableness of firm conduct.

Mr. Davis also has experience conducting economic research across a variety of industries, including financial services, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, and analyzing issues related to commodity markets, futures prices, intellectual property and patents, industrial organization and antitrust law, and financial market infrastructure. He is a CFA charterholder. 

Professor Zervas specializes in quantitative marketing. His research lies at the interface of data science and economics, with a focus on empirical studies of online platforms and marketplaces. He has been retained to consult on matters involving significant data collection and analysis, as well as economic analysis. He has testified in litigation on various technical issues regarding digital platforms. In his research, Professor Zervas has studied the digitization of reputation, e-commerce, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and computational advertising. He has presented and published on topics such as the rise of the sharing economy – specifically, its impact on the hotel industry – and online reputation management. An associate editor of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, Professor Zervas has also served on the editorial review boards of Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Marketing. Prior to joining the Boston University faculty, he held various academic roles, including as a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and as an affiliate at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science, Professor Zervas ran a small information technology consultancy that provided software development services to a variety of clients.

Professor Jena is a health economist, practicing internal medicine physician, and professor of health care policy. His work involves several areas of health economics and policy, including the economics of medical innovation, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, and the economics of health care productivity. Professor Jena has been retained as an expert in several pharmaceutical and health care industry matters.

A prolific author, Professor Jena is the coauthor of the book Random Acts of Medicine, and he has contributed to more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and articles intended to increase patient understanding, published in outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on Harvard Medical School’s Standing Committee on Health Policy. Professor Jena is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award to fund research on the physician determinants of health care spending, quality, and patient outcomes, and a recipient of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) New Investigator Award. In 2018, he was listed among 100 great leaders in health care by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Ms. Pinheiro has an extensive background in quantitative analysis and data science, which she has applied to various practice areas, including finance, intellectual property, biostatistics, and antitrust. In finance, she focuses on cases involving allegations of market price manipulation, misleading communications, excessive mutual fund fees, and mortgage-backed securities litigation. In particular, she has been retained by the US Department of Justice, regulatory agencies, banking institutions, and market exchanges to consult, advise, and testify on matters involving allegations of spoofing and price manipulation, as well as corresponding detection approaches. She has also applied survey analysis and statistical modeling to various intellectual property cases, including patent disputes among smartphone manufacturers, copyright tariff setting for musical works, and patent infringement in the pharmaceutical industry. She has extensive experience analyzing clinical trial, registry, and insurance claims data for both litigation and research purposes and has published manuscripts on pharmacoeconomic issues. In the antitrust field, she has acted as an expert and supported other experts in class certification and price-fixing matters involving a wide range of industries, including online search engines, computer chips, liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels, airline ticketing services, gaming, and grocery stores. Ms. Pinheiro has also authored expert reports and testified on questions relating to the modeling and calculation of royalties and damages.

Prior to joining Analysis Group, Ms. Pinheiro served as executive director of the finance group of CIRANO, where she conducted applied research projects in collaboration with private and public partners, including work on hedge funds, style analysis, credit and operational risk, and the development of integrated risk management tools for practical applications.

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With more than 40 years of experience in financial services and real estate, Mr. Allen specializes in residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS), international real estate, and banking laws and regulations. He has provided depositions and directed litigation projects for some of the largest RMBS cases, on the topics of valuations, appraisals, Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), laws and regulations, and automated valuation models (AVMs). He also developed the first collateral risk scoring system that combines credit and collateral data to evaluate quality control and fraud prevention using advanced algorithms. Mr. Allen has provided diplomatic relations advice and assistance to central banks and other government agencies related to financial services and real estate, including the development and implementation of laws and regulations in many areas of the world – such as Eastern Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and North Africa. He has worked with various organizations including the US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance (OTA), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank. Mr. Allen is a frequent speaker on AVMs, appraisal principles and techniques, and federal banking regulations for organizations such as the American Bar Association, Mortgage Bankers Association, and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.

Mr. Deal leads the economic analyses in the Menlo Park, California office and helps coordinate the firm’s Insurance practice. He combines an economics and risk analysis background with many years of experience in economic, litigation, and management consulting. He serves as a testifying and consulting expert on a wide variety of matters, often involving economic and statistical analysis of large datasets. His work as an expert has covered a variety of practice areas, including antitrust, economic damages, class action matters, and business valuation. Mr. Deal’s experience includes work in health care, insurance, finance, technology, and many other industries. He has coauthored a number of book chapters and studies, including The Economic Effects of Federal Participation in Terrorism Risk with R. Glenn Hubbard, an Analysis Group academic affiliate, former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and former dean of the Columbia Business School.

Professor Slottje has deep experience in both academia and economic consulting. An emeritus professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, he has been working in litigation consulting for more than three decades in senior positions with several international firms. He has worked with many leading law firms, testifying at deposition and trial in hundreds of prominent matters.

An economist and a statistician, Professor Slottje is an expert in the fields of labor economics, consumer demand, industrial organization, and statistics and econometrics, allowing him to bring a unique perspective and skill set to his consulting assignments. He has published more than 150 journal articles and more than a dozen books, and has been ranked among the world’s top three scholars in applied econometrics based on his publishing record in the field. Professor Slottje is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, and The Econometric Society.

Mr. Porten is a Chartered Financial Analyst and investment expert with more than 30 years of experience in portfolio management of hedge funds and mutual funds, as well as due diligence procedures and fund compliance issues. He is familiar with the laws, regulations, and professional standards governing portfolio management and brings an extensive knowledge of broker-dealer, registered investment advisor, and bank trust environments. In investment-related litigation matters, he has examined portfolios for compatibility with investors' stated risk profiles and has sought to identify fiduciary improprieties by investment advisors, broker-dealers, and trustees. As an expert, he has been retained by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and has testified on behalf of major financial institutions and plaintiffs regarding fiduciary duty, analyst responsibilities, standards of care, due diligence, suitability, and supervision with respect to products such as mutual funds, hedge funds, ERISA accounts, and trust and investment portfolios. Mr. Porten's background includes senior roles at several leading financial institutions, including chief investment officer at both Citibank and IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust, and portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman. 

Ms. Kamerick is an expert in corporate governance, corporate finance, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). She has held CFO positions at a number of prominent firms – including BP Amoco (Americas), Heidrick & Struggles, and Houlihan Lokey – and served as a senior financial and legal advisor to major multinational corporations. Ms. Kamerick is a former M&A and securities attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. She has significant experience overseeing 401(k) and defined-benefit retirement plans, and chairing defined-benefit retirement plan investment committees. In addition to consulting on financial, strategic, and corporate governance matters, Ms. Kamerick serves on several boards, frequently acting as chair of the audit committee and as the board’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) financial expert. She also serves on the boards of the Legg Mason Closed-End Mutual Funds and the AIG Funds & Anchor Series Trust (a mutual fund complex). Ms. Kamerick is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and holds the NACD Directorship certification. She has held several adjunct professorships and lectured on corporate governance and fiduciary duties at numerous universities, as well as in NACD’s Battlefield to Boardroom program for flag officers. Ms. Kamerick is a frequent contributor to Agenda and Directors & Boards. She serves on the Alzheimer’s Association board of directors, as well as its audit and finance committees. In 2020, she was a judge for IR Magazine’s Corporate Governance Awards.

Professor Powers specializes in data privacy and cybersecurity policy and law. In his work, he draws on more than 20 years of combined legal, business, data privacy and security, national security, law enforcement, military, and academic experience. Professor Powers has served as an analyst and attorney for the US Department of Justice, the US Navy, the US Department of Defense, and a number of law firms, and as general counsel for an international software company. He regularly consults to government and private entities on data privacy and security programs; cybersecurity audits and assessments; cybersecurity strategies, risk, compliance, and frameworks; incident planning and response; and government investigations. Professor Powers created and oversees courses and certificates for Boston College’s graduate cybersecurity programs, including the Data Privacy: GDPR & HIPAA professional certificate program, and the Cybersecurity Policy: Privacy and Legal Requirements course. He is a member of the Boston College Law School Business Advisory Council and has provided expert commentary regarding cybersecurity, data privacy, and national security concerns for a wide variety of media outlets. Prior to joining Boston College, Professor Powers taught courses at the US Naval Academy. Previously, he was the panel lead for the Collegiate Working Group for the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. Professor Powers is a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Ms. Resch has extensive experience consulting on finance, financial economics, and accounting issues in complex litigations and arbitrations, with a particular focus on international arbitration. She is a testifying expert, specializing in the quantification of economic damages in both international arbitration and litigation. Ms. Resch has advised on valuation issues such as cost of capital and valuation discounts and premia. Her damages and valuation work has spanned disputes over complex financial instruments; oil and gas contracts; government expropriation matters; and shareholder disputes throughout the UK, Russia, Central Asia, and South America in both commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. She has also consulted on state aid proceedings in the banking industry and provided damages assessments in litigation matters before the UK High Court of Justice. Prior to joining Analysis Group, Ms. Resch was a partner and co-founder of an economics consulting firm.

Professor Knittel’s research focuses on industrial organization, applied econometrics, and energy and environmental economics. He has provided trial and deposition testimony in a number of litigation matters, including valuing product features in smartphones, PCs, and contact lenses. He has also consulted to Delta Airlines, Ford Motor Company, the US Energy Information Administration, and Korea Electric Power Company. Professor Knittel has authored or coauthored numerous articles on topics such as market structure and product pricing, tacit collusion, and challenges in merger simulation analysis. Examples of his research include articles on the spurious correlation between ethanol production and gasoline prices, unilateral market power in the electricity reserves market, and tacit collusion in credit card markets. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, and The Energy Journal, among other academic publications. He is a former coeditor of the Journal of Public Economics and serves or has served as an associate editor for several other scholarly journals, including the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, and The Journal of Energy Markets. Professor Knittel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Industrial Organization programs, and he co-directs the Environment and Energy Economics program.

Mr. Decter specializes in the application of microeconomics, finance, and data analysis to complex securities and antitrust litigation and business strategy cases, most notably in matters related to residential mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, residential mortgage lending, mortgage reinsurance, commercial insurance, private equity, and payment cards. He has conducted damages analyses, and supported multiple experts in the areas of statistical sampling, loan and securities underwriting, damages, and loss causation.

Mr. Decter's business litigation experience focuses on finance matters in which he has managed large case teams and data sets in working with testifying experts. He supported academic affiliates in their examination of class certification issues related to commonality, predominance, and causation in In re Countrywide Financial Corp. Mortgage Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, a mortgage marketing matter in which the plaintiff's motion for class certification was denied. Mr. Decter also supported an expert in filing a report on behalf of the defendants in New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund et al. v. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc et al., a case that marked the first major ruling on class certification among the numerous mortgage-backed securities actions pending in courts across the country at the time. He has also conducted damages analyses and worked with experts in numerous securities, antitrust, and intellectual property cases. Mr. Decter's business strategy engagements related to strategic pricing, portfolio management, and economic cost studies have spanned multiple industries, including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, information technology, and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Analysis Group, Mr. Decter was a management consultant in the telecommunications industry. He also has several years of telecommunications industry experience in strategic planning, business development, and product management. 

Professor Amir is an expert on consumer behavior – specifically, decision-making mechanisms and their influences on online and offline marketplaces, pricing and promotion strategies, and consumer preferences. His research has also addressed judgment, behavioral economics, risk and uncertainty, and the psychology of money. Professor Amir has been retained as an expert witness and testified at deposition in numerous cases, including consumer protection, trademark, and false advertising/packaging matters. He has also consulted to and conducted market research for companies in the life sciences, biotechnology, media, gaming, and defense industries. Professor Amir’s research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and Marketing Letters. He frequently speaks on these subjects at conferences and invited talks. Professor Amir has received research grants from the Marketing Science Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his work on consumer choice and reasoning. Prior to joining the Rady School of Management, he was on the faculty of the Yale School of Management.

Professor Grennan is an expert in economic analysis and policy specializing in the application of empirical industrial organization models to public policy and competitive strategy issues in health care markets. Additional topics he has researched include the interaction between negotiated prices and competition in business-to-business markets; innovation, regulation, and the adoption of new technologies; the ways in which regulatory and competitive forces shape innovation and market outcomes; and how the information available to market participants affects policy and strategy decisions. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and published in journals such as American Economic Review, Health Affairs, the Journal of Political Economy, The RAND Journal of Economics, and Management Science. Prior to joining the Haas School, Professor Grennan was on the faculties of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Economic Association, and The Econometric Society; a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Professor Keller is a marketing expert who specializes in the application of consumer psychology, information processing, and choice behavior to complex litigation matters involving claims of consumer confusion, false advertising, trademark infringement, and product liability, among other topics. She studies the application of social marketing principles and behavioral theory in consumer and employee contexts, with a focus on designing and implementing consumer communication programs. Professor Keller’s research has been used to assess consumer behavior and decision making and address how consumers incorporate and respond to information across a variety of settings and industries, including pharmaceuticals, health care, financial services, consumer products, law, employee benefits, and insurance. She regularly collaborates with academic and industry experts to inform government-sponsored research on physician and patient decision making for organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute on Aging.

Professor Keller has consulted to firms on US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) matters and worked on behalf of several government agencies, including the US Department of the Treasury and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her work has been published in several marketing journals, and she has also served on numerous journal editorial review boards. She has earned awards for designing effective communications related to health and savings from the Marketing Science Institute and the National Endowment for Financial Education, among others. Professor Keller’s research on decision making was cited by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team’s 2015 Annual Report for the White House on the use of behavioral science in the design of federal programs and policies. Professor Keller is a fellow of the Association for Consumer Research.

Dr. Sosa specializes in the economics of network industries, law and economics, and industrial organization. He has consulted to telecommunications and electric utility clients on a broad range of litigation and regulatory issues, including industry restructuring, technical standardization, operational and financial benchmarking, mergers and acquisitions, market power analysis, and competitive strategy. Dr. Sosa has served as an expert witness before several state and federal agencies, and has supported testifying experts in assessing the economic impacts of several high-profile mergers in the telecommunications industry. In other telecommunications work, Dr. Sosa has analyzed spectrum license acquisitions, wireless technology standards, and voice and data roaming markets. He has also consulted to telecommunications carriers in Latin America, Europe, and Asia on issues related to competition, regulation, and litigation. In addition, Dr. Sosa has performed damages and valuation analyses for clients in a broad range of litigation matters, including consumer class actions, intellectual property, employment, bankruptcy, and commercial contracts. He is a frequent public speaker and has published a number of articles in industry and professional journals, including Public Utilities Fortnightly, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. He is a member of the American Economic Association and Federal Communications Bar Association. Before joining Analysis Group, he consulted to the California Energy Commission and Telcordia.

Professor Prince, who is also a co-director of the Institute for Business Analytics at the Kelley School of Business, conducts research centered on industrial organization and applied econometrics, focusing on technology markets and telecommunications. He has published research on dynamic demand for computers, internet adoption and usage, the inception of online/offline product competition, telecommunications bundling, and the economics and regulation of digital platforms. He has consulted to clients, submitted expert reports, and testified in litigation on issues related to intellectual property valuation, damages, and antitrust. Professor Prince also has studied topics such as household-level risk aversion, airline quality competition, and regulation in health care and real estate markets. His research has appeared in leading economics and management journals, including the American Economic Review, the International Economic Review, The Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Management Science, and the Academy of Management Journal. Professor Prince is currently a coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and is on the board of editors at Information Economics and Policy.

From 2019 to 2020, Professor Prince served a one-year appointment as chief economist for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where he advised on economic policy, auction design, data analytics, and antitrust matters. He also helped spearhead the FCC’s public comments on the update to the Federal Trade Commission’s Vertical Merger Guidelines.

Ms. Samuelson is an expert in antitrust, finance, and valuation, combining more than 30 years of experience applying economic and financial analysis to complex legal disputes with five years of experience as a practicing trial attorney. A key aspect of Ms. Samuelson’s work is the direction of economic analyses for merger review, regulatory investigations, and large private litigations. Working with affiliate David Dranove on behalf of the US Department of Justice, she led the case team that successfully challenged the proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. She has managed economic analyses related to antitrust issues in more than 100 matters during her career, including numerous government, competitor, and consumer matters on behalf of MasterCard over more than two decades, and on behalf of Microsoft during a similar period. Ms. Samuelson has also provided analysis of issues of class certification, liability, and damages in a broad set of technology- and financial services-related cases, and has analyzed economic issues related to government investigations and mergers involving companies in technology and health care. She has served as an expert in many phases of litigation, including development of economic and financial models; preparation of testimony; development, presentation, and review of pretrial discovery; and critique of economic and financial analyses of opposing experts.

A frequent speaker on topics in antitrust and competition, the role of economics in litigation, and leadership, Ms. Samuelson has presented before a number of legal audiences and at leading academic institutions, including the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Antitrust Section Annual Spring Meeting, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)’s Annual Antitrust Law Section Meeting, the Yale School of Management, the University of Chicago Law School, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has also participated in numerous legal and economic conferences and seminars. In one representative example, Ms. Samuelson moderated a panel at the US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice joint public workshop on most-favored nation clauses, and subsequently coauthored an article on the program in the ABA Antitrust Section Joint Conduct Committee’s newsletter. Ms. Samuelson was named as one of Global Competition Review’s Women in Antitrust 2016, and she is frequently included in the International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers/Economists. She has served as a vice chair of the ABA’s Trial Practice Committee of Antitrust Law.

In addition to her economic consulting work, Ms. Samuelson serves as CEO and Chairman of Analysis Group, one of the largest economic consulting firms in the United States. She previously served as President and CEO (beginning in 2004), and prior to that as co-CEO (beginning in 1998). Since joining Analysis Group in 1992, Ms. Samuelson has played a key role in the company’s growth and diversification and has brought significant new clients, academic affiliates, and professional staff to the firm. Under her guidance, Analysis Group has been named (by Vault) as one of the top 50 consulting firms in the US for several years running. In Massachusetts, the firm has been consistently named in the annual Top Places to Work ranking by The Boston Globe, and the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts listing by the Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine. Ms. Samuelson is also the chair of the Boston Medical Center Hospital Board of Trustees.

Professor Levinsohn is an expert in antitrust, industrial organization, and econometrics. He has provided expert reports and testimony in several landmark antitrust and regulatory matters, including In re: TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation, In re: Vitamins Antitrust Litigation, In re: New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation, and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement proceedings. He has also consulted to numerous foreign governments and international organizations.

Professor Levinsohn conducts research in industrial organization, applied econometrics, international economics, and development economics. He has served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Professor Levinsohn was the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

Mr. Egland has worked on a wide range of assignments related to litigation, internal corporate consulting, and government investigations for over 35 years. He specializes in financial economics, statistical sampling, and the economics of competition. Mr. Egland directs the firm’s risk management practice, which provides comprehensive risk audits of investment portfolios. He has presented Analysis Group’s work to government regulatory agencies, to corporate boards, and in court. He has led several teams evaluating claims of excessive fees in the mutual fund industry and on ERISA cases involving the reasonableness of fees charged to 401(k) plan participants. In addition, Mr. Egland has worked on several studies assessing the risk profiles of investment portfolios. In Florida State Board of Administration v. Alliance Capital Management, he led a case team that supported six external experts in a landmark trial victory, in which a Florida jury found Alliance Capital not liable for the losses incurred by the Florida Retirement System pension fund as a result of Alliance Capital’s investments in Enron stock. He also led a case team on behalf of American Century Investments in one of the largest mutual fund excessive fee actions ever filed, which was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs before trial. Mr. Egland is a CFA charterholder.

Professor Bail is widely recognized for his work in computational social science, which uses tools from data science to predict human behavior. His work leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to examine substantive issues ranging from social media to consumer protection, bot detection, and digital forensics. Professor Bail’s research has led to new social media products and informed government legislation on the regulation of the technology sector in the US and internationally. He has served as an expert witness in litigation concerning a major social media company. Professor Bail’s work has been published in Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as profiled in several media outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, NBC Nightly News, and the BBC. He is also the editor of the Oxford University Press Series in Computational Social Science. Professor Bail is the founder of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science and helped launch Duke University’s interdisciplinary data science master’s program. He is a Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellow and has been awarded the Science Breakthrough of the Year Award by the Falling Walls Foundation. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, Professor Bail was the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar at the University of Michigan, as well as a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the National Foundation of Political Science at Sciences Po.

 A co-founder of Analysis Group, Inc., Dr. Stangle is an economist specializing in the fields of industrial organization and finance. He has over 40 years of experience directing large research projects in numerous industries on issues related to antitrust, regulation, bankruptcy, ERISA, and securities matters, and has consulted to firms on various management, strategy, and policy issues. Dr. Stangle has provided testimony on class certification, market definition, entry conditions, competitive effects, securities valuation, and damages. He is a trustee emeritus of Bates College and a former outside member of the board of directors of Wellington Trust Company, NA, a money management firm. Dr. Stangle also occasionally serves on the boards of startup firms, and was formerly a director of a mutual fund and a venture capital firm.  

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Mr. Grien is a managing director and head of the Finance and Restructuring Advisory Group at TM Capital Corp. He has nearly 30 years of experience in finance, specializing in leveraged finance. He has extensive experience committing debt capital to leveraged transactions and an in-depth knowledge of the leveraged finance market, having committed to and executed multiple billions of dollars in debt facilities spanning several hundred transactions. Mr. Grien's areas of expertise include complex financial structuring, restructuring, due diligence, credit analysis, valuations, and market pricing. He does a significant amount of work as an expert witness; his areas of expertise include due diligence, credit analysis, deal structuring and negotiation, workouts, valuation, and market pricing.

Prior to joining TM Capital, Mr. Grien was a senior managing director and head of the Leveraged Finance Group at Deerfield Capital Management, where he served as president of Deerfield Capital Corp. and oversaw the firm's direct middle market lending activities, which included originating and executing nearly $1 billion in first lien, second lien, and mezzanine loans.

Previously, he held several positions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., including chief credit officer of the Investment Banking and Leveraged Finance Departments and chairman of the Credit Commitment Committee. He was also a founding partner of DLJ Strategic Partners, an $830 million private equity secondary fund, and a cofounder and chief operating officer of the Kelso Mezzanine Fund, a private equity fund focused on mezzanine loans.

Professor Kiesling is an expert in energy and regulatory economics, energy history, energy market design, and technology in the development of energy markets, with a particular interest in the electricity industry. Her research focuses on electricity policy and market design issues related to regulation and technological change; the economics of smart grid technologies; and the interaction of market design and innovation in the development of retail energy markets, products, and services. Professor Kiesling has provided expert testimony in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the California Public Utilities Commission, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and the New York Public Service Commission. She teaches at economics workshops for regulators, and lectures to academic, industrial, and regulatory groups about regulatory policy, institutional change, and the economic analysis of electric power market design. Professor Kiesling is the author of two books and numerous articles, book chapters, policy studies, and public interest comments. She serves on the Electricity Advisory Committee for the US Department of Energy, as well as the Academic Advisory Council for the UK Institute of Economic Affairs. Previously, Professor Kiesling was a visiting associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and held positions in the economics departments of Purdue University and Northwestern University.

Professor Oyer is an expert in the economics of organizations and human resource practices. In the field of personnel economics, he has undertaken several studies on how organizations pay and provide incentives for their workers. He has also examined how salespeople and executives react to incentive systems and why some firms use broad-based stock option programs. In addition, he has conducted research on how firms have adjusted their human resource practices in response to legal barriers for dismissing workers. His current research projects focus on how companies identify and recruit workers in highly-skilled and competitive labor markets. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Finance. Professor Oyer is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor Economics. Prior to joining Stanford, he was on the faculty of the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. In his pre-academic life, Professor Oyer worked for the management consulting firm Booz, Allen and Hamilton, as well as for 3Com Corporation and ASK Computer Systems.

Professor Pindyck is a leading industrial organization economist and testifying witness in the areas of antitrust and intellectual property. His research and writing have covered topics in microeconomics and industrial organization, the behavior of resource and commodity markets, financial markets, and econometric modeling and forecasting. His recent work in economics and finance has examined the determinants of market structure and market power, the dynamics of commodity spot and futures markets, criteria for investing in risky projects, the role of R&D, and the value of patents. He has received many academic honors, including several awards for outstanding teaching, and holds senior editorial positions with a number of publications. Professor Pindyck has consulted to dozens of public and private organizations, including the Federal Trade Commission, IBM, and AT&T, and has been deposed and/or testified in over a dozen cases in diverse industries such as food, energy, software, medical devices, and airlines. He has worked with Analysis Group on many of these cases, including the Lotus v. Borland litigation, in which Professor Pindyck used econometric modeling techniques to identify the economic value of various attributes and isolated the value of the infringing features. He also worked with Analysis Group in a major litigation matter involving price-fixing allegations, in which he examined allegations of accumulation of buying power and the resulting effects on negotiations with suppliers.

Dr. Tierney is an expert on energy policy and economics, specializing in the electric and gas industries. She has consulted to companies, governments, nonprofits, and other organizations on energy markets, as well as economic and environmental regulation and strategy. Her expert witness and business consulting services have involved industry restructuring, market analyses, utility ratemaking and regulatory policy, clean energy regulatory policy, transmission issues, wholesale and retail market design, and resource planning and procurement. Dr. Tierney is a former assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Energy, state cabinet officer for environmental affairs, and state public utility commissioner. She chairs the board of directors of Resources for the Future; serves on the external advisory board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and is a member of the boards of directors of the World Resources Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and other organizations. She has published widely, frequently speaks at industry conferences, and has lectured at many leading universities.

Professor Baker is an expert in health care economics, including the effects of regulation on health care markets, physician market structure, the effects of managed care and insurance market competition on health care delivery and spending, and the determinants and impact of medical technology adoption. He has served as a consultant and advisor to health plans, government programs and public initiatives, and firms providing health care services and developing new health care products. Professor Baker’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Health Economics. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the recipient of the American Society of Health Economists’ ASHEcon Medal, which recognizes the top American health economists age 40 or under. Professor Baker’s studies of the relationships between area characteristics and health care delivery have twice won the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award. 

Mr. Ellman specializes in the application of microeconomics, statistics, and financial analysis to complex commercial litigation matters and government investigations. He has worked on behalf of the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and has consulted to law firms in litigation and regulatory matters involving antitrust and competition, drug safety and product liability, intellectual property, data breaches, and general commercial damages issues. Mr. Ellman has conducted market analyses and assessments of competitive effects in major antitrust matters, as well as for proposed and executed mergers. He has also conducted statistical analysis, market research, and other economic analyses to evaluate the appropriateness of class certification in antitrust and commercial disputes, and to assess liability and damages. Mr. Ellman’s expertise in matters involving the pharmaceutical and medical device industries includes analyzing therapeutic markets and competitive dynamics; assessing evidence of causal associations in product liability suits; and conducting statistical analyses of market surveillance, clinical trial, and observational study data to evaluate the comparative effectiveness, safety, and dosing patterns of different treatments across a variety of therapeutic categories. He has published articles on a wide range of topics, including the assessment of causation and harm in data breach litigation, the appropriate analysis and interpretation of post-marketing surveillance data in product liability cases, and the economics of biosimilar drugs.

Professor Lambrecht is an expert in digital marketing and consumer behavior. Her research focuses on marketing decisions in digital environments – emphasizing online targeting, advertising, promotion, and pricing. In the context of digital marketing, Professor Lambrecht has examined how firms can use retargeting to reach out to consumers; how firms can advertise on Twitter to early trend propagators; the role of position effects on information displayed to consumers online; and, more broadly, the value of big data for firms. In her online pricing work, Professor Lambrecht examines the economics of pricing online services and online promotions, such as daily deals or cashback promotions.

Recently published research explores the role of economics in the context of apparent algorithmic biases. Currently, Professor Lambrecht is studying the value of top positions in organic search results and how users contribute to crowdfunding campaigns. In an additional research stream on price discrimination in service industries, she has focused on the use of multi-part tariffs by service providers such as telecom companies.

Professor Lambrecht has published a number of articles in leading academic journals, such as Marketing Science, Management Science, and the Journal of Marketing Research. Among other awards, she has received the American Marketing Association's Paul E. Green Award and has recently been selected as the winner of the prestigious William F. O'Dell Award. In addition, Professor Lambrecht has held several editorial roles at prominent academic publications.

Professor Reuter specializes in examining the behavior of individual investors and financial institutions, including mutual fund families, investment banks, rating agencies, financial advisors, and the financial media. His work focuses on the value of financial advice, the strategic behavior of target-date retirement funds, and portfolio management outsourcing in the mutual fund industry. In addition to his academic experience, Professor Reuter has served as an expert in a mutual fund fee litigation, filing an expert report and testifying at deposition. He has also provided testimony to the US Department of Labor (DOL), which summarized his research on the behavior of brokers and broker-sold mutual funds.

Professor Reuter has published a number of articles on topics such as mutual fund performance, the effect of pension design on employer costs and employee retirement choices, and the effect of advertising on product reviews. This research has been published in leading academic journals, including The Journal of Finance and The Quarterly Journal of Economics; mentioned in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; and cited by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the DOL. Professor Reuter also serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a fellow at the TIAA Institute.

Mr. Starfield specializes in the direction and management of large-scale cases involving complex economic and financial issues. For more than two decades, he has conducted economic analysis and managed case teams in support of leading academic experts in a range of cases, notably a number of matters involving complex securities, including residential mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps. In matters related to the Lehman bankruptcy, he supported multiple experts in assignments related to structured financial products, secured financing, collateral management, derivatives risk exposure, complex accounting topics, and the causes of Lehman's failure. He also managed case teams in the Enron-related litigations involving some of the major settlements emerging from the Enron bankruptcy. In addition, he has worked on a broad range of cases in the investment management area, including numerous matters involving alleged violations of Sections 10b-5 and 11, in which he provided management of many dimensions of financial and economic analysis, including market efficiency, loss causation and materiality, and damages. Mr. Starfield also worked with mutual fund companies, boards, and regulators in some of the most prominent market timing matters. He managed all aspects of financial and economic analysis in a fraudulent conveyance litigation involving one of the largest bank failures in US history, including identification and support of numerous academic expert witnesses who testified on the economics of the banking industry; conditions in real estate markets; the management, operation, and regulation of nationally chartered commercial banks and bank holding companies; and factors that led to bank failures.

He has conducted analyses and served as an expert in numerous matters involving commercial disputes, and also has significant experience in the valuation of large, closely held companies.

In his role as an expert, Mr. Starfield has developed economic and financial models; prepared testimony; developed, presented, and reviewed pretrial discovery; and evaluated the economic and financial analyses of opposing experts. He has provided support to successful testimony on numerous topics involving economics in both bench and jury trials. Outside of litigation, he has assisted clients in a variety of industries with development of business plans and financial projections, frequently involving the use of complex integrated financial models. Formerly a senior manager in the Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery Services group of Price Waterhouse, Mr. Starfield is a chartered accountant of South Africa, a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom.

Professor Hanemann is a leading authority on the economics of water, climate change, and non-market valuation, and played a major role in the development of both revealed and stated preference methodologies for non-market valuation. Professor Hanemann has provided expert reports and testimony in high-profile natural resource damages litigation matters, including several involving water pollution, and coauthored expert reports on the economic value of lost recreation and on non-use value damages resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the BP oil spill. He also gave extensive deposition and trial testimony as an expert witness on natural resource damages in the American Trader oil spill in California. Professor Hanemann has experience as a consultant and technical advisor to water resource agencies. In addition to many publications on natural resource damages and the economics of water, he has written about the determinants of urban water use, price and rate structures in urban water demand management and planning, economic institutions and increasing water scarcity, and urban water-rate design based on marginal cost. In 2003, he founded the California Climate Change Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and directed it until 2008. Professor Hanemann is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Reibstein’s research focuses on competitive marketing strategies, metrics, and product line decisions, among other topics. He has provided marketing management education and consulting research to companies in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries, among others. His consulting activities have included numerous applications of conjoint analysis and other survey techniques in engagements spanning a wide range of products. Professor Reibstein has submitted expert reports and provided testimony on marketing and marketing research in several litigation matters, including analyses of smartphone features in a patent dispute, health claims in a false advertising dispute, and pharmaceutical detailing in a co-marketing dispute.

His recent work includes assessing strategies to address competitors’ reactions to marketing actions and developing metrics that link marketing decisions to financial consequences, which was published in his book, Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance. Professor Reibstein is also the author or coauthor of numerous books and chapters in books on subjects including competitive marketing strategy, global branding, and marketing performance measurement. Professor Reibstein has also written several papers on conjoint analysis and its validity and reliability. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Marketing Science, the Journal of Marketing Research, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing.  

Professor Reibstein has been honored with more than 30 teaching and publishing awards, including the John S. Day Distinguished Alumni Academic Service Award from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management. He has served as the chairman of the American Marketing Association board of directors and as the executive director of the Marketing Science Institute.

Ms. Arcelus specializes in analyses of complex problems in business litigation from technology, economic, and financial perspectives. Her litigation experience includes all aspects of diverse litigation matters. Ms. Arcelus frequently works with an extensive network of experts from leading universities, as well as distinguished industry experts, to apply innovative and established techniques to her engagements.

In more than three decades at Analysis Group, she has managed high-profile litigation projects across a variety of areas, including antitrust and competition, intellectual property, data protection and privacy, technology, cybersecurity, biometric data, algorithm use, regulatory compliance, impact of misleading information technology, and contract disputes. Her work often involves leading companies in technology-intensive industries such as digital platforms, biotech, engineer systems, computer hardware, and software. Ms. Arcelus has worked on cases in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.

Ms. Arcelus has also worked on securities class action cases involving institutional responsibility and investor knowledge; energy litigation projects involving contract and price disputes; labor litigation involving no-poach agreements; and health care consulting projects involving the statistical modeling of clinical outcomes, pharmacoeconomic analyses, and strategic financial analyses.

Mr. Beach has more than 30 years of experience valuing businesses; rendering fairness opinions; and negotiating, structuring, and closing mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financings, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. During his career, he has closed over 100 M&A transactions and over 100 financings for companies in the technology, health care, consumer products, and financial services industries. He has frequently served as an expert witness in complex litigation matters involving shareholder rights and valuation, and has testified several times in Delaware Chancery Court. As founder and president of Business Consulting Group, LLC, Mr. Beach oversees the firm’s valuation and advisory work for corporate transactions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Beach was head of corporate finance for KPMG and head of investment banking at Advest, Inc. In addition, he was president and co-founder of Boston Corporate Finance, a boutique investment banking firm focused on providing M&A, capital-raising, and general advisory services to global companies in the technology sector. He has served on the board of numerous companies and organizations, and has advised many companies on their strategic development and direction. Mr. Beach has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, Cornell University, and Dartmouth College. He has been a certified public accountant and is a registered principal with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Mr. Fink specializes in the application of economic analyses to complex business litigation matters. He has provided expert support in a broad range of cases, including antitrust matters, intellectual property (IP) cases, general business litigation, and regulatory proceedings. Mr. Fink has experience supporting experts across a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, high tech, agriculture, and media and entertainment. His case work has included antitrust claims against brand and generic drug manufacturers involving allegations of reverse-payment settlements, IP disputes involving biologic and biosimilar pharmaceutical manufacturers, and restraint of trade allegations involving exclusive licensing in the cosmetics industry. He has assisted attorneys, academic affiliates, and industry experts in all phases of complex litigation, including pretrial discovery, case strategy, expert reports, deposition support, and trial preparation.

Professor Mayzlin’s research focuses on how businesses manage social interactions, advertising, and communication strategies, including word of mouth and social media. She has filed expert reports and testified at deposition in marketing-related litigation matters, including testimony in a lawsuit involving the way a major e-commerce company aggregated product reviews. In another case, she analyzed allegations that the plaintiff’s competitor had posted fake negative reviews on its Yelp page. Professor Mayzlin has written numerous scholarly articles on social media management, the manipulation of online reviews, measuring online word of mouth, and online influencers. She is also an associate editor at Marketing Science. Her work has earned several awards, including the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award, and been cited more than 15,000 times on Google Scholar. A frequent speaker, Professor Mayzlin has provided keynote addresses at academic conferences worldwide, including the Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference and the Interactive Marketing Research Conference. She has co-chaired and presented at the Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the USC Marshall School, where she teaches undergraduate, M.B.A., and doctoral courses, Professor Mayzlin served on the faculty of the Yale School of Management.

Dr. Strombom is an expert in applied microeconomics, finance, and quantitative and statistical analysis. He provides assistance to attorneys in all phases of pretrial and trial practice, prepares economic and financial models, and provides expert testimony in litigation and public policy matters. Dr. Strombom has conducted assessments of class certification, liability, and damages issues in cases involving antitrust, breach of contract, ERISA, false advertising, intellectual property, labor and employment, product liability, securities, and general commercial disputes.

Prior to joining Analysis Group, Dr. Strombom was Executive Vice President of a middle-market merger and acquisition firm, where he managed a financial and market research organization that provided valuation and consulting services to over 500 privately held companies annually. Previously, he was Consulting Manager at Price Waterhouse, where he provided litigation support and value enhancement consulting services, and Senior Financial Analyst at the Tribune Company, where he evaluated capital projects and acquisition candidates.

Mr. Richard has more than 20 years of experience in institutional money management. He was a founder of Taurus Horizon Fund, where he was a managing partner and fund manager for the strategy. Previously, he served at State Street Global Advisors as a senior fixed-income portfolio manager. The assets under his management exceeded $15 billion dollars. Mr. Richard's investment expertise spans a variety of security types, including unsecured corporate credit and securitized structures (such as ABS, MBS, CMBS, and CDO). Over his career, Mr. Richard has also taken an active role in trading securities and performing due-diligence credit work on underlying collateral.

Mr. Richard has provided expert reports, rebuttal reports, deposition testimony, and trial testimony in a number of securities-related cases, opining on issues related to valuation, portfolio manager due diligence, investment suitability, and market conditions, among others. He has served as an expert witness in securities litigation in which he analyzed structured investment vehicles (SIV) on behalf of a large investment bank, and has opined on issues related to the residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) market. He has also provided consulting services on matters related to auction-rate securities and embedded swap agreements within structured finance instruments. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Professor Riddiough is best known for his work on real options, mortgage pricing and strategy, REITs, and land use regulation. He has served as an expert in numerous real estate-related matters, in which he has testified on appraisal and the value of distressed mortgages. Professor Riddiough has consulted to numerous organizations, including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, GMAC, Wells Fargo, Coldwell Banker Commercial, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. He has published more than 40 scholarly articles. He has served on the boards of directors of several organizations, including ArCap REIT, EquiBase Capital Partners, and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Professor Riddiough is the recipient of best dissertation and best paper awards in real estate economics, and is a fellow at the Real Estate Research Institute and a past fellow at the Homer Hoyt Institute. He teaches courses in real estate finance, real estate capital markets, and microeconomics.

Mr. Gold has more than 20 years of experience applying economics, finance, and statistics to litigation matters. He has been involved in all phases of the litigation process, from pretrial discovery to expert report and trial preparation. Mr. Gold has led teams supporting experts and assisted counsel on a variety of securities, commercial litigation, and intellectual property matters.

Mr. Gold has extensive experience consulting on securities matters, including analyzing market efficiency, estimating damages, conducting event studies, and analyzing potential settlements. He has also submitted expert declarations in civil and criminal securities fraud matters. His experience includes cases involving securities and financial derivatives such as swaps, structured notes, mortgage-backed securities, convertible preferred stock, and options. Mr. Gold has worked on antitrust matters involving the trading of securities, and he has conducted assessments of class certification in cases involving securities fraud, product liability, and false advertising, including analyzing whether liability or damages can be assessed using common proof. His work spans industries such as financial services, legal services, telecommunications, entertainment, health care, and oil and gas. He is the coauthor of “Federal Securities Acts and Areas of Expert Analysis” in the Litigation Services Handbook.

Professor Blanchard’s research combines experiments with observational data analyses to study how consumers make complex decisions about finance and technology. He serves as a marketing and research expert in commercial litigation and advises financial services and technology companies on business strategies and research. Professor Blanchard is the director of Georgetown’s M.B.A. Certificate in Consumer Analytics and Insights program, and he teaches courses on research design, surveys, and quantitative analyses to undergraduate, graduate, and executive education program students. He has been named among the best 40 business professors under 40 by Poets&Quants, and a Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute. 

Professor Blanchard is an associate editor of the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and he has published articles in a number of prominent marketing journals. Professor Blanchard’s research and perspectives on consumer finances and technology have been featured in media outlets such as Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, NerdWallet, The New York Times, Marketplace, and NBC News. In addition to serving on the Georgetown faculty, he served as a member of the American Marketing Association’s Academic Council, and held visiting positions at Dartmouth College and Columbia University.  

Ms. Mills is an expert in US and international accounting and financial reporting issues, with over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. As the founder and president of Accounting Policy Plus, she has a deep knowledge of accounting issues in complex transactions and a strong track record of developing, implementing, and applying new accounting policies. Ms. Mills also has an extensive record as an expert witness, and has testified and filed expert reports on issues that include hedge accounting, structured transactions, securitizations, variable-interest entities, repurchase agreements, and the valuation of a complex portfolio of derivatives.

Prior to founding Accounting Policy Plus, Ms. Mills was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where she oversaw the financial reporting and accounting policy departments. In that role, she spearheaded major policy implementation initiatives and met regularly with senior policymakers at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Reserve System, the US Department of the Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Ms. Mills also advised business units on structuring trades, oversaw SEC reporting and accounting compliance, and developed comprehensive training in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for all finance personnel. She held a similar role at Merrill Lynch, where she also implemented a Sarbanes-Oxley governance framework and designed internal control requirements. Ms. Mills is a certified public accountant (CPA).

Dr. Chakraborty is an economist with an extensive background in economics, finance, accounting, and valuation. She has been retained both as an expert witness and as a consultant in a number of matters involving equity and fixed income securities, valuation, solvency, fraudulent conveyance, and economic damages. Dr. Chakraborty has conducted analyses in matters involving bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), tax and transfer pricing, international arbitrations, fraud, and theft of trade secrets and misappropriation. Her work has involved the development of financial and economic models, the evaluation of large datasets, and the application of statistical methods to a variety of complex problems. She has worked on matters involving companies in many industries, including financial services, energy, retail, and pharmaceuticals.

Mr. Hille has more than 30 years of experience in investment management. In his former role as chief investment officer at Texas Christian University (TCU), he was responsible for the day-to-day management of its multibillion-dollar investment program, which includes the operation and fiduciary oversight of the university’s endowment assets. His responsibilities also included implementing approved investment policies; developing investment processes and procedures for risk management and asset allocation, monitoring, and evaluation; investment manager selection and termination; and identifying management strategies to improve the program’s investment performance and efficiency. Prior to joining TCU, Mr. Hille was chief investment officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the state’s largest public pension plan. Earlier in his career, he managed portfolios for the Employees Retirement System of Texas. He currently serves on the investment advisory and trustee boards of the Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, as well as on the board of trustees of the Communities Foundation of Texas. Mr. Hille has served as president of the Austin Society of Financial Analysts and as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.

Mr. Richardson has more than 30 years of experience as a senior executive at institutional asset management firms, most recently as executive director of client service and business development and member of the global management team at Impax Asset Management Group. Throughout his career, Mr. Richardson has been responsible for overseeing the management of institutional investment portfolios of fixed-income, listed equity, and private securities. During the final decade of his tenure as head of Impax’s North American business, these portfolios were managed with a particular focus on the role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment management decisions. He has consulted to public and private companies in numerous industries, including financial services and insurance, on investment, governance, and compliance matters. Mr. Richardson has had oversight of a full range of investment portfolios offered through different fund vehicles, including 40 Act funds, commingled funds, collective trust funds, limited partnerships, and segregated accounts. He has been responsible for client, asset, and revenue growth, as well as new product initiatives and M&A. Mr. Richardson testified at deposition and trial, and has contributed to articles on sustainable investments for media outlets such as the Financial Times, The New York Times, and CNBC. Prior to his work with Impax, he co-founded Global Energy Investors, a private equity infrastructure firm, and Dwight Asset Management, an institutional fixed-income investment firm that was subsequently acquired by Goldman Sachs. He serves as a member of the Global Leadership Council for the World Resources Institute, and as a member of the President’s Council for Ceres. Mr. Richardson is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Gorin has more than 30 years of experience as a strategy and economic consultant with deep expertise in the health care, chemicals, oil and gas, agriculture, and automotive industries. He leads large, complex engagements in antitrust matters, health care strategy, and large commercial litigation cases, providing direct leadership at every stage of engagement, from strategy to implementation. In addition to his own expert work, Mr. Gorin regularly identifies and collaborates with leading academic and industry affiliates. Mr. Gorin's unique experience across industries and practices allows him to leverage his complementary strategic, economic, and specific subject matter expertise to provide pragmatic solutions to address clients' complex business and legal challenges. 

Mr. Gorin's work in antitrust and competition cases has included the analysis of alleged anticompetitive behavior and the evaluation of the competitive impact of mergers and acquisitions in strategic, regulatory, and litigation contexts. In these cases, Mr. Gorin has defined and analyzed relevant markets, assessed potential or past competitive impact, simulated the outcome of mergers and acquisitions in the marketplace, and evaluated potential antitrust remedies. As a leading expert in Analysis Group's Health Care Strategy practice, Mr. Gorin works with diagnostic innovators and manufacturers to develop acquisition and growth strategies, create plans to achieve favorable coverage and reimbursement in the United States and international markets, and design and implement evidence development strategies to support coverage and reimbursement goals. In commercial litigation cases, he regularly leads teams and experts to support clients in matters related to liability and damages, such as valuation, economic harm, accounting, corporate governance, and organizational performance and culture. 

Prior to joining Analysis Group, Mr. Gorin was a partner in the worldwide Energy, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals Group at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.

Professor Schoar is an expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to household finance and financial intermediation. Her research examines returns and capital flows in the venture capital industry, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises and startup firms, and the role of consumer financial markets. Professor Schoar has served as an expert witness in cases involving commercial litigation and financial services. She is co-organizer of the Corporate Finance Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a former member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Academic Research Council, and co-founder and scientific director of ideas42, a research lab on behavioral social science. She has published numerous articles and papers and received several awards for her research, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and the Brattle Group Prize in Corporate Finance for her paper “The Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity.” She has served as an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Professor Schoar’s work has been featured in The Economist, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Ugone specializes in the application of economic principles to complex business disputes and is experienced in economic and damages-related analyses. He has provided financial and economic consulting services in cases involving antitrust, breach of contract, class certification, intellectual property, professional negligence, and securities-related issues. Dr. Ugone has frequently evaluated lost profits and valuation-related issues using large databases and complex computer models.

Dr. Ugone has constructed or evaluated damages models that have included such components as lost sales analyses, incremental cost analyses, assessments of profitability, assessments of the capacity to produce additional units, the competitive business environment in which a damage claim is made, claimed lost business value, and claimed reasonable royalties. He has performed economic liability analyses in antitrust matters including defining relevant markets, assessing market power, and evaluating alleged anticompetitive behavior. In consumer product class action matters, Dr. Ugone has addressed economic- and damages-related issues relating to classwide proof of claimed economic harm and price premium claims, including analyses of demand drivers affecting consumer purchase decisions and product pricing patterns observed at wholesale and retail levels. With respect to patent infringement matters, he has performed lost profits-related and reasonable royalty-related analyses.

Dr. Ugone has testified at trial and in deposition more than 500 times.

Mr. Bodington specializes in the business and finance aspects of the electric power industry. He is the founder of a boutique investment banking firm that has provided M&A, financing, and restructuring advisory services to the energy sector for more than 25 years. Mr. Bodington has played a key role in more than 100 transactions with an aggregate value of more than $7 billion. In these engagements, he has led the purchase and sale of interests in power projects; arranged debt and equity financing for energy projects in development, construction, and operation; and advised owners and lenders on various capitalization, value, repayment, restructuring, and management issues. His clients include industrial companies, independent power companies, equity investors, lenders, utility affiliates, and regulated utilities. 

Mr. Bodington is also a seasoned expert witness who has provided testimony for clients on finance and damages issues. Prior to founding Bodington & Company, he spent eight years with Bechtel Group and four years with an international management consulting firm. Mr. Bodington is the author of more than 50 articles on a variety of economic and financial topics relevant to the energy sector. He holds Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Series 7, 24, 63, 79, and 99 licenses.

Dr. Chawla has more than 25 years of experience as an economist in the health care sector. Since joining Analysis Group in 2007, she has helped global biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device manufacturers - as well as development-stage companies - address product development and commercialization objectives, particularly as they relate to market access. Her work has spanned a wide range of therapeutic areas, including multiple indications in oncology. Her recent client work includes landscape assessments, economic modeling, and strategic plans to inform evidence generation in the context of product development and market access launch strategy; forecasts to help prioritize research and support licensing and venture funding discussions; payer research and advisory boards; and launch materials that communicate a product's clinical and economic value to support evidence-based reviews. Dr. Chawla recently led an engagement comprising a fully integrated market access strategy and related tactics to support the launch of a novel drug to treat an orphan disease.

Dr. Chawla's recent publications include an assessment of the impact of regulatory requirements for cardiovascular risk evaluation for diabetes therapies. She has served as a reviewer or referee for several journals, including Value in Health, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Prior to joining Analysis Group, she was head of the health economics and outcomes research department at Genentech, Inc., where she also supported the oncology franchise.

Dr. Robbins is a pharmaceutical and biotech executive with over 40 years of broad-based industry experience. In his role at Kodiak Strategic Consultants, he consults to a diverse group of pharmaceutical and biotech companies on clinical, regulatory, business development, and licensing issues. Dr. Robbins served as a CEO in residence at the University of Minnesota’s Office for Technology Commercialization and co-founded several biotech ventures. He is actively involved with a number of startups, including GigaMune, Neuropharma Meds, and Diastol Therapeutics. He served as the COO of Bullet Biotechnology, regulatory strategic advisor to GigaGen, and acting CEO of GigaMune, all of which have focused on novel immunotherapies targeting cancer and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Robbins has served as an expert in multiple antitrust matters, intellectual property cases, and contract disputes, and provided testimony at deposition, trial, and arbitration. Prior to his consulting career, he held several senior-level positions at brand and generic pharmaceutical companies, where he was responsible for the development of regulatory and clinical strategies that led to numerous new drug application (NDA), biologics license application (BLA), and abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) approvals by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He has conducted analyses in therapeutic areas that include cardiology, oncology, endocrine/metabolic, women’s health, infectious diseases, radiology, and nuclear medicine and diagnostics. In addition, Dr. Robbins has experience assisting biotech startups with strategy and financing. He holds adjunct professorships in pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Robbins serves on the Antitrust Council of the Minnesota State Bar Association.

Professor Mizik is an expert in marketing strategy, valuation of intangibles, earnings management, and executive compensation in a range of industries, including health care. Her research centers on examining the consequences of marketing strategies and activities on financial performance, developing new metrics for marketing assets, and building empirical models to assess the value of intangible marketing assets. Professor Mizik has developed econometric analyses of sales, examined issues related to brand valuation, and researched evidence of real activity and accounting manipulations to artificially inflate reported earnings. She has served as an expert witness for a major pharmaceutical company in a false advertising case. Professor Mizik has published articles in a number of academic marketing and management journals. Prior to joining the Foster School, she served on the faculties of Columbia Business School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a past member of the American Marketing Association Academic Council and has served as treasurer of the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Society for Marketing Science.

Professor Snyder is an industrial organization economist whose research focuses on antitrust policy and enforcement, contracting practices, financial institutions, and law and economics. He has consulted on and served as a testifying expert in numerous high-profile cases, opining on liability, damages, proposed mergers, price-fixing allegations, Hatch-Waxman claims involving pharmaceuticals, monopolization claims, and proposed class certifications of both direct and indirect purchasers. In addition, Professor Snyder has testified before combined US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice (DOJ) hearings on competition and intellectual property, and has presented separately before the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, where he worked as an economist earlier in his career, and the FTC. He has been a signatory to amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court on various price-fixing and Sherman Act issues.

Professor Snyder has written extensively on topics related to antitrust and policy issues, with his articles appearing in prestigious publications such as The Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, The Antitrust Bulletin, and Contemporary Policy Issues. His work has also been featured in major media outlets, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

Professor Snyder also served as the dean of the Yale School of Management from 2011 to 2019, during which time he enhanced the school’s academic programs and financial standing, and established new master’s programs in the areas of management, entrepreneurship, and executive education. He also founded the Global Network for Advanced Management at Yale University, an international consortium of schools devoted to teaching tomorrow’s business leaders around the world. Prior to joining Yale, Professor Snyder was the dean of the business schools of The University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and the University of Michigan.

Paul E. Greenberg, Director of Analysis Group’s Health Care Practice, consults to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in complex business litigation matters. Mr. Greenberg’s litigation experience has included performing economic and statistical analyses in support of testifying experts, as well as presenting findings to investigators from US Attorneys’ Offices and the Office of the Inspector General in numerous cases in which violations of the False Claims Act and/or the Anti-Kickback Statute have been alleged. Mr. Greenberg has provided economic consulting support in connection with class certification, liability, and damages in cases involving allegations of product failure, product fraud, antitrust, and/or patent infringement in the biopharmaceutical industry. He has provided strategic assistance to counsel at various key points in litigation, including pretrial discovery, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation. In the area of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), Mr. Greenberg has undertaken cost-of-illness studies relating to numerous psychiatric and physical disorders, as well as pharmacoeconomic assessments of the cost-effectiveness of drugs based on data gathered in clinical trials and/or administrative claims files. Mr. Greenberg’s work in HEOR has been widely published in leading medical and health economics journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of PharmacoEconomics, the Journal of Medical Economics, and Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, and he previously served on the editorial boards of Law360’s Life Sciences and Health Care electronic newsletters.

Dr. Pearlson is an expert in cybersecurity whose research spans management information systems, business strategy, and organizational design, as well as the development of a culture of cybersecurity to support the mitigation of cyber breaches. She also has experience in information management topics such as information systems leadership responsibilities, reengineering of business process design, and reasonable information protection practices. Dr. Pearlson has testified in litigation. She has also consulted to chief executives at established companies and startups on information technology (IT) strategy, and has led IT leadership development programs. Dr. Pearlson is a founder and managing partner of KP Partners, an advisory and executive education firm for chief information officers (CIOs), chief analytics officers (CAOs), and chief information security officers (CISOs). She is also founder and executive director of the Executive Networks IT Leaders Forum, and the founding director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium at the International Institute of Analytics. Dr. Pearlson is coauthor of Managing and Using Information: A Strategic Approach and Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value – Every Time, All the Time! She is a frequent guest speaker and has held positions in academia and industry, including at Babson College, The University of Texas at Austin, the Gartner Research Board, CSC Index, and AT&T.

Ms. Comeaux specializes in the application of finance and economics to complex business litigation and damages estimation. She has led teams across a broad range of matters involving commercial disputes, antitrust and competition, and securities and finance. Her clients include leading media and technology companies, financial institutions, global manufacturers, and life sciences companies. Ms. Comeaux has provided assistance through all phases of pretrial and trial practice, including expert search, fact discovery, class certification, quantification and rebuttal of damages, expert testimony, trial preparation, and settlement negotiations. She has also assisted clients in mass arbitration proceedings, regulatory investigations, and strategy engagements.

Ms. Comeaux has experience with a wide range of empirical methodologies, particularly within the context of damages analyses. Her work regularly involves critical examination of theories of liability, development of models to quantify damages, and both quantitative and qualitative analyses in response to allegations of negligence or punitive damages. She has worked with a wide variety of academic and industry experts to assess organizational, industry, and market conditions in order to contextualize analyses of damages. Ms. Comeaux has particular expertise in organizational assessments that address theories of liability, including reviewing and responding to the results of assessments conducted by regulators and third parties.

Professor Hylton has over 30 years of experience researching legal issues in antitrust, merger, and intellectual property cases. He is an expert on tort law, labor law, civil procedure, and empirical legal analysis. A prolific author, Professor Hylton has published 5 books and more than 100 scholarly articles on topics such as oligopoly pricing, the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property, and damages in patent infringement cases. He is an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, a former contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, coeditor of Competition Policy International, and editor of the Social Science Research Network’s Torts & Products Liability Law eJournal. Professor Hylton is a past president of the American Law and Economics Association, and previously served as the organization’s secretary-treasurer and vice president. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of directors of the Pioneer Institute.  Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Hylton was awarded tenure as a faculty member at Northwestern University School of Law and served as a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

Dr. Van Audenrode is an expert in data analysis and econometrics, labor economics, antitrust and competition policy, and public economics. He has consulted to clients - including law firms and government agencies - in Canada, the US, and Europe. Dr. Van Audenrode’s work includes developing a methodology to value desktop software; he also developed expertise valuing goods as varied as restaurant franchises, executive stock options, or smartphone features. His recent work in public economics includes evaluating the economic rent from hydroelectricity to the Canadian economy and the value of logging rights on the ancestral territory of a Canadian First Nation. In the area of labor economics, his work has included filing an expert report assessing fair compensation for Quebec provincial judges and Quebec prosecutors and advising Quebec’s commission on pay equity. Dr. Van Audenrode has filed expert reports in courts in the US, Canada, Belgium, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and has testified in Canada and the US. He recently filed a report with the Amsterdam Court of Appeal in support of the settlement reached between Ageas and claimant organizations in the Fortis case, the largest settlement ever reached through the Dutch Collective Settlement Act (WCAM). Dr. Van Audenrode’s scientific research and articles have been published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals and trade journals. He is a coauthor of the book The Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare, and is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences.

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Professor Rock is an expert in corporate law and corporate governance. He coauthored the book The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, and has published numerous articles on topics such as poison pills, politics and corporate law, hedge funds, corporate voting, proxy access, corporate federalism, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Professor Rock taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where at various times he served as co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics, associate dean, senior advisor to the president, and provost and director of open course initiatives. He has held visiting professorships at NYU and Columbia University, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hebrew University. Prior to his academic career, Professor Rock worked as an attorney specializing in complex antitrust, corporate, and securities litigation. In January 2019, the American Law Institute named him Reporter for the Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance.

Ms. Stamm specializes in the application of finance and accounting to problems in complex business litigation. She has testified on damages arising out of general commercial disputes and intellectual property matters and provided consulting expertise, including assistance with pretrial discovery, development of economic and financial models to analyze damages, critique of analyses of opposing experts, and preparation of expert reports and testimony. She has also conducted analyses relating to the valuation of financial instruments, valuation of private companies, and lost profits. In non-litigation matters, Ms. Stamm has assisted numerous businesses in varied industries with the development of business plans and financial projections, often through the use of complex integrated financial models. Ms. Stamm is a certified public accountant and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, where she has served on the litigation support committee. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on topics related to securities and intellectual property litigation, and has published articles on valuation and patent damages.

Mr. Gustafson applies his expertise in economics, econometrics, and modeling to litigation matters, complex business issues, and the analysis of public policy issues. He has worked extensively in the areas of health care, insurance, employment, ERISA, finance, intellectual property, commercial damages, and class certification.

In his litigation work, Mr. Gustafson has testified at deposition, arbitration, and trial on physician compensation, the reasonable value of medical services, retirement benefits, employment compensation, lost earning capacity, and commercial damages, and he has critiqued plaintiffs’ proposed damages formulas in several class actions. His work with federal agencies includes leading teams in two notable fraud cases: US Department of Justice v. Tenet, which resulted in one of the largest settlements ever paid in a health care fraud case; and US Securities and Exchange Commission v. Yuen, which resulted in one of the largest civil penalties ever assessed in an accounting fraud case.

Mr. Gustafson has worked with clients to perform affirmative pay equity studies and to develop methodologies to address identified disparities. He has explored economic issues associated with a wide range of insurance products, and also has experience in a variety of ERISA matters, including those related to 401(k) defined-contribution plans, health care plans, benefits, and insurance claims. Additionally, he has assembled and analyzed large, proprietary datasets common in pay equity, insurance, and health care engagements. Prior to joining Analysis Group, Mr. Gustafson was the business manager in Tokyo for an international nonprofit.

A former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Professor Rogerson focuses his research on applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization, regulation, cost accounting, telecommunications, and defense procurement. He has been an active participant in media transactions before the FCC, including Comcast/NBCUniversal and News Corp./DirecTV, as well as various rulemaking proceedings. Professor Rogerson was also the FCC’s senior economist, supervising its economic analyses of the Comcast/Time Warner Cable, AT&T/DirecTV, and Charter Communications/Time Warner Cable transactions. He has also served as an economic expert for the US Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the National Association of Attorneys General in various antitrust cases in the telecommunications, media, and defense industries. Professor Rogerson has published a number of articles and book chapters on topics such as vertical mergers in the video programming and distribution industry, and incentives for investment and innovation as related to the regulation of broadband telecommunications. He is a former editor of Economic Inquiry and Defense and Peace Economics, and a former member of the editorial boards of both the Review of Accounting Studies and The Journal of Industrial Economics. He served two terms as chair of Northwestern University’s Department of Economics, and currently holds several leadership roles at Northwestern, including research director of the Program on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth; director of the Center for Business Institutions; and co-director of the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization.

Dr. Vigil specializes in the application of economics and finance to complex commercial litigation matters. His work includes the estimation of damages and unjust enrichment in intellectual property (IP), breach of contract, and false advertising cases; the evaluation of patented drug products’ commercial success in connection with generic manufacturers’ Abbreviated New Drug Application submissions to obtain early market entry; and the analysis of issues related to the granting of permanent injunctions, such as irreparable harm and causal nexus. Dr. Vigil has also analyzed issues related to domestic industry, remedy, and bonding on cases before the International Trade Commission.

Dr. Vigil has served as an expert witness on litigation matters in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, and electronics. In non-litigation matters, he has assisted clients in valuing IP for sale or license; identifying and evaluating potential partners for licensing, acquisition, or divestiture of assets; and analyzing the impact of generic entry on prices and market shares of brand name pharmaceutical products.

Dr. Vigil is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Marketing Association, and the Licensing Executives Society, and is a frequent speaker on issues related to IP, valuation, and damages assessment. He has also taught courses in microeconomics and econometrics at the University of Maryland.

Professor Bucklin is an award-winning research specialist in the quantitative analysis of customer purchase behavior. He is an expert on applied choice models in marketing, channels of distribution, and pricing policies. Professor Bucklin has testified or been deposed in numerous cases involving antitrust and damages issues and most recently served as an expert in the Google AdWords litigation. In his current consulting work, Professor Bucklin focuses on quantitative tools to improve corporate marketing decision making and analysis of the variables involved in consumer choice. He has published extensively on topics related to website browsing, e-commerce purchase behavior, and marketing models. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, the Journal of Retailing, and Marketing Letters: A Journal of Research in Marketing. He also serves on the editorial board of Marketing Letters. Professor Bucklin previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company and as a business journalist for The Washington Post.

Ms. Comstock has extensive experience applying economic and financial analyses to litigation and other complex business situations. She has assisted clients in all phases of the litigation process, including fact and expert discovery, trial preparation, and settlement negotiations. Ms. Comstock’s case work has involved litigation related to the high-profile bankruptcies of several firms. She has provided consulting support and supported experts in cases related to the alleged manipulation of different benchmark rates, including evaluations of the effects of alleged manipulation on the value of different derivatives and securities. She has also provided consulting and expert support in matters involving alleged violations of Rule 10b-5 and Section 11, and on matters related to mortgage-backed securities. Ms. Comstock has supported experts in ERISA-related litigations, alleged breach of contract matters, and other business and valuation disputes.

Mr. Jenson has extensive experience managing complex high tech capital equipment businesses for public and private equity companies. He has more than 30 years of experience in global manufacturing focusing on general management, marketing, sales, and product development. His experience includes automation systems, robotics, thin-film process equipment, material handling equipment, industrial equipment, and analytical instrumentation. Mr. Jenson has participated in numerous mergers and acquisitions (M&As), as part of both the acquiring firm and the acquired firm. His M&A experience includes investment target identification, valuation, due diligence, integration, and management of acquired companies. In his position as general manager of core technologies for Ocean Insight – a spectroscopy and imaging technology company – Mr. Jenson leads the global sales, marketing, and product development teams. Prior to his work with Ocean Insight, he led the $200 million waterjet cutting systems business segment of SHAPE Technologies Group, managed the $250 million compound semiconductor equipment business unit of Veeco Instruments, and served as a senior leader in automation solutions for the semiconductor and flat panel display industries at Brooks Automation. Mr. Jenson is also a veteran submarine officer of the US Navy.