Dave Douglass | Financial and Economic Damages Expert Witness | SEDA Experts
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Dave Douglass, CPA
SEDA Experts

Dave Douglass, CPA

Managing Director

Mr. Douglass is a financial expert specializing in valuation, damages, solvency, and forensic analysis, with extensive experience advising on complex disputes, transactions, and strategic matters across a wide range of industries.

Financial and Economic Damages Expert Witness

Mr. Douglass provides advice in both litigation and business consulting matters requiring specialized financial and economic expertise. He has more than fifteen years of experience in business valuation, analysis of damages in securities litigation, valuation of intellectual property in trademark and patent disputes, loss causation analysis, solvency analysis, regulatory compliance consulting, and general economic and financial analysis.

His work spans business valuation, loss causation, and financial analysis, as well as private equity due diligence, market analysis, and corporate strategy.

He has served as a testifying expert in numerous high-stakes litigations and arbitrations, addressing issues including damages quantification, solvency, intellectual property valuation, and breach of contract. His experience covers a broad set of sectors, including energy, healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, consumer products, and technology. Mr. Douglass has led analyses involving multibillion-dollar assets and transactions, including pipeline networks, oil and gas operations, retail chains, and complex financial structures. He has also conducted solvency assessments in distressed and bankruptcy contexts, and supported class certification and antitrust analyses in large-scale securities and commercial disputes.

In addition to his dispute work, Mr. Douglass has advised on strategic transactions and acquisitions, including due diligence for multi-billion-dollar investments, and has led business strategy engagements focused on market sizing, competitive positioning, and growth initiatives. Earlier in his career, he co-founded and exited a financial services technology venture within a major banking institution, achieving a significant return in a short timeframe.

Mr. Douglass also has experience in investigations and compliance, including financial misconduct reviews and the development of policies and controls in preparation for regulatory examinations.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Texas and Florida, and holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) designations from the American Institute of CPAs. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

EXPERTISE


Business Valuation

Intellectual Property

Antitrust & Competition Policy 

Disputes & Investigations 

Forensic Accounting 

Damages Analysis


EDUCATION


University of Chicago

MBA


University of Texas at Dallas

MSc, Accounting


London School of Economics

MSc, Management and Regulation of Risk


US Military Academy

BSc

WORK HISTORY


SEDA Experts

Managing Director

2023-Current


Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Director

2012-2022


Navigant 

Associate Director

2009-2012


Charles River Associates

Associate Principal

2003-2008


Bank of America

Vice President

2000-2001


United States Army 

Captain

1994-1999



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Dave Douglass, CPA

1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

+1 646-626-4555

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