FINANCIAL EXPERT WITNESS

Richard Marin is a seasoned finance executive with more than 47 years of industry experience, and a distinguished career spanning asset management, alternative investments, high-net-worth banking, private equity, securities lending, pensions, and real estate finance.

Craig Broderick is the former Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of Goldman Sachs where he served on the Management Committee and was Chair or Co-Chair of the Firmwide Risk Committee. In a 32 year career Craig oversaw control of the firm’s credit, market, liquidity, operational, model, counterparty and insurance risks.

Joanne has over 30 years of experience in investment strategy and asset management with a focus on index and quantitative products, derivatives, and exchange traded products (ETFs and ETNs). She has been instrumental in the growth and expansion of the ETF industry.

Dawn Stump is a seasoned financial executive and regulatory leader, recently serving as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Her work has spanned all asset classes, with a focus on business continuity, supply chain disruptions, cyber risk, emerging assets including crypto, data protection, and climate-related market risks.

David Locala has 30+ years of investment banking experience, specializing in technology M&A and capital markets. He has advised on over $200 billion in transactions, including buy- and sell-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, contested deals, and complex financings.

Mitchell Gordon is an expert witness in corporate governance, capital markets and SPAC-related litigation. He has served as President and Chief Financial Officer and has sat on the boards of multiple SPAC vehicles.

Peter U. Vinella has more than 35 years of experience in the financial industry as a consultant and as an executive with leading financial institutions and government agencies. Mr. Vinella has extensive testifying experience acting as an expert for both plaintiff and defendant over more than 40 engagements.

Lisa Robins is a senior executive and board director with deep expertise in transaction banking and trade finance. Based in Asia in recent years, she has led diverse teams across Hong Kong, China, and Singapore, focusing on technology, digitization, and risk management.

Todd Hohman has over 25 years of experience in financial markets, specializing in algorithmic and systematic trading and execution across equities, options, futures, and ETFs, with expertise in high-frequency trading, dark pools, central risk books, trading automation, risk management, and payment for order flow.

Kenneth Simmons is a renowned expert in regulatory compliance, fraud, anti-money laundering (AML), Sanctions, and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). His background spans hands‑on leadership roles within major financial institutions as well as influential positions across multiple regulatory bodies.

Sameer Govil has over 30 years experience in payment network platforms, emerging electronic commerce solutions and consumer banking across diverse geographies. During his career, Sameer has served on the executive leadership team at Visa and led areas of high strategic and financial importance to the company.

Ms. Jarcho served as Deputy Director at the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations and led the IA/IC examination program. Her enforcement work covered complex financial fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, broker-dealer supervision, and investment adviser and company violations.

Dr. Tzenova provides expert testimony and litigation consulting services on a broad spectrum of economic issues in the areas of commercial damages, business valuation, intellectual property, antitrust and competition strategy, and various issues at the intersection of business and government.

Craig Coben is a world-class investment banking expert with over 25 years of experience, including serving as Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets and Global Head of Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, specializing in IPOs, SPACs, and a full range of equity and equity-linked products.

Brandon Becker is a distinguished expert in securities regulation and corporate governance, with a career spanning over four decades in both public service and private sector roles. His expertise covers a wide range of critical areas, including market oversight, broker-dealer compliance, and regulatory advisory for major financial institutions.

Robert Mass is a former Goldman Sachs senior executive and Global Head of Compliance for sales and trading, as well as International Head of Compliance. He is an expert in governance, supervision, and compliance, and played a key role in developing Goldman’s firmwide ethics program.

Melissa Gleave is a senior investment banking and financial markets professional with over two decades of experience across derivatives, capital markets, and institutional client coverage, combined with leadership roles in expert services for financial disputes.

Natasha Kassian has over 30 years of buy-side experience providing legal and compliance guidance to registered investment advisers across a broad range of products, asset classes, investment strategies, and jurisdictions.

Sekhar has almost 35 years of experience in investment banking. He ran Deutsche Bank’s Sponsor Coverage Business, which covered private equity firms as investment banking clients, and then took responsibility for the firm’s European Leveraged Finance business.

Dr. Oden, has unrivaled financial risk management expertise and over 30 years of financial markets experience with leading financial institutions firms Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, holding executive positions.

Dr. Willem has over 40 years of experience in the financial industry as the Global Chief Economist at Citigroup, Professor of International Economics at Yale University and consultant to international financial institutions such as the IMF, and the World Bank.

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, and regulatory compliance.

Edward Baker has over 40 years of experience in investment management, specializing in ESG, quantitative investing, and corporate governance. He currently advises Tipping Frontier on assessing the financial impact of climate and extreme risks for companies and governments.

Paolo has 35+ years of experience in financial markets, specializing in risk management across counterparty credit, market, and credit risk. He spent 20 years as an MD at Citigroup and Barclays Capital, holding global leadership roles, and later led risk management and margin lending at Citi Global Wealth.

Kathryn Porter is an independent energy consultant with 25+ years of experience across the energy and finance sectors. She specializes in utilities, oil and gas, and has broad expertise in equities, debt capital markets, M&A, loans, and risk management.

Louise Pitt Brindle is a credit expert with 27 years of experience, specializing in global financial institutions. She most recently served as Principal and Head of Research at RPIA and previously held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, with expertise spanning fixed income, corporate credit, ESG, and private debt.

Mark Buono is a CMBS and CRE industry pioneer and former Goldman Sachs Managing Director with 20 years in commercial real estate. He also served as Managing Director and CRE Portfolio Manager at Global Atlantic Financial Group and specializes in CMBS, CRE CDOs, REITs, portfolio, and risk management.

Bruno Roch has over 20 years of experience in energy markets covering both physical and derivatives transactions and has overseen global trading activities within Goldman Sachs and Trafigura amongst others. He is a world-class expert in Power, Gas, Dry Freight, Iron Ore, Fertilizers, Biomass, Emissions, Petroleum Coke, Thermal and Metallurgical Coal.

Stephen F. O’Byrne has 40+ years of experience in executive compensation and performance measurement. He specializes in incentive design, economic profit frameworks, and statistical models to align employee performance with shareholder value.

Mark McKendry has over 25 years of global experience in capital markets, global treasury and digital assets. His areas of expertise include the trading of fixed income in the UK, Europe and Australasia. In addition, he has considerable experience in treasury risk management and bank governance.

Dr. Hildreth is a senior economist with 30+ years of experience providing economic and statistical analysis in complex litigation, regulatory investigations, and international arbitration. He specializes in antitrust, securities litigation, class actions, and financial disputes, with a focus on damages and econometrics.

Chris Whitman has more than 30 years of debt and equity capital markets experience, alongside as a bank treasurer and capital allocator. Chris helmed a handful of global functions over the second half of his 23 years at Deutsche Bank developing and drawing upon these skills.

Bradley Ziff is a world class expert in counterparty and credit risk, the LIBOR transition and issues surrounding central clearing as a risk mitigant. Over the past thirty years, Brad has led multiple global benchmarking projects focusing on different aspects of capital and financial markets.