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FINANCIAL EXPERT WITNESS

Financial Expert Witness I SEDA Experts

SEDA Experts provides independent advice, financial consulting services, data analytics, valuation, and financial expert witness services to financial institutions and law firms in both litigation and business contexts.

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SEDA financial expert witnesses have unmatched industry experience in a vast array of financial services practices. With over 30 years as global managing directors at leading financial institutions and consulting firms, each of our financial expert witnesses is dedicated to applying exceptional real-world economic, financial, and quantitative principles to complex financial and legal challenges.

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SEDA financial expert witnesses have been successfully engaged as testifying experts in hundreds of cases pertaining to real-world finance litigation, disputes, and consulting.

 

We at SEDA Experts are proud to provide our world-class financial expert witness services on a wide range of high stake matters in the following financial areas: asset management, risk management and compliance, securities and derivatives, structured finance, custody and trustee services, forensic accounting, damage, and valuation.

 

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SEDA provides elite financial expert witness services to law firms and financial institutions. Our financial expert witnesses may be engaged at different stages of the dispute and litigation process including assisting clients in the discovery process, submit declarations or affidavits in support to clients' claims, write and submit expert reports and rebuttal reports, depositions, assist mediation and settlement, and testify at trial.

 

Our financial expert witnesses are supported by a team specialized in data analysis, offering our clients state-of-the-art economic, financial and statistical analysis of large datasets, turning complex data into easy to read charts, graphs, and expert reports. The accuracy and efficiency of our analysis help our client so that key opinions and strategies could be reliably based in fact.

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SEDA Experts assist clients with financial damages calculation and analysis that could be performed for purposes of filing a claim, mediation and settlement negotiations, or as part of the damages expert report and trial preparation. We also provide damage, forensic accounting, and valuation services outside dispute and litigation context.

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Our invaluable extensive network of in-house and outside financial experts includes academic and finance industry leaders. We assist law firms and clients to find the expert witness that better fits their needs, with the right skill set, industry experience, and expertise.

FINANCIAL EXPERT WITNESSES

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Richard A. Marin

Richard A. Marin

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Asset Management · Alternative Investments · Private Equity Investments · Securities Lending · Retirement and Pension · ERISA Funds Investment Standards · Real Estate / Project Financing

Craig W. Broderick

Craig W. Broderick

Senior Advisor

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.

EXPERTISE

Credit and Counterparty Risk · Market Risk · Liquidity Risk · Operational Risk · Insurance Risk

Joanne M. Hill

Joanne M. Hill

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Investment Strategy · EFTs · Index and Quantitative Products · Option-based Investments · Volatility · Risk Management Strategy

Dawn Stump

Dawn Stump

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Derivatives Regulation · Enforcement · Surveillance · Commodity Markets · Public Policy

David Locala

David Locala

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) · Fairness Opinions · Business Valuation · Venture Capital/Private Equity · IPOs / SPACs · Companies in the Technology Sector

Mitchell I. Gordon

Mitchell I. Gordon

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) · Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) · Investment Banking, Restructuring and Financing · Transportation and Logistics

Peter U. Vinella, Ph.D.

Peter U. Vinella, Ph.D.

Managing Director & Advisor

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.

EXPERTISE

Trading and Investments, Risk Management, Quantitative Analysis, FinTech and Project Management, Operations, Repo and Securities Lending

Lisa Robins

Lisa Robins

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Transaction Banking · Trade Finance · International Banking · Risk Management

Todd Hohman

Todd Hohman

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Algorithmic Trading · Equity Derivatives · Portfolio Risk · Statistical Arbitrage · High Frequency Trading · Automated Trading Controls

Kenneth Simmons

Kenneth Simmons

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Anti-Money Laundering ·  Bank Secrecy Act Compliance · Financial Crimes Risk Management · Regulatory Compliance · AML/BSA Risk Management

Sameer Govil

Sameer Govil

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Digital Payments · Network Operating Regulations · Fintech

Svetla Tzenova, Ph.D.

Svetla Tzenova, Ph.D.

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Commercial and Economic Damages · Business Valuation, Intellectual Property · Antitrust · Competition Strategy

Craig Coben

Craig Coben

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE


IPOs, and Securities Offerings · Investment Banking · SPACs · Block Trades · Margin Loans · Corporate Equity Derivatives

Brandon Becker

Brandon Becker

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Market Structure · Broker-dealer Compliance · Corporate Governance · Exchange Regulation

Robert Mass

Robert Mass

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Financial Compliance & Ethics · Sales & Trading Compliance · Commodities & Derivatives Compliance · HF/PE Screening · Equity & Fixed Income Underwriting Compliance

Melissa Gleave

Melissa Gleave

Director of Client Solutions

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.

EXPERTISE

Expert Conduct Within Disputes · Financial Services · Interest Rate Derivatives · Foreign Exchange 

Molly Colman

Molly Colman

Business Development Manager

Molly Colman has extensive experience across litigation operations, business development, and legal practice management within law firm and consulting environments.

EXPERTISE

Business Development · Client Relationship · Management · Securities Litigation & Financial Disputes · Growth Strategy

Natasha Kassian

Natasha Kassian

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Buy-Side Legal and Compliance · Regulatory Examinations · Inquiries and Investigations

Sekhar Bahadur

Sekhar Bahadur

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Banking · Corporate Finance · Leveraged Finance · Private Equity · Mergers and Acquisitions · Corporate Finance · Derivatives

Willem Buiter, Ph.D.

Willem Buiter, Ph.D.

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Monetary Policy · Bank Insolvency · Central Banks’ Interventions in Financial Markets · Public debt and sovereign default · Crypto assets and DeFi · Islamic Finance · Credit Default Swap

Dave Douglass, CPA

Dave Douglass, CPA

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Business Valuation · Intellectual Property · Antitrust & Competition Policy ·  Disputes & Investigations ·  Forensic Accounting · Damages Analysis

Edward Baker

Edward Baker

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

ESG Investing · Corporate Governance · Quantitative Investing · Risk Management

Paolo Mammola

Paolo Mammola

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Financial and non-Financial Risk Management · Counterparty Risk · Derivatives pricing · Market Risk · VaR models · Lending Wealth Management

Kathryn Porter

Kathryn Porter

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Utilities, Oil and Gas Equities · Debt Capital Markets · M&A · Loans

Louise Pitt Brindle

Louise Pitt Brindle

Senior Advisor

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.

EXPERTISE

Credit Research · Credit Trading · Financial Institutions Research · Preferred Stocks · AT1 Capital · CDS · ESG Investments

Mark J. Buono

Mark J. Buono

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

CMBS, CRE CDOs, and REITs · Commercial Real Estate Lending · CRE Portfolio Management · CRE Portfolio Risk Management

Bruno Roch

Bruno Roch

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Commodities · Energy Markets · Energy Trading · Energy Infrastructure

Stephen F. O'Byrne

Stephen F. O'Byrne

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Executive compensation · Incentive plan design · Business unit valuation and target setting · Business unit performance measurement · Labor market analysis

Mark McKendry

Mark McKendry

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Capital Markets · Crypto · Digital Assets and Blockchain · Securities and Derivatives · Global Treasury

Andrew Hildreth, Ph.D.

Andrew Hildreth, Ph.D.

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Antitrust and Competition · Securities Litigation · Class Action Litigation · Damages and Quantification · Econometrics and Statistical Analysis

Chris Whitman

Chris Whitman

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

Debt Capital Markets, Bank Treasury · Equity Capital Markets · Capital Allocation and Capital Efficiency

Bradley Ziff

Bradley Ziff

Managing Director

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.

EXPERTISE

ISDA Counterparty Risk · Central Clearing LIBOR Transition

Cameron Funkhouser

Cameron Funkhouser

Managing Director

Cameron Funkhouser is a financial regulatory leader with over 35 years of experience as Executive Vice President at FINRA, with a strong record in regulatory programs, high-profile investigations, and data-driven market surveillance and compliance.

EXPERTISE

Trade Surveillance · Insider Trading · Investigations · Market Manipulation · Compliance

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