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EXPERTS
FINANCIAL SERVICES
EXPERT WITNESSES
Our experts have unmatched industry experience in a vast array of banking services practices.
With decades of industry experience as senior executives and global managing directors at leading financial institutions, consulting firms, and regulators, each of our banking expert witnesses is dedicated to applying exceptional real-world economic, financial, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges.
Our financial expert witnesses have been successfully engaged in hundreds of cases pertaining to litigations, disputes, and consulting.
We at SEDA Experts are proud to provide our world-class financial expert witness services on a wide range of matters; including, but not limited to disputes, determining causation, liability, and damages.
Many of these matters comprise alleged negligence, misrepresentation, and fraud for Fortune 500 corporations, including premiere global financial institutions, top tier banks, financial regulators, large sovereign funds, and hedge funds.
Our expertise also covers policy and procedures, internal operational controls, regulatory guidelines and industry-standard practices that financial institutions must comply to mitigate risks and potential asset losses.
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Richard A. Marin
Managing Director
Richard Marin as a former finance senior executive with over 40 years of investment banking industry experience, and as a former clinical professor at Cornell University is a world class testifying expert in asset management, alternative investments, private equity investments, securities lending, retirement and pensions, and real estate / project financing.
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.
Joanne M. Hill
Managing Director
Joanne has over 30 years of experience in leadership roles in investment strategy at investment banks and asset managers with a focus on index and quantitative products, derivatives, along with volatility and risk management. She currently serves as Chief Advisor for Research and Strategy at Vest Financial, a fund manager, specializing in option-based investments.
Dawn Stump
Managing Director
Dawn Stump is a highly seasoned financial executive and regulatory thought leader who recently served as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Her most recent areas of attention are business continuity, supply chain disruptions, cyber intrusion impact, integrity of emerging assets (e.g., crypto), data protection, and climate-related market risks.
Maggie Sklar
Managing Director
Maggie Sklar is a highly distinguished legal and policy professional with a comprehensive background in law, financial markets, and regulatory policy. She provides advisory services to financial institutions, regulated entities, and start-ups on futures, swaps, securities, and digital assets regulation or litigation.
David Locala
Managing Director
David Locala spent his entire career of over 30 years in investment banking, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and financing / capital markets transactions for companies in the technology sector. He completed over $200 billion in transactions, including buyside and sellside M&A for publicly-traded and private companies, leveraged buyouts and contested transactions.
Mitchell I. Gordon
Managing Director
Mitchell Gordon has over 40 years of experience as a C-suite executive (at both public and private companies), as a partner at a private equity firm and as a partner at a bulge bracket investment banking firm. He has extensive SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) experience having served as President and CFO and serving on the boards of 2 SPACs. He brings significant expertise in investment banking, M&A, start-ups, corporate governance and restructuring transactions and has extensive expertise in logistics and transportation, media and specialty finance.
Peter U. Vinella, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Advisor to the Board
Peter U. Vinella has more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry as a consultant and an executive with leading financial institutions. Mr. Vinella has extensive testifying experience acting as an expert for both plaintiff and defendant, involving more than 25 matters and including seven cases with more than $1 billion at stake.
Lisa Robins
Managing Director
Lisa Robins is a Senior Executive and Board Director, recognized globally for her deep experience and expertise in transaction banking and trade finance. In recent years, she was based in Asia (separately Hong Kong, China, and Singapore) where she effectively led organizations with diverse teams focused on developing technology, digitization, and risk management.
Todd Hohman
Managing Director
Todd Hohman has over 25 years of experience in financial markets, with a particular focus on algorithmic and systematic trading and execution of exchange traded products including cash equities, options, futures and ETFs. His areas of expertise cover high frequency trading, internalization and dark pools, central risk books, portfolio and operational risk management and related controls.
Kenneth Simmons
Managing Director
Kenneth Simmons, with over 30 years of industry experience as Executive Vice President at leading financial institutions, and at regulatory agency such as OCC and FDIC, is a top expert in regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, bank secrecy act, and financial crimes risk management.
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.
Jane Jarcho
Managing Director
Ms. Jarcho served as a Deputy Director at the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections & Examinations (“OCIE”) and Head of the Investment Adviser/Company (“IA/IC”) examination program. Ms. Jarcho’s enforcement work covered a breadth of areas, including complex financial frauds, insider trading, offering frauds, market manipulation, broker-dealer supervision, and IA/IC violations.
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.
Steven T. Kargman
Senior Advisor
Steven T. Kargman is a leading expert on international debt restructurings and cross-border insolvency, and he served formerly as General Counsel of the New York State Financial Control Board, the chief financial oversight agency for New York City, and as Lead Attorney with the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official export credit agency of the US government.
Craig Coben
Managing Director
Craig Coben has over 25 years of financial industry experience serving as the Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets and Global Head of Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He is an investment banking world-class expert with deep expertise in a full range of equity products, including IPOs, SPACs, block trades.
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. Brandon has held key roles at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), WilmerHale, and in executive positions at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
Robert Mass
Managing Director
Robert Mass as a former Goldman Sachs Senior Executive, Global Compliance Head of the sales and trading businesses, and International Compliance Head is a world-class expert in governance, supervision and compliance across markets and business types – and particularly in sales and trading, commodities and derivative compliance.
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. She has served in roles including General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for firms that manage hedge funds, private equity funds, venture funds, retail and institutional separately managed accounts, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds.
Bruce G. Dubinsky
Senior Advisor
Bruce G. Dubinsky is a world-class forensic accountant with over 40 years of financial investigative and dispute consulting experience and a nationally recognized expert in fraud investigations, forensic accounting, and dispute consulting.
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.
Kevin D. Oden Ph.D.
Managing Director
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. As former EVP and Head of Operational Risk and Compliance he is a world class expert in market risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk.
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. He is an expert in bank insolvency, central bank interventions in financial markets, crypto-assets, and DeFi.
Dave Douglass
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.
Edward Baker
Managing Director
Edward Baker has enjoyed a 40 plus year career in the investment management business, with a focus on ESG investing, quantitative investing and corporate governance. He is currently an advisor to climate change and extreme risk modelling firm Tipping Frontier.
Avinash Persaud
Managing Director
Avinash Persaud is an expert on global finance and economics, on the role of public policy in banking and financial crises, and a specialist in financial regulation and emerging markets. He has over 30 years of experience as a senior executive in large financial institutions and a respected policy advisor to major global bodies such as the G20, OECD, United Nations, and G7 Central Banks.
Paolo Mammola
Managing Director
Paolo has over 35 years of experience in financial markets where he has been a leader in the field of Risk Management with a particular focus on Counterparty Credit, Market Risk and traditional Credit Risk. He was an MD for 20 years at Citigroup and Barclays Capital where he attained multiple global leadership positions.
Kathryn Porter
Managing Director
Kathryn Porter is an independent energy consultant with over 25 years’ experience of the energy and finance sectors in both leadership and technical roles. She has specific expertise in the utilities, oil and gas sectors, with finance experience spanning equities and equity derivatives, debt capital markets, M&A, loans, and risk management.
Peter Selman
Managing Partner
Peter Selman, as the former Head of Global Equities at Deutsche Bank, and the Co-head of Global Equity Trading at Goldman Sachs, is a world-class expert in all aspects of equity products including cash equities, OTC options, listed derivatives, equity valuation, securities lending and prime finance, ETFs and structured products.
Louise Pitt Brindle
Senior Advisor
Louise Pitt Brindle is a seasoned expert in credit with a focus on the global financial institutions sector, most recently serving as a Principal and Head of Research at RPIA in Toronto. In a 27-year career, with significant roles at Goldman Sachs, her focus includes global fixed income, corporate credit, financial institutions’ strategy, financial accounting, ESG and sustainability investing.
Mark J. Buono
Managing Director
Mark Buono is a CMBS and CRE industry pioneer. He is a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he held various roles in the commercial real estate business for 20 years, and a Managing Director and CRE Portfolio Manager at the Global Atlantic Financial Group. He is an expert in CMBS, CRE CDOs, and REITs, CRE Portfolio Management, and Risk Management.
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.
Stephen F. O'Byrne
Managing Director
Stephen F. O’Byrne has over 40 years of experience in executive compensation and business unit performance measurement. He has been a leader in developing incentive plans that align employee and shareholder interests, in using economic profit to link operating performance to shareholder return, and in developing multi-factor statistical models to provide market rates for employees.
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.
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.
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.
Cameron Funkhouser
Managing Director
Cameron Funkhouser is an accomplished financial regulatory leader with over 35 years of experience in his role as Executive Vice President at FINRA. He has a peerless record in developing and implementing comprehensive regulatory programs, conducting high-profile investigations, and using advanced data solutions to improve market surveillance and compliance. Mr. Funkhouser has designed and managed large-scale regulatory programs overseeing registered broker-dealers and trading activities on the NYSE and Nasdaq.
Stephen Schiller
Managing Director
Mr. Schiller has spent his entire career in financial restructuring and M&A. He provides advice and testimony to parties involved in financially distressed and bankrupt organizations, whether they be creditors, debtors, equity holders, regulators or unions. He has over twenty-five years of experience in developing and assessing valuations, analyzing liquidity under various scenarios.
Andrew W. Feinberg
Managing Director
Andrew W. Feinberg has over 30 years of professional experience in corporate governance, leadership and executive operations. He has previously served successfully as CEO, as President and COO, and as Chief Legal Officer for public and private global companies, and has served as Chairman or Member, or advisor to, over a dozen boards of directors.
Adam Werner
Managing Director
Dr. Adam Werner has more than twenty-five years’ experience in litigation consulting, concentrating primarily on security class actions, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, shareholder derivatives and valuation cases. He has provided expert opinions and testified over 50 times in federal, state and bankruptcy courts within the United States.
David Pelleg
Managing Director
David Pelleg has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry and is an internationally recognized expert in structured finance, alternative asset management (especially hedge funds and private equity), derivatives trading, structuring, and risk, as well as digital assets. He is now a full-time professor of finance at Kent State University.
Blake Mather
Managing Director
Blake Mather, as a Partner and former Head of Bank Loan Sales, and Co-Head of High Yield and Distressed Sales at Goldman Sachs, is an expert in capital markets across multiple fixed-income products, including high-yield debt, loans, and distressed assets, as well as valuation and pricing across the capital structure.
Ian Mote
Managing Director
Ian Mote has over a quarter-century of expertise in international finance and banking, with a focus on Structured Trade and Commodity Finance, treasury management, and trade finance within global markets. Ian spent 20 years working with Standard Chartered Bank, where his career included significant roles in Europe, the Middle East, and Greater China.
Babak Eftekhari
Managing Director
Babak Eftekhari has over 25 years of experience in the finance industry, primarily as an emerging markets and foreign exchange derivatives trader. He served as managing director and head of local European Emerging Markets trading at Goldman Sachs and then subsequently Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mike Airheart
Managing Director
Mike served Corporate and Investment Banking clients raising public and private debt capital. As a Senior Corporate Banker, he managed middle-market and large, multinational, corporate clients, specializing in corporate finance, capital raising, due diligence, wholesale credit origination/loan book portfolio management and credit risk management.
Howard Yaruss
Managing Director
Howard Yaruss is an accomplished real estate expert. He teaches in this field as an Adjunct Professor at NYU, as well as practicing as an expert witness in Mortgage, Financial Guaranty and Title Insurance. He formerly served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Responsibility Officer, and member of the five-person management team of Radian Group Inc., one of the nation’s largest insurers of mortgage and municipal debt.
George Clayton
Managing Director
George Clayton is a seasoned cryptocurrency expert with extensive interaction on numerous blockchains. Within the crypto arena he has experience in Fund Formation, Market Research, Blockchain Research, Systems Implementation, Strategy Execution and Risk Management.
William A. Badia
Managing Director
William Badia worked twenty-five years in Goldman Sachs's Credit Department; he was the only Senior Risk Manager to have been stationed in all four of the Firm's major offices: New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London. He was the Chief Credit Officer overseeing Goldman Sachs Asian Credit Risk in the 1990's and European Credit Risk during the 2000's.
Arthur Miller
Managing Director
Arthur Miller has over 43 years of experience in public finance and municipal bonds serving as Managing Director and Co-Head of Public Finance Strategies & Analytics Groups at Goldman Sachs. He covered leading roles at industry organizations including Vice Chair and Member of the Board of Directors at the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. He currently acts as an Arbitrator at FINRA.
William I. Murphy
Managing Director
William Murphy is a Senior Executive with over 15 years in global coal, coke and iron ore shipments and 10 years of coal flow, transportation, and vessel management. He is experienced in coal & coke blender, both physical and paper and a specialist in quality risk assessment and vessel risk management from load port to discharge port.
Slim Bentami
Managing Director
Slim Bentami has over 30 years of experience in the finance industry, primarily at Goldman Sachs’ Risk Division where he co-founded and led the Model Risk as well as the Market Risk & Capital Quantification groups. He is an expert in models used to assist in the valuation and risk management of a variety of financial products across all asset classes.
Douglas Lucas
Managing Director
Douglas Lucas has more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry and he is a world-class expert in fixed income and structured product's credit risk. He created Moody’s CLO rating methodology, and he invented measures of portfolio risk, such as the WARF and the diversity score, which are in wide use today.
Richard Jefferson
Managing Director
Richard Jefferson is a former Global Head of Commodities Trading at Deutsche Bank with over 25 years of financial markets experience. He spent 19 years at Deutsche Bank in London and New York as a Foreign Exchange Derivatives Trader and then helped to build the energy trading franchise in North American Power and Gas, Oil and Refined Products.
Robert Almanas
Managing Director
In a 35 year career in financial services, Robert Almanas has held a variety of management positions in firms representing the various transaction banking and post-trade functions associated with cross-border financial activity: global custody, correspondent banking, contract administration, asset management administration, local market custody, and market infrastructure.
James N. Lane
Managing Director
Jim Lane has over 35 years of Wall Street experience as a private equity and investment professional. In his career Jim created and led two highly successful private equity firms. One of these groups, Goldman Sachs’ PIA, is now one of the largest alternative investment firms in the world and the second, SG Capital Partners, generated top quartile investment returns.
Barbara Mullaney Pendrill
Managing Director
Barbara is a seasoned financial services executive with extensive expertise in retail financial services and regulatory engagement. In a career that spanned the globe, she held senior roles in derivatives, structuring and latterly retail banking that gave her extensive insight into areas such as retail structured products, margin lending, disclosures and suitability.
David Saul
Managing Director
David Saul is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 year’s experience in financial services in both Compliance and Internal Audit as the Global Head of Compliance Risk Assurance at HSBC, the UK Head of Compliance Monitoring, Testing and Surveillance at Barclays, and the Group Head of Internal Audit and Operational Risk at BMO Asset Management.
Dylan Roy
Managing Director
Dylan Roy, with a stellar 30-year career, is recognized as a Fixed Income expert, encompassing senior roles in Foreign Exchange and Risk Management. After a decade-long tenure trading various Interest Rate Products in major global markets, he took significant responsibility at UBS as the Americas Head of Foreign Exchange, Rates, and Credit, eventually becoming The Global Co-head of Fixed Income Trading.
Philip A. Olesen
Managing Director
Philip Olesen is a global credit sales and trading professional with over 25 years of leadership and expertise in credit trading, risk management, and investment banking. With a distinguished career primarily at UBS Investment Bank, he has been involved in all credit products including bonds, loans, CDS and structured credit products including correlation risk.
Thorvin Anderson, CFA
Managing Director
Thorvin Anderson, CFA is a senior energy expert with extensive knowledge of complex commodity transaction structuring, power and gas trading analysis, physical asset dispatch, and finance. His experience also includes the creation and management of Front Office analytics teams and the development of risk management frameworks.
Alejandro Duarte, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Dr. Alejandro Duarte is a seasoned professional with a wealth of hands-on expertise in trading, hedging, risk management, and quantitative modelling across diverse asset classes. His career spans the design and development of sophisticated analytics and tools, culminating in his recent focus on algorithmic electronic trading systems.
J. Bradley Bennett
Managing Director
J. Bradley Bennett has over 30 years of experience in broker-dealers’ financial regulation, holding executive positions as an attorney and former Chief of Enforcement at FINRA. He is an expert in SEC and FINRA enforcement proceedings, internal investigations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), shareholder litigation, criminal matters, and financial frauds.
Martyn Till
Managing Director
Martyn Till is a retired senior tax advisor with extensive experience in the UK and international tax landscape, having spent most of his 30-year career at KPMG LLP as a Corporate Tax Advisor. He specializes in the tax aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and mid-market Private Equity transactions.
Robert Ohrenstein
Senior Advisor
Robert Ohrenstein is a market-leading transaction adviser to private equity and similar investors. His career includes leadership roles at KPMG, where he served as Global Head of Private Equity and Vice Chair, as well as advisory positions in various commercial and charitable organizations.
Brian Dilley
Managing Director
Brian is an Economic Crime Prevention expert, with over 25 years of experience working at banks, regulators, and consultancies. He has managed and advised on fraud and anti-money laundering prevention, sanctions, and anti-bribery compliance, most recently serving as the Group Director of Economic Crime Prevention at Lloyds Banking Group. Mr. Dilley is currently working in a variety of consulting roles at banks and regulators.
Debbie Bigman
Managing Director
Debbie Bigman has over 36 years of experience in financial product valuation, enterprise risk management and financial reporting. Her deep knowledge in credit, pricing and transaction analysis spans decades of market cycles and disruptions. Debbie has helped banks, specialty lenders, insurance companies, and funds navigate complex challenges arising from market and regulatory driven change.
Robert MacLaverty
Managing Director
Robert MacLaverty is a managing director with SEDA Experts (SEDA) providing financial, economic, and testifying expert services to the nation's leading law firms, investment banks, pension funds, endowments, and foundations.
D. Scott Warman
Managing Director
Scott Warman is the former Treasurer at M&T Bank with over 30 years of experience in treasury management and financial leadership. Throughout his career, he has played a critical role in strengthening financial soundness, navigating complex market environments, and implementing innovative risk and liquidity management frameworks.
Hugh Clark
Managing Director
Hugh Clark is a trading expert with a career spanning multiple asset classes and both buy-side and sell-side roles. He spent 18 years as CIO responsible for strategies and trading at a boutique FX hedge fund. In recent years he operated as a leading expert on market abuse and trade surveillance advising tier 1 banks on detection strategy and system design.
Richard Adams
Managing Director
Richard Adams has over 35 years of experience in global financial markets, with a focus on trading, investment management, and systematic strategy development. He has largely focused his experiences within liquid markets, particularly FX, Fixed Income and Futures, but has also spent time living in and trading Emerging Markets.
Gary DeWaal
Managing Director
Gary DeWaal is a seasoned expert in the law and regulation of futures and related exchanges. He additionally has expertise in securities, derivatives, digital assets, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. He held senior roles at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and Fimat (later renamed Newedge) and continues to be a respected voice in the field through ongoing work in related initiatives.
Robin Shoemaker
Managing Director
Robin Shoemaker has over 30 years of experience in equity research focused on the oil and gas industry. Robin’s tenure in energy research started at Lehman Brothers and included a two-year assignment as co-head of Asia Equity Research in Hong Kong. At Bear Stearns, Robin served as a Managing Director covering the oilfield services industry.
Fred Brettschneider
Senior Advisor
Fred Brettschneider is a securitized products and asset-backed finance executive with over 30 years of experience at leading banks and asset managers. Mr. Brettschneider has a deep understanding of fixed income and equity instruments, with strong focus on Asset Backed Securities (ABS) and securitized products, acquired while heading equity/debt markets, and ABS trading and syndicate practices globally at large financial institutions. He also has broad experience across Investments, Risk Management, Valuations, and Compliance.
Paul Morgan
Managing Director
Paul Morgan is a seasoned expert in structured products, securities trading, investment management, and capital markets. With over 30 years of experience, he has led and advised FCA-regulated entities, managed proprietary trading portfolios, and built high-performing investment teams. As a trusted advisor to financial institutions and boards, he provides strategic guidance on market volatility, risk management, and strategic growth.
Stephen Laughton
Managing Director
Stephen Laughton has more than 25 years experience in interest rate products, derivatives and government bond trading. Stephen has extensive experience in both flow and structured products spanning both developed and emerging markets, with deep expertise in derivative documentation, portfolio modelling and valuation, risk, regulation, and financial resource optimisation.
Kevin M. Murphy
Managing Director
Kevin Murphy has spent over 30 years in financial markets and is an acknowledged expert in equity markets, risk and structured products. He is presently a partner at Sachs Capital Group Asset Management overseeing Trading, Risk and Product Development after leadership roles at several global investment banks.
Howard Mills
Senior Advisor
Mr. Mills is a former Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department and a retired Deloitte Managing Director and Global Insurance Regulatory Leader. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Insurance Practice at McKinsey and Company and currently serves on the Boards of Genworth Financial and The Doctors Company Group.
Alfred G. Jackson
Managing Director
Alfred G. Jackson has over 40 years’ experience in financial markets where he was a leader in the field of equities research and valuation as well as Managing Partner in a successful Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). In his long career at Credit Suisse First Boston Mr. Jackson was consistently voted the #1 analyst for the food category.
Jeff Zorek
Managing Director
Jeff Zorek is a capital markets expert with a distinguished career incorporating leadership roles in electronic trading and prime services across the globe. Jeff’s experience includes some of the most important recent nascent themes in finance including the integration of client execution with portfolio leverage and the white labeling of Execution, Financing and Custody services to third party financial providers. He has held pivotal roles at leading financial institutions including Lehman Brothers, Nomura International and Goldman Sachs.
Edward J. Fraim Jr.
Managing Director
Edward J. Fraim Jr. has over 25 years of experience in Energy and Financial Derivatives, Futures and Options. As the former Head of ICE Proprietary Data he is an expert in derivatives trading, benchmark price valuations, complex pricing models, commodities risk management, hedging strategies, and supporting technologies.
T. S. Shankar
Managing Director
Shankar is a highly experienced global payments professional with over two decades in Correspondent Banking covering Cross Border Payments and Trade Finance. His career included stints at Bank of America and Standard Chartered Bank, where he was the Global Product head for Financial Institutions – Payments. In this role his focus was on currency clearing including USD, EURO, RMB, GBP and Continuous linked settlement (CLS).
R. Bram Smith
Managing Director
Thanks to 40 years of experience in the US corporate loan market, both as the Executive Director of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) and senior executive in three leading financial institutions such as Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, and Bankers Trust, Bram Smith is a world-class expert in loan syndications, sales and trading, and capital markets.
Kurtis S. Plumer
Managing Director
Kurtis S. Plumer is a seasoned leveraged finance executive with over 30 years of experience in bankruptcy, restructuring and workouts. He has a deep expertise in managing investments across various asset classes, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt and structured products. His career spans roles in credit portfolio management, distressed investing, and restructuring.
Nicholas Silitch
Senior Advisor
Nick Silitch is a seasoned expert in risk management, insurance, and credit risk. Rising through banking leadership to become Chief Risk Officer of one of the world’s largest insurance companies, he has had a front row seat to the most significant economic cycles, challenges, and regulatory changes over the last 40 years. Over the course of his career, he has played an active role in shaping regulatory dialogue and he applies this perspective as a respected advisor to leaders and boards in making decisions that react prudently to market shifts.
Craig A. Fox
Managing Director
Craig Fox is a petroleum engineer with extensive experience in the upstream oil and gas industry with a focus on technical support for structured finance transactions. Direct operations experience and management of technical teams complements his skills in evaluating a wide range of projects across the industry.
Nina Rodriguez
Managing Director
Nina Rodriguez is an accomplished expert in the field of corporate governance and regulatory law and has deep experience in matters relating to ethics, whistleblower complaints, board member roles, and bylaws. She has also opined on areas of IPO derivative lawsuits, corporate governance compliance, insider trading, and disclosure requirements for public and private offerings.
Timothy J. Fogarty Sr.
Managing Director
Timothy Fogarty is a former senior Federal Reserve Bank officer with over 35 years of industry experience covering all aspects of international central banking operations and extensive special purpose financial transactions in support of U.S. government and multinational policy objectives.
Matt Sekerke, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Matt Sekerke's consulting practice focuses on economic litigation, financial economics, mathematical modeling, and regulatory issues in financial services. He specializes in building and calibrating valuation models for financial instruments, designing market and credit risk management systems, conducting econometric analysis of complex data sets, and applying machine learning and AI in finance. His expertise also covers fixed income, derivatives, and structured finance markets.
Damiano Colnago
Managing Partner
Damiano Colnago is the co-founder of SEDA Experts LLC. He specializes in custody and trustee services, and collateral administration. His expertise includes banking operation, collateralized debt obligations, fund of funds, derivatives , asset-backed securities (ABS), mortgage backed securities (MBS), syndicated loans, and cryptocurrencies.
Jeanette Jin, Ph.D.
Managing Director
With three decades of experience working in the financial services industry as a senior executive, Dr. Jin has gained a deep knowledge of the industry’s customs, practices, and standards of care. Dr. Jin has provided expert testimony and advisory services on more than fifty matters involving cryptocurrencies, MBS, derivatives, alternative investments, risk management and corporate trust services.
Sergio C. Godinho
Managing Partner
Sergio Godinho is the co-founder of SEDA Experts LLC and the former Head of CDO Risk and Compliance at Wilmington Trust. He is a senior professional with diversified experience in both the financial services industry, as well as providing advice in litigation, dispute resolution, mediation, and business consulting matters, including class actions and class certifications.
Caitlin Owen
Director
Caitlin Owen has over 10 years of experience specializing in litigation support and forensic accounting services. Her professional experience includes financial analysis, forensic investigations, business valuations, economic damages, and post-acquisition disputes.
Robert Munns
Managing Director
Robert Munns is a banking professional with over 30 years of experience in Asset Based / Middle Market Lending. As former Senior Vice President for leading financial institutions he specializes in loan operations, cross-selling, portfolio management, and sound credit practices. His expertise includes direct loans, commercial mortgages, and loan syndications & participations.
Howard Kramer
Senior Advisor
Howard Kramer is a distinguished retired financial regulatory attorney with over 40 years of comprehensive experience in both government and private sectors. His expertise spans a wide array of areas including securities and derivative products and markets, equity, options and debt market trading, broker-dealer compliance, the US financial regulatory structure.
Alexander Huang
Associate Director
Alexander Huang has over 10 years of experience specializing in litigation support and forensic economic services. His professional experience includes financial analysis, econometric analysis, class certification, market efficiency, price impact, damages estimation, loss causation, materiality, damages quantification, and assisting in settlement and mediation disputes.
During all stages of the engagement, our banking expert witnesses are adroitly supported by highly skilled, experienced, and dedicated staff.
These stages include case early assessment, data analysis, damages and valuation calculation, as well as report and exhibits preparation and submission to ensure that deliverables are met at the highest standards protecting expert witnesses’ reputation and credibility.
PRACTICES
ALGORITHMIC AND ELECTRONIC TRADING
ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASSES AND INVESTMENTS
ANTITRUST & COMPETITION
ASSET MANAGEMENT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
ASSET SERVICING AND STRUCTURED FINANCE
CAPITAL MARKETS
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & ESG
CRYPTO, DIGITAL ASSETS AND BLOCKCHAIN
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