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Christopher C.
Pflaum, President, has substantial expertise in the valuation of
complex business enterprises such as limited partnerships and contracts
containing option clauses and performance-based payments. Dr. Pflaum has
testified and consulted in a wide variety of business-related litigation
including antitrust, interruption of business, fraud, securities matters and
regulatory economics. He has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of South
Carolina.
Eric C. Frye, CFA,
ASA, Vice President, specializes in financial and economic analysis. He
has several years experience analyzing business plans of small and medium size
companies including the development of financial models to forecast future
performance. Mr. Frye has a B.A. in Economics from DePauw University and an
MBA in Finance and Economics from Indiana University.
Mark W. Erwin, Senior Economist, specializes in the valuation of economic damages in civil litigation. He has applied these skills for eighteen years as Vice President of Litigation Economics, Inc. He earned an M.A. in Economics and a law degree from the University of Kansas.
Stephen G. Bronars, a Faculty Associate of Spectrum Economics, is a nationally recognized expert in labor economics and Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Bronar’s publications have appeared in numerous economics journals including The American Economic Review, The Journal of Labor Economics and The Review of Economics and Statistics. For Spectrum, he has testified on employment discrimination, railway safety issues and compensation of CEOs.
William M.G. Pearson is the Managing Principal of Spectrum's Chicago office. He specializes in the analysis of damages ensuing from business and personal torts, labor issues such as discriminatory practices and wrongful terminations, securities litigation and intellectual property disputes. He has testified in matters involving personal injury and business valuation. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Gary Skoog, Principal of Spectrum's Chicago office, conducts economic and econometric analysis for litigation. Dr. Skoog has broad experience in valuation in all types of tort and in commercial litigation and has published extensively in forensic economics, particularly in the area of worklife expectancy. He is the Midwest Vice-President of the National Association of Forensic Economists. Dr. Skoog has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and Department of Economics. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at De Paul University. Dr. Skoog’s Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota.
Jim Ciecka, Principal and Director of Research of Spectrum's Chicago office, is Professor of Economics at DePaul University’s Kellstadt College of Commerce. Professor Ciecka conducts research into matters relevant to valuation of damages in tort matters such as worklife expectancy of various cohorts of people. He is an experienced witness in tort litigation. Professor Ciecka has a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Edward
Bodmer, Senior Associate of Spectrum's Chicago office, has an MBA in finance from the University
of Chicago. Mr. Bodmer's expertise in financial modeling and decision analysis
is widely recognized. He was employed by First National Bank of Chicago where
he was a Vice President in the utilities group and was the developer of the
bank's utility financial model.
