Personnel

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, Principal, 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.

Douglas M. Radtke, Principal, specializes in financial and economic analysis. He has over 15 years experience in merger and acquisition transactions, business valuations, and analyzing business plans of private and publicly-traded companies. His past engagements have covered the following industries: paper and pulp, utilities, energy, retail, construction, and medical equipment. Mr. Radtke has a B.A. in Economics from The University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from The Ohio State University.

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.

George M. McCollister, Principal, specializes in econometric and statistical analysis for energy supply planning and calculation of economic damages in civil litigation. He has applied these skills for ten years as a consultant, and for several years as a staff economist at three large investor owned utilities. Examples of his projects include energy demand forecasting, probabilistic energy supply planning, conservation and load management program savings evaluation, econometric modeling to value natural resources, statistical hypothesis testing in discrimination cases, and studies of how health related conditions affect expected worklife.

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.

Edward C. 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.