Professional Staff

Patrick A. Gaughan, Ph.D.
President
Fields: Corporate Finance, Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Forensic and Litigation Economics.

Dr. Gaughan is a leading authority in the field of valuation and measurement of damages in commercial litigation. In addition, Dr. Gaughan has done extensive analysis of the economics of punitive damages. He is a former vice-president and member of the board of directors of the National Association of Forensic Economists and is a graduate level, full professor of economics and finance at the College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Dr. Gaughan is the author of Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings, 3rd Edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), which was awarded Book of the Year in accounting by The Association of American Publishers, Measuring Commercial Damages, (John Wiley & Sons, 2000), Economic Expert Testimony: A Guide for Judges and Lawyers, (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co. Inc., 1998), Litigation Economics, (JAI Press, 1994), Mergers & Acquisitions, (Harper Collins, 1991), and Readings In Mergers and Acquisitions, (Basil Blackwell, 1993). He has published numerous scholarly journal articles in publications such as the International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Legal Economics, Litigation Economics Review, and The Journal of Accounting and Corporate Finance. Dr. Gaughan is a referee for these peer reviewed journals and is the Co-Editor of Litigation Economics Review . Dr. Gaughan is regularly called upon to speak and chair numerous seminars and conferences throughout the United States.

Prof. Henry Fuentes, C.P.A., M.B.A., A.B.V, C.F.E.
Executive Vice President
Fields: Corporate and Forensic Accounting, Financial Analysis

Professor Fuentes is a professor of accounting at the College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the former Associate Dean of the College of Business and the former chairman of the accounting department. He has published scholarly articles on the applications of finance and accounting to litigated matters. Professor Fuentes has been voted by the New Jersey Society of CPA's as the leading accounting educator in the State of New Jersey. He is regularly called upon to teach in-house seminars at accounting firms and continuing legal and accounting education seminars. Professor Fuentes is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Laura Bonanomi, Ph.D.
Vice President
Fields: Valuation Analysis and Forensic and Litigation Economics

Dr. Bonanomi has worked in the field of litigation economics for over ten years. Dr. Bonanomi has conducted numerous studies in the field of regional economics. She is a former economics and statistics professor at Rutgers University. She has served as the former Assistant Director of the New York/New Jersey Economic Research Center. Dr. Bonanomi has worked extensively in the field of valuation analysis and damage estimation.

Dr. Bonanomi had published on the topic of economic damages in the Journal of Forensic Economics.

Robert Trout, Ph.D.
CFA Senior Associate
Fields: Forensic Economics, Business Valuation, Finance, Investments and Statistics

Dr. Trout is a leading authority in the field of business valuations and the applications of finance and economics to matters of litigation. He specializes in the application of finance and economics to litigated matters including commercial and securities lawsuits, along with tax cases and the regulations of businesses. He has authored numerous refereed, scholarly journal articles in publications such as the Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Legal Economics and Litigation Economics Review. He is the former managing editor of Litigation Economics Review. He has published extensively in the fields of commercial damages and business valuation. Dr Trout is a former vice-president and member of the board of directors of the National Association of Forensic Economists. He is also a former professor of finance at the University of California.

Norman Swanson, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Fields: Econometrics and Statistics

Dr. Swanson is full professor of econometrics at Rutgers University. Dr. Swanson is the Director of the Ph.D. Program at Rutgers University. Dr. Swanso had also taught at Purdue University, Texas A&M and Penn State. His research focuses on forecasting, time series methodology, financial econometrics, and macroeconometrics. He is an associate editor for several scholarly journals and has published numerous peer reviewed articles in a variety of the top economics and statistics journals including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

John Bonin, Ph.D.
Senior Associate

Dr. Bonin is a professor of economics at Wesleyan University. He is an expert in international economics. He has published extensively on the economics of Eastern Europe. He is an editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Jozef Brada, Ph.D.
Senior Associate

Dr. Brada is a professor of economics at Arizona State University. He is an expert in international economics and specializes in the study of the Soviet and Eastern European economy. He has published numerous books and articles in this area.

Frank Gunter, Ph.D.
Senior Associate

Dr. Gunter is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He is an expert on the economies of South America. He has numerous publications on the economics of this region.

N. Michael Helvacian, Ph.D.
Senior Associate

Dr. Michael Helvacian holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Dr. Helvacian is the former Chief Economist for the National Council for Compensation Insurance. He has also served as an economist for IBM and AT&T. His fields of specialization include valuation analysis and applied microeconomics.

Sorin Tuluca, DBA
Senior Associate

Dr. Sorin Tuluca holds an DBA and MBA in Finance from Cleveland State University and is a full professor of finance at the College of Business at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has published extensively in the fields of investment and finance in publications such as the Financial Review, Journal of Research in Finance and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. His fields of specialization are in corporate finance, securities valuation and investment analysis.