Business Operations Expert Witnesses

Fraud, Accounting - Financial, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting, Bankruptcy, Business Damages, Economics, Mining, Business Operations, Accounting investigations, Forensic investigations, Litigation support, Litigation services

Chris Linscott is the Director of Keegan Linscott & Associates consulting practice with more than thirty-five years of experience. His background includes eight years with KPMG Peat Marwick in the New York City and Boston offices, two years with Coopers & Lybrand in Tucson, two years as a CFO in industry and twenty-six years with Keegan Linscott & Associates. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. Chris has served as an expert witness and consultant to attorneys involved in litigation throughout the country. He has also served as a Financial Advisor to Debtors and Creditor Committees in Chapter 11, served as a Chapter 11 Trustee, court appointed Receiver, Financial Fiduciary, Special Master and Examiner in various court cases. Chris is adept at analyzing allegations of fraud in civil, criminal, and bankruptcy matters and working with counsel to understand the financial aspects of litigation. He has testified ...

Financial, Business Damages - Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial, Insolvency, Forensic Accounting, Bankruptcy, Business damages, Data mining, Business Operations, Accounting investigations, Forensic investigations, Litigation support, Litigation services.

Sean is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with more than 16 years of public accounting and industry experience. A few of Sean’s notable areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions (buy and sell), financial analysis and investigative financial review, consolidations and complex financial reporting (business plans, budgeting, and forecasting), transfer pricing, ERP implementation, debt and equity financing arrangements (fundraising, warrants, options, convertible notes, etc.), and issues associated with costing of production efforts and inventory. Sean joined the Audit Department of Plante Moran upon graduation from Michigan State University where he spent 8 years providing audit, tax, due diligence and other consulting services to large manufacturing, distribution, and retail companies throughout the world. Sean subsequently went to work for one of his clients, Dart Container, where he was responsible for the corporate accounting functi...

Supply Chain, Products Liability - Business Operations, Personal Injury, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Product Safety, Product Liability, Product Design, Quality Control, Distribution, Logistics, Safety Testing, Product Recall, Procurement, Safety Testing, Packaging, Operations, Labeling, Industry Standards, Best Practices

Dr. Zal Phiroz is a supply chain professor, and expert on manufacturing vulnerabilities causing personal injury, product liability, product recall, product defect, quality control, packaging and distribution. As a practitioner, Dr. Phiroz has held senior supply chain roles at Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG). As an academic, he has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, USC, MSU, and is a regularly invited keynote speaker on Supply Chain topics. In addition to holding a PhD in Supply Chain Management, Dr. Phiroz is a Harvard fellow, and currently a member of faculty at Rady School of Business, University of California, San Diego. The following are some examples of areas Dr. Phiroz has opined on: - Injury due to manufacturing design, inefficient storage, product testing, and quality assurance. - Industry standards for inventory transportation, storage, packaging, labeling, and quality testing. - Consumer demand and behavior analysis. - Supply chain design and funct...

Business Valuation, Accounting - Appraisal, Valuation, Forensic Accounting, Business Damages, Fraud, Business Operations, Financial, Economics, Management, CPA, Accountant, Tax, Business Divorce, Appraisal & Valuation

Business Operations, Transportation - Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing, Transportation, Sourcing, Logistics, Inventory Control, Aviation Logistics, Aviation, Military Logistics, Trucking, Business Operations, Material Handling, Forklift and Forklift safety

Dr. Michels is a licensed professional industrial engineer. He has provided depositions and testified in state and federal courts all over the USA. He has led organizations in major metal manufacturing operations, responsible for over 1700 vehicles in fleets to include all types of vehicles-- long haul trucks, local delivery trucks and freight line trucks, watercraft. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) and Certified Professional Logistician (CPL). He has managed over 2 Million square feet of industrial and warehouse space in the Arctic, Pacific and the United States. He has testified in state and federal courts on logistics, manufacturing, transportation and supply chain matters. He was the Dean of the College of Business at Montana State University-Billings, as well as the Dean, School of Systems and Logistics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio. He is certified by SOLE, the International Society of Logistics as a Certified Professional Logistician. ...

Supply Chain, Products Liability - Business Operations, Personal Injury, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Product Safety, Product Liability, Product Design, Quality Control, Distribution, Logistics, Safety Testing, Product Recall, Procurement, Safety Testing, Packaging, Operations, Labeling, Industry Standards, Best Practices

Dr. Zal Phiroz is a supply chain professor, and expert on manufacturing vulnerabilities causing personal injury, product liability, product recall, product defect, quality control, packaging and distribution. As a practitioner, Dr. Phiroz has held senior supply chain roles at Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG). As an academic, he has held faculty appointments at Harvard University, USC, MSU, and is a regularly invited keynote speaker on Supply Chain topics. In addition to holding a PhD in Supply Chain Management, Dr. Phiroz is a Harvard fellow, and currently a member of faculty at Rady School of Business, University of California, San Diego. The following are some examples of areas Dr. Phiroz has opined on: - Injury due to manufacturing design, inefficient storage, product testing, and quality assurance. - Industry standards for inventory transportation, storage, packaging, labeling, and quality testing. - Consumer demand and behavior analysis. - Supply chain design and funct...