Ashok B. Abbott, Associate professor of Finance, West Virginia University

Professor Abbott received his M.B.A. (Finance) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), Blacksburg, VA, in 1984, followed by a Ph.D. in finance, also at VPI, in 1987. His Ph.D. dissertation title was "The valuation effects of tax legislation in corporate sell-offs".

Professor Abbott has over 30 years of experience in evaluation of businesses as a senior bank lender and as a business appraiser. His areas of focus are blockage discount, discount for lack of marketability/liquidity, control premiums, Securities, and event studies. He has also taught at the Graduate school of Credit and Financial Management held at Dartmouth and Stanford University. Professor Abbott provides technical and econometric support for valuation firms. Recent clients include divisions of Standard & Poor's, Duff & Phelps, Willamette Management Associates, Houlihan Valuation Advisors, and members of MBVG and BGBC groups.

Professor Abbott has published extensively in scholarly research journals and made presentations at national and international conferences, some of his recent work pertaining to business valuation discipline includes:

• A Quantitative Measure of Discount for Lack of Liquidity, Business Valuation Review, April 2007
• Liquidity and asset pricing, 5TH ANNUAL VALUATION OF HARD-TO-VALUE SECURITIES AND PORTFOLIOS December 2006, New York
• Emerging Issues in Finance for Business Valuations , CICBV/ASA Sixth Joint Business Valuation Conference, October 2006,Toronto
• The Abbott Index on Discount for Lack of Marketability , presented at the NACVA conference, San Francisco, June 2006
• Revisiting IPO Underperformance: An Excess Liquidity Effect, presented at the Eastern Finance Association, Philadelphia, April 2006
• Revisiting Liquidity Underperformance: Excess liquidity Effect, presented at the Southern Finance Association, Key West , November 2005 2006
• Identifying Active and Passive Appreciation using Econometric Analysis, Business Valuation Update, December 2005
• Measuring Discounts for lack of Liquidity, presented at the NACVA conference, Philadelphia, June 2005
• Quantifying Marketability Discounts: New Research and Its Practical Application Presented with Dan Van Vleet at ASA CURRENT TOPICS IN BUSINESS VALUATIONS - 2005, May 2005, New York
• Role of liquidity in Asset Pricing, proceedings of International Conference on Business and Finance, December 2004, Hyderabad, India
• Estimated holding period for listed securities, Valuation Strategies 4 (Sept/Oct 2004)
• “Valuing Businesses in Divorce: Emphasis on Passive and Active Appreciation”, co-authored with Tim Voit, published in Vol. 5, Issue 3 CCH
• Business Valuation Alert, April 2004,(reprinted with permission in the Journal of Tax Practice Management, March-April 2004. Published simultaneously in the CPA-Law Forum Newsletter, and the Florida Bar Family Law Commentator, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Fall 2004)
• Untangling the Web of Discounts: Marketability, Liquidity, and Control Issues in Valuation, proceedings of Institute of Business Appraisers Meeting, Las Vegas, June 2004;
• Re-examining the Risk and Return effects of Joint Ventures, proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Business” Honolulu, June 2004, with Tuncer Gocman
• Strategic Flexibility and Firm Performance: The Case of US Based Transnational corporations, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2003 Vol4, Nos. 1&2, pp1-8 (lead article)
• Discount for lack of marketability: evidence from NASDAQ delistings; Business Valuation Review, December 2003
• New Flexible Paradigms in Equity Valuation: Knowledge Based Enterprises; Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management- 2001 Vol 2. No.1

Cindy Eddins Collier, MHA, MSA, CPA, ABV, CVA, CMPE

Cindy Eddins Collier, MHA, MSA, CPA, ABV, CVA, CMPE, is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Healthcare Valuation Solutions located in Myrtle Beach, SC, which provides valuation and strategic financial management consulting services to health care companies throughout the United States. Professional consulting services focus on health care business valuation, fair market valuation of physician services, valuation of intangible assets, economic loss assessment, health care business accounts receivable management, mergers & acquisitions, financial analysis and research, strategic management, physician integration, purchase and/or sale of medical practices, medical device companies, long-term care companies, and hospitals, and litigation support. Clients include a variety of physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, dental practices, long term care businesses, dental practices, university and community hospitals, integrated delivery systems, medical device companies, healthcare technology companies, medical service providers, harmaceutical and biotech companies, professional associations, attorneys, consultants, and managed care payers.

Cindy has served an adjunct professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Scholar at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance. Cindy served as a Center Scholar in the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies (HOPES) at the Ohio State University School of Medicine. In addition, Cindy is a lecturer in the Duke University Medical School in Durham, North Carolina, and in the Darden raduate School of Business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2002, Cindy was awarded the Batten Institute Fellowship at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, a lifetime fellowship. She teaches MBA courses and advises students at Darden in the area of health care finance. In addition, Cindy has served as an Adjunct Professor, Life Care Planner Program Faculty, Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio, since 2003. The Capital University Law School Life Care Planner program has been approved by the Commission on Health Care Certification (CHCC) as well as the American Bar Association (ABA). Cindy served as a member of the 2004 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, administered by the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

William C. Dameworth, CPA/ABV, CVA, BVAL

Managing Director of ComStock Advisors managing the Winston-Salem office. Formerly Senior Manager and Director of the Business Valuation and Litigation Services group in the Piedmont Triad Practice offices of Dixon Odom PLLC (NOW DIXON HUGHES). Business valuation and litigation services experience includes rendering services in over 500 engagements for a wide variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, gift, estate, family law matters, shareholder disputes, shareholder buyouts, buy/sell agreements, charitable contributions, purchase price allocation, goodwill impairment testing, intangible asset valuation, mergers and acquisitions, ESOPs, business damages, professional malpractice, lost profits, misappropriation of funds, fraud, misrepresentation, adequacy of financial recovery, asset tracing, and active/passive appreciation analysis. These services have been performed for corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies across the manufacturing, wholesale, retail and service sectors.

Experience includes the performance of traditional accounting, audit and tax services for a diverse group of business and individual clients. Tenures as a commercial lending officer and bank credit officer provided extensive training, experience and skill in industry analysis, economic analysis, financial analysis, and financial forecasting and modeling. Has provided deposition and/or court testimony in various state courts in North and South Carolina, in the North Carolina Business Court, and in Federal court. Experience includes both bench and jury trials. Has worked to establish values and consult on disputes for both litigants. Representation in litigated matters includes plaintiff, defendant and mutual.

Jay Fishman, FASA

Jay Fishman , FASA is a Managing Director of Financial Research Associates and has been actively engaged in the appraisal profession since 1974. He specializes in the valuations of business enterprises and their intangible. Mr. Fishman has co-authored several books, including the recently released Standards of Value: Theory and Applications and the highly acclaimed Guide to Business Valuations (both with Shannon Pratt) , and written numerous articles on business valuation as well as qualifying as an expert witness and providing testimony in twelve states. He has taught courses on business valuation to the Internal Revenue Service, the National Judicial College , and the Hong Kong Society of Accountants, on behalf of the World Bank in St. Petersburg , Russia and most recently in Moscow , Russia

He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Temple University as well as an M.B.A. from LaSalle University . Mr. Fishman is a Fellow of the American Society of Appraisers, a former Chairman of the Business Valuation Committee of the American Society of Appraisers, Editor of the Business Valuation Review , Chair of ASA's Government Relations Committee, a former Trustee of the Appraisal Foundation, Chair of its Task Force on Best Practices for Financial Reporting and was appointed to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee in 2008.

Carole Gailor, JD

Carole Gailor started practice in family law litigation in Virginia in 1978. She and her family moved to North Carolina in 1982 where she continued practicing family law with Boyce, Mitchell, Burns and Smith in Raleigh. In 1986, she joined the Raleigh office of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice as a litigation partner practicing there until 1994, when she opened Gailor & Associates, PLLC (now Gailor, Wallis & Hunt, PLLC). Carole has maintained an extensive domestic relations litigation practice throughout North Carolina. She is a certified financial mediator and has acted as a mediator and arbitrator in family law disputes for many years. Her expertise in the areas of business valuation and financial analysis enable her to understand and successfully contest or defend complex business valuations at trial or arbitration.

Throughout her career, Carole has devoted time and energy to improving the quality of the practice of family law. She served on the committee to rewrite and implement the Wake County Domestic Court Rules, promoting early financial disclosure in support cases. She has taught numerous family law courses, and has been a Board Certified Family Law Specialist since 1989.

Carole was admitted to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 1997 where she sits on the national Board of Governors for the North Carolina Chapter. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Jim Hitchner, CPA/ABV, ASA

James R. Hitchner, CPA/ABV, ASA, is managing director of The Financial Valuation Group (FVG) in Atlanta , Georgia . FVG is a national financial advisory services firm specializing in valuation and litigation services. He is a founding member and president of the Financial Consulting Group, L.C. (FCG), a national association of professional services firms providing valuation, financial and litigation consulting.

Mr. Hitchner has more than 29 years of professional experience, including 27 years in valuation services and two years in real estate development. He spent over seven years with Phillips Hitchner Group and was also partner-in-charge of valuation services for the Southern Region of Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he spent more than nine years. He was also employed as a senior appraiser with American Appraisal Associates, in both the financial and industrial valuation groups.

He has been recognized as a qualified expert witness and has provided testimony on valuations in numerous state and federal courts. In the valuation area he has coauthored 20 courses, taught over 50 courses, published over 50 articles, and has made over 100 conference presentations including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), and numerous state CPA societies. He has also been a faculty member teaching valuation courses for judges for the National Judicial College and the Flaschner Judicial Institute. He has also been involved in hundreds of intangible asset valuations and was also an ad hoc advisor to the FASB on its deliberations concerning SFAS 141/142 and presented a session on valuing and lifing intangible assets.  

Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of the book Financial Valuation Applications and Models, second edition ; coauthor of the book Financial Valuation Workbook, second edition; and co-author of the book Valuation for Financial Reporting: Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment Analysis—SFAS 141 and 142 all published by Wiley . Two of his books have been adopted by the AICPA for its six-day Business Valuation Essentials course and by NACVA for its three-day Advanced Business Valuation course. He is editor in chief of Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert , a bimonthly journal that presents views and tools from some of the leading experts in valuation, forensics/fraud and litigation services. He serves on the editorial board of Business Valuation Update and is a contributing editor to the AICPA's CPA Expert.

He is an inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame and current member of the AICPA task force on business valuation standards. Mr. Hitchner is past chairman of the business valuation committee of the Georgia Society of CPAs, past member of the AICPA business valuation subcommittee, past member of the AICPA ABV exam committee, past chairman of the ABV exam review course committee. He has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in business administration degree from Rider University . He holds the AICPA Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV) specialty designation and also is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with the American Society of Appraisers.

John R. Johnson, CPA, ABV, CBA, BCFA

John R. Johnson, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Accredited by the American Institute of CPA's in business valuation (ABV), Certified Business Appraiser (CBA), Board Certified Forensic Accountant (BCFA), is a Managing Partner of BST Valuation & Litigation Advisors, LLC with Offices in Albany, NY and New York City.

He has been involved in over 1,500 valuation and litigation engagements for involving matrimonial matters and has been appointed by NYS Supreme Courts in over 500 cases. Mr. Johnson has frequently provided testimony in support of his findings in State Supreme Court, Federal District Court, and in formal arbitration proceedings. He is a frequent lecturer and author on valuation and other financial topics for such organizations as the New York State Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, American Society of Appraisers, the New York State Office of Court Administration and the New York State Judicial Institute.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Institute of Business Appraisers, Inc., National Association of Forensic Economics, American Board of Forensic Accountants, the Estate Planning Council of Eastern New York and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. Additionally, Mr. Johnson was appointed by Justice Judith Kay, Chief Justice of the New York State Court of Appeals, to serve on her statewide Commission to examine the matrimonial litigation process and recommend possible reforms.

Steven M. Levitt, Co-Founder, Park Sutton Advisors

Frank A. Louis, Esq.

Frank A Louis is the founding partner of Louis, Stolfe & Zeigler, a matrimonial boutique firm located in Toms River, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (Cum Laude) and Rutgers Law School (Newark). The firm, or it's predecessors, have been in practice since 1973.

Mr. Louis served as the Chair of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and President of the Ocean County Bar Association, where he also chaired the local Family Law Committee for several years. He also served as an Emeritus member of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section. He is a Diplomate Member of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, an organization limited to 100 members in the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and has received an "A" rating in Martindale-Hubbell. He was selected by Governor Florio as the New Jersey State Bar Association's representative to the Commission to Study the Law of Divorce.

Mr. Louis has been a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Family Part Practice Committee since its inception. He has also been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve on the following Committees: Special Committee on Matrimonial Litigation, Family Automated Case System, Economic Consequences of Dissolution Committee, Complimentary Dispute Resolution Task Force, the Appointment of Fiduciary and Counsel Committee and the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education.

In 2006 Mr. Louis was awarded the Alfred C. Clapp Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education from the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. In 1990 he received the Tischler Award for his contributions to the advancement of Family Law from the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. In 1980 Mr. Louis received the Young Lawyer Award from the Ocean County Bar Association.

Mr. Louis has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers of America for over ten years. He was selected as a "Super Lawyer". In 2005 and in each subsequent year, he was one of the Top Ten vote getters in the State of New Jersey poll conducted for the Super Lawyers Edition of New Jersey Monthly Magazine. In 2006 he was the highest vote getter in New Jersey and in 2007 he received the third highest vote total among all New Jersey lawyers. In 2008 he was recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in New Jersey by Super Lawyers.

Mr. Louis has lectured extensively for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education; the Administrative Office of the Courts; the New Jersey Chapter of the American Trial Lawyers Association; the Ocean/ Monmouth, Middlesex, Bergen and Essex County Bar Associations and the Ocean-Monmouth and New Jersey Society of CPA's. He has authored over 35 published articles and been moderator and presenter at over 40 ICLE seminars and conferences. His articles have been cited by Courts in New Jersey on numerous occasions in both reported and unreported opinions.

Allan Mayefsky, JD

Allan graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978 after receiving his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Cornell where he was
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Lambda Phi. In more than 28 years as an attorney, Allan has had extensive trial experience, including
successfully trying to conclusion some of the largest equitable distribution cases in New York.

Allan is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the International Academy of Matrimonial La\tvyers, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association (Executive Committee of the Family Law Section). From June 2004 through February 2006, Allan served as a member of the Matrimonial Commission that was appointed by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye.
The Commission's findings were reported in February 2006 and are now the basis for improving litigation in both Family Court and the Supreme Court. Allan has lectured and written on numerous topics in the area of family law. He is the author of a law review article on the Constitutionality of Section 516 of the Family Court P"ct, vvhich limits the ability of a mother of an illegitimate child to modify an agreement on child support that proves to be inadequate, while not so limiting a mother of a legitimate child.

Allan and his wife Carol reside in Chappaqua, New York. They have two children.

Z. Christopher Mercer, ASA, CFA

Z. Christopher Mercer is founder and chief executive officer of Mercer Capital, a business valuation and investment banking firm serving a national and international clientele. Chris began his valuation career in the late 1970s. He has prepared, overseen, or contributed to hundreds, if not thousands, of valuations for purposes related to M&A, litigation, and tax, among others. He is a prolific author on valuation-related topics and one of the most sought after speakers on business valuation issues for national professional associations and other business and professional groups.

Chris is the sole author of six books including Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions? (Peabody Publishing, LP, 2007), Valuing Shareholder Cash Flows: Quantifying Marketability Discounts (Peabody Publishing, LP, 2005), Valuing Enterprise and Shareholder Cash Flows: The Integrated Theory of Business Valuation (Peabody Publishing, LP, 2004), Quantifying Marketability Discounts (Peabody Publishing, LP, 2001, & 1997), and Valuing Financial Institutions (Business One Irwin, 1992), and is a contributing author to Valuation for Impairment Testing (Peabody Publishing, LP, 2001). He has also published scores of articles and given numerous speeches on topics related to business valuation and investment banking.

Chris' latest book is Business Valuation: An Integrated Theory, Second Edition , which he co-authored with Travis Harms (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., September 2007).

William J. Morrison, CPA/ABV

William J. Morrison is the president of Morrison & Company, a forensic accounting firm located in Paramus, New Jersey. He is a CPA licensed in New Jersey and Florida with over 30 years experience as an investigator, forensic accountant, and business valuator.
Mr. Morrison has been appointed as an expert for the federal and state courts in New Jersey in over one thousand matters as a forensic accountant, valuation expert, and mediator. He has provided expert witness services in complex civil and criminal matters
involving stockholder oppression, high net worth divorces, and economic damage claims, among others.

Mr. Morrison has lectured frequently to organizations such as the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the New Jersey State Society of Certified Public Accountants on topics such as the maintenance of attorney trust accounts and forensic accounting. He has pubHshed numerous articles on business valuation and forensic accounting in publications such as Valuing Professional Practices and Licenses
published by Aspen. He is the coauthor of Standards of Value: Theory and Applications published by Wiley in October 2006.

David Politziner, CPA

David E. Politziner CPA is an Officer in the accounting firm of Amper, Politziner & Mattia, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, which has offices in New Jersey and New York. He is the Officer-in-Charge of the finn's Bridgewater office and the Director of the finn's Litigation and Valuation Group.

David received a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 1971 and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Rutgers University in 1969. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and New Jersey, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is the former President ofthe HunterdonIWarren Chapter ofthe NJSCPA.

David has 30 years experience serving as a technical resource to attorneys in their litigation actions. Some of the areas which he has been called upon to render expert advice and testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants include business valuations, damage assessments, lost profit calculations, matrimonial matters, shareholder disputes, malpractice matters, and the sale or purchase of a business. He has also been appointed by Judges in various counties to act as an expert witness in the above types of matters and issue reports for the court on these cases.

A frequent presenter for numerous professional and civic organizations, David has spoken at the New Jersey State Bar association's Mid-Year Meeting, the Annual Conference of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association on numerous occasions in Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, etc., and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in various programs including "Valuing a Business, " "Hot Tips in Family Law" and "Tax Aspects of Family Law." David has also spoken before attorneys regarding practice management ideas and is frequently quoted by local newspapers and business
publications on various issues.

Tom Reck, CPA/ABV

Thomas Reck is a licensed CPA in the state of New Jersey. He is accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

He has twenty years experience in public accounting. His experience includes tax preparation, the preparation of financial statements and non-profit work. For the past twelve years, Mr. Reck has specialized in forensic accounting, business valuations, cash flow and life style analysis and white collar crime. He has been involved in a multitude of cases and has testified in matrimonial matters before the Court.

Michael A. Saponara, CPA/ABV, J.D., M.A.

Michael A. Saponara, CPA/ABV, J.D., M.A. is a Director at Financial Research Associates, with offices in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Mr. Saponara has specialized in litigation support since 1994 and has frequently provided expert testimony on business valuations, lifestyle needs, net worth calculations and other forensic accounting analyses. He has also testified in complex commercial damage cases and other corporate litigation.
Mr. Saponara obtained a J.D. in 1993 from Villanova University and an M.A. in Economics in 2004 from Temple University. Mr. Saponara is a CPA and holds an Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV) from the AICPA.

Mr. Saponara combines his accounting and legal background with his business expertise, to provide enhanced analyses to clients. Mr. Saponara has presented courses on forensic accounting and litigation support for various accounting societies and professional associations, and has published articles and course materials on litigation support services.

Don Schiller, Esq.

Mr. Schiller is a founder and name partner of the Chicago law firm of Schiller DuCanto and Fleck LLP, the nation's largest matrimonial law firm. He also teaches Divorce Practice at The University of Chicago Law School. He was: President of the Illinois State Bar Association and previously served as Chair of the State Bar's Family Law Section; a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and continues to serve on its faculty for family law programs; a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, and previously served as Chair of the ABA's Family Law Section, and is on the faculty of the ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute. He has served Illinois Courts: Chairing the Circuit Court of Cook County 's Domestic Relations Management Advisory Committee for seven years and currently co-chairs the Domestic Relations Division's Rules Committee. He was National Chair of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' Continuing Legal Education Committee, and is a Diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. He has been recognized as one of Illinois' and the Country's top matrimonial lawyers by: Town and Country Magazine, Worth Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, National Law Journal, Crain's Chicago Business and is one of Law Dragon's 500. Schiller is listed in all editions of The Best Lawyers In America and this year was chosen as one of Illinois ' top 10 lawyers by both Super Lawyers and Leading Lawyers Network. He is the subject of a chapter in the book The Divorce Lawyers authored by Emily Couric.

Hon. Jacqueline Silbermann

Justice Jacqueline Winter Silbermann graduated Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1959. In 1972, Justice Silbermann graduated Cum Laude from Fordham University School of Law.

Upon graduation from law school, Justice Silbermann worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, P.C. and sUbsequently became a law secretary to Civil Court JUdge Irving Smith and thereafter, Supreme Court Justices, Joseph R. Marro and Jacob Grumet. From 1978 to 1983 Justice Silbermann was engaged in the private practice of law.

Justice Silbermann was elected to the Civil Court in November, 1983. In 1987, Justice Silbermann was appointed Supervising Judge of the Civil Court, New York County. In 1989, Justice Silbermann was appointed the Administrative Judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York (the first woman to hold that position). Justice Silbermann held this position until January, 1997, at which time she became Statewide Administrative Judge for Matrimonial Matters. In March of 2001, Justice Silbermann was also appointed the Administrative Judge of the Supreme Court, Civil Term in New York County. On January 1, 2007 Justice Silbermann was designated Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Matrimonial Matters.

Justice Silbermann is an active member of many bar associations, including The City Bar, The New York Women's Bar Association, New York County Lawyers Association and the New York State Bar Association. She has received numerous awards including the Ruth G. Schapiro Award, the Harlan Fiske Stone Memorial Award, Benjamin N. Cardozo Award, Louis Capozzoli Gavel Award, New York Women's Bar President's Award, and the Doris Hoffman Memorial Award from the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York.

Justice Silbermann's most important job is grandmotherto her grandchildren, Rachel, Jesse and Justin.

Ken Springer, Certified Fraud Examiner

Mr. Springer, a Certified Fraud Examiner, is President and founder of Corporate Resolutions Inc. A former Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Springer has conducted business-related investigations and intelligence gathering for over twenty-five years. Prior to founding Corporate Resolutions Inc. in 1991, he was President of Bishops Services, Inc., an investigative firm in New York City.

In his twelve-year FBI career, Mr. Springer conducted many sophisticated investigations of white-collar crime to include internal and external bank and wire frauds, and Wall Street related crimes. Mr. Springer has operated in the private sector for 20 years and has conducted and directed thousands of complex fact-finding, fraud, asset and forensic investigations of individuals and business entities.

 A 1975 graduate of Siena College with a B.S. in finance, Mr. Springer is an active member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Compliance and Legal Division of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Association for Independent Private Sector Inspectors General (IPSIG), Turnaround Management Association, the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Managed Funds Association, New York Private Equity Network and the European Venture Capital Association. He is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on private equity, capital markets, due diligence issues, asset searches and internal corporate investigations.