Founder & CEO

Curtis has over 20 years of business valuation and litigation consulting experience. Areas of expertise include partnership, corporation and shareholder disputes, valuation of distressed companies, estate and gift tax valuations, economic damages and wrongful termination. Curtis is a Certified Valuation Analyst, Accredited in Business Valuation by the AICPA and Certified in Financial Forensics by the AICPA and holds a Certification in Distress Business Valuation from the Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisors, AIRA.

Professional Affiliations

• Past Trustee and Chair — Board of Trustees, Golden Gate University
• Board Chair — Rotary Foundation, San Francisco
• Member Dean's Advisory Board — School of Accounting, and Golden Gate University
• Co-Chair — Practicing Law Institute program "Accounting for Lawyers"
• Business Valuation instructor — Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisors
• Member — Association of Insolvency Restructuring Advisors
• Member — American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Member — California Society of CPA's (CalCPA)
• Member — National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA)

Education

• Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration — Golden Gate University
• MBA/Taxation — Golden Gate University
• BA/Accounting — Golden Gate University

Favorite Quote

“The right thing and the easy thing aren’t always the same thing." — Ted Simendinger