Dr. Siegel's research focuses on the management, strategy, and organizational issues related to cybersecurity, the intelligent integration of information systems, risk management, data analytics, state stability, systems modeling, security of energy delivery systems, and security researchers (aka hackers). He has served as an expert witness and filed expert reports in a number of IT-related litigations for clients such as SAP, JPMorgan, IBM, Kenexa, Fisher Scientific, Ernst & Young, and Macromedia. His expert case work includes matters involving the acquisition of a software firm, software patent litigation and review (e.g., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board case Versata v. SAP), patent infringement and validity analysis, software licensing agreement disputes, and matters involving financial services software and software related to the extraction of data from web pages. Dr. Siegel has published articles on such topics as simulation modeling for cyber resilience, cyber vulnerability markets, data management strategy, architecture for practical metadata integration, heterogeneous database systems, and managing and valuing a corporate IT portfolio using dynamic modeling of software development and maintenance processes.
Professor Kiesling is an expert in energy and regulatory economics, energy history, energy market design, and technology in the development of energy markets, with a particular interest in the electricity industry. Her research focuses on electricity policy and market design issues related to regulation and technological change; the economics of smart grid technologies; and the interaction of market design and innovation in the development of retail energy markets, products, and services. Professor Kiesling has provided expert testimony in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the California Public Utilities Commission, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and the New York Public Service Commission. She teaches at economics workshops for regulators, and lectures to academic, industrial, and regulatory groups about regulatory policy, institutional change, and the economic analysis of electric power market design. Professor Kiesling is the author of two books and numerous articles, book chapters, policy studies, and public interest comments. She serves on the Electricity Advisory Committee for the US Department of Energy, as well as the Academic Advisory Council for the UK Institute of Economic Affairs. Previously, Professor Kiesling was a visiting associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and held positions in the economics departments of Purdue University and Northwestern University.
Mr. Starfield specializes in the direction and management of large-scale cases involving complex economic and financial issues. For more than two decades, he has conducted economic analysis and managed case teams in support of leading academic experts in a range of cases, notably a number of matters involving complex securities, including residential mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and credit default swaps. In matters related to the Lehman bankruptcy, he supported multiple experts in assignments related to structured financial products, secured financing, collateral management, derivatives risk exposure, complex accounting topics, and the causes of Lehman's failure. He also managed case teams in the Enron-related litigations involving some of the major settlements emerging from the Enron bankruptcy. In addition, he has worked on a broad range of cases in the investment management area, including numerous matters involving alleged violations of Sections 10b-5 and 11, in which he provided management of many dimensions of financial and economic analysis, including market efficiency, loss causation and materiality, and damages. Mr. Starfield also worked with mutual fund companies, boards, and regulators in some of the most prominent market timing matters. He managed all aspects of financial and economic analysis in a fraudulent conveyance litigation involving one of the largest bank failures in US history, including identification and support of numerous academic expert witnesses who testified on the economics of the banking industry; conditions in real estate markets; the management, operation, and regulation of nationally chartered commercial banks and bank holding companies; and factors that led to bank failures.
Mr. Contino specializes in the analysis and valuation of residential mortgage loans and securities, to both market participants and in complex litigation. His expertise extends to the valuation of niche security and loan products (e.g. residuals, resecuritizations, SF rental securities, timeshares, second liens). Clients have included broker-dealers, other investment advisors, bankruptcy experts, REITs, insurance companies, pension funds, and US government-sponsored enterprises, among others. Other government experience includes providing quantitative support to a sale advisor to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Small Business Administration, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He provided similar support during the development of the Mortgage Purchase Program for the Federal Home Loan Banks of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Seattle. Mr. Contino took two leaves of absence from Sperlinga Advisory to serve as a mortgage hedge fund portfolio manager, with one of those roles overlapping the mortgage market crisis.
Dr. Strombom is an expert in applied microeconomics, finance, and quantitative and statistical analysis. He provides assistance to attorneys in all phases of pretrial and trial practice, prepares economic and financial models, and provides expert testimony in litigation and public policy matters. Dr. Strombom has conducted assessments of class certification, liability, and damages issues in cases involving antitrust, breach of contract, ERISA, false advertising, intellectual property, labor and employment, product liability, securities, and general commercial disputes.
Ms. Pike has been instrumental in developing bespoke suspicious order monitoring programs; building internal analytical programs to assess the risk of theft or diversion; and assisting manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies in responding to government investigations and/or lawsuits related to controlled substance distribution and dispensing. She has managed a range of health care cases involving analysis of future lost profits; economic analysis of physician payment structures under capitation; studies of the cost effectiveness, budget impacts, and direct and indirect costs of illness associated with a variety of diseases; and pricing analyses for large multinational corporations across numerous industries. Ms. Pike has published numerous articles on related topics in health care economics and clinical journals.
Mr. Gorin's work in antitrust and competition cases has included the analysis of alleged anticompetitive behavior and the evaluation of the competitive impact of mergers and acquisitions in strategic, regulatory, and litigation contexts. In these cases, Mr. Gorin has defined and analyzed relevant markets, assessed potential or past competitive impact, simulated the outcome of mergers and acquisitions in the marketplace, and evaluated potential antitrust remedies. As a leading expert in Analysis Group's Health Care Strategy practice, Mr. Gorin works with diagnostic innovators and manufacturers to develop acquisition and growth strategies, create plans to achieve favorable coverage and reimbursement in the United States and international markets, and design and implement evidence development strategies to support coverage and reimbursement goals. In commercial litigation cases, he regularly leads teams and experts to support clients in matters related to liability and damages, such as valuation, economic harm, accounting, corporate governance, and organizational performance and culture.
Ms. Pinheiro has an extensive background in quantitative analysis and data science, which she has applied to various practice areas, including finance, intellectual property, biostatistics, and antitrust. In finance, she focuses on cases involving allegations of market price manipulation, misleading communications, excessive mutual fund fees, and mortgage-backed securities litigation. In particular, she has been retained by the US Department of Justice, regulatory agencies, banking institutions, and market exchanges to consult, advise, and testify on matters involving allegations of spoofing and price manipulation, as well as corresponding detection approaches. She has also applied survey analysis and statistical modeling to various intellectual property cases, including patent disputes among smartphone manufacturers, copyright tariff setting for musical works, and patent infringement in the pharmaceutical industry. She has extensive experience analyzing clinical trial, registry, and insurance claims data for both litigation and research purposes and has published manuscripts on pharmacoeconomic issues. In the antitrust field, she has acted as an expert and supported other experts in class certification and price-fixing matters involving a wide range of industries, including online search engines, computer chips, liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels, airline ticketing services, gaming, and grocery stores. Ms. Pinheiro has also authored expert reports and testified on questions relating to the modeling and calculation of royalties and damages.
Prior to joining Analysis Group, Ms. Pinheiro served as executive director of the finance group of CIRANO, where she conducted applied research projects in collaboration with private and public partners, including work on hedge funds, style analysis, credit and operational risk, and the development of integrated risk management tools for practical applications.
Mr. Gustafson applies his expertise in economics, econometrics, and modeling to litigation matters, complex business issues, and the analysis of public policy issues. He has worked extensively in the areas of health care, insurance, employment, ERISA, finance, intellectual property, commercial damages, and class certification.
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