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About the Authors

Editors

Dwight Steward, Ph.D
Econ One Research, Inc. - Practice Director
Austin, Texas

Dwight Steward, Ph.D., is an economist who has provided economic and statistical consulting on a wide range of issues for the legal, business, and government communities. He has extensive experience researching issues concerning lost earnings, lost profits, and employment-related issues. Dr. Steward has provided expert witness testimony in numerous cases in state and federal courts. In addition to working as an expert and consultant, he has also held teaching positions in the Department of Economics and College of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and at Sam Houston State University.

Charles Mahla, Ph.D
Econ One Research, Inc. - Practice Director
Sacremento, California

Charles R. Mahla, Ph.D., has been engaged in economic analysis and consulting for 15 years. He has extensive experience with the calculation of damages in injury, employment, antitrust, contract dispute, and intellectual property matters. Dr. Mahla also has significant experience with issues relating to wireless telecom, landline, and cable industries.

Contributing Authors

Michael Sadler, Ph.D
CRA International Incorporated - Principal
Houston, Texas

Dr. Sadler has more than seventeen years of experience providing expertise and analysis in the areas of economics, valuation, forecasting, and financial analysis. As part of CRA’s Houston office, he manages projects and serves as a testifying expert on behalf of clients facing commercial disputes. Dr. Sadler is also a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining CRA, he was a senior director with Aon Consulting. In this role, he managed the Economics practice for the Financial Advisory and Litigation Consulting (FALCon) division; projects were typically related to commercial disputes, and Dr. Sadler served as an expert witness in a number of cases.

M. Douglas Berg, Ph.D.
Sam Houston State University
Houston, Texas

Doug Berg is currently an tenured Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business at Sam Houston State University. His research interests include diverse applied microeconomic topics such as racial profiling and the forecasting of oil production in the United States. Dr. Berg has authored numerous papers, serves on many academic and professional comittes, and routinely serves as a economic expert witness in injury, wrongful death, and other types of litigation. Prior to graduate school, he worked as an accountant in the corporate world for about ten years.

Larry W. Lacy, Ph.D.
H2O Partners, Inc.
Austin, Texas

Larry Lacy is a Ph.D. economist with over thirty years experience in risk management and applying advanced economic analysis to a wide variety of public policy issues. Dr. Lacy has conducted numerous cost-benefit analyses of alternatives, including mitigation options and ways to reduce risk. A former consultant to The Rand Corporation, Dr. Lacy served as an economist in numerous Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. He has conducted numerous analyses of cost-benefit of alternatives.

Chad Shirley, Ph.D
Cornerstone Research
Los Angeles, California

Chad Shirley is an Associate with Cornerstone Research, where he is responsible for research and analysis on a variety of economic topics in support of litigation and expert testimony in general damages and intellectual property cases. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he was an Economist with Econ One Research, providing research, analysis, case management, and expert testimony on economic issues related to industry structure and performance. He also worked previously as an Associate Economist with the Rand Corporation.

Scott Angelius
Econ One Research, Inc. - Senior Analyst
Austin, Texas

Scott Angelius is an experienced analyst responsible for providing economic/statistical research for a variety of projects. He has particular expertise in modeling for wrongful death and wrongful termination matters.

Jeannie Elliott
Econ One Research, Inc. - Senior Analyst
Austin, Texas

Jeannie Elliott is an experienced research analyst specializing in the analysis of employee compensation including company level pay systems and individual employees' past and future earnings profiles in employment discrimination and injury cases.

Bradley Abbott
Econ One Research, Inc. - Senior Analyst
Sacramento, California

Bradley Abbott is an experienced analyst responsible for providing economic/statistical research for a variety of projects. He has worked on valuation issues, antitrust and intellectual property matters.

Amy Raub, MA
CRA International Incorporated - Consulting Associate
Washington, D.C.

Amy Raub, Consulting Associate, is a member of CRA’s Competition practice with experience in areas such as employment and discrimination litigation. Prior to joining CRA, she was a senior analyst with Econ One Research. There, her responsibilities included conducting economic analyses, damages calculations, and litigation support. Ms. Raub has contributed to a number of publications concerning labor and damages issues and was published most recently in the Journal of Forensic Economics.

R. Alexander Garcia
Arthur D. Little, INC. – Business Analyst
Houston, Texas

R. Alexander Garcia is a business analyst for Arthur D. Little’s global energy practice. As part of Arthur D. Little’s Houston office, he engages in energy projects involving statistical, financial and econometric modeling for oil companies and government agencies throughout the world. Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, INC., he was a Research Analyst for Econ One Research, Inc. In this role, his primary area of concentration involved the determination of economic damages for legal disputes within the energy industry.

Rick Bosworth, MBA
Aero® - Manager
Austin, Texas

Rick Bosworth has a diverse array of experiences in engineering and marketing of high technology products and services. After spending 12 years in various technical engineering roles with large public enterprises within the semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment industries, Rick transitioned into marketing management roles with privately-held companies such as Legerity and Econ One, and is presently a Product Marketing Manager with a privately-held, international semiconductor firm. He holds a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.