Business Valuation Conference

P. Dermot O’Neill, CPA, ABV, CVA, MAFF, ABAR
President
P. Dermot O’Neill, CPA PC

P. Dermot O’Neill is a CPA, ABV, CVA, MAFF, ABAR with over 40 years of public accounting experience. Dermot’s practice concentrates in the areas of income taxation, forensic accounting, litigation support, business valuation, transaction consulting, and financial analysis.  He has provided consulting and expert witness assistance in cases involving oppressed shareholders, personal injury, wrongful death, accounting malpractice, and contract and tort issues.  He has testified as an expert in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Arizona, the Chancery Court of Delaware as well as Federal Bankruptcy Court and Federal District Court.

Dermot is an adjunct instructor at Rider University College of Business Administration, Graduate Studies.  He has been an adjunct lecturer at Villanova University as well as a guest lecturer at Widener University, Drexel University and Lehigh University Graduate Schools of Business. He has presented continuing professional education seminars sponsored by various state accounting institutes and societies, bar associations and universities.  He received his B.S. in Economics from Villanova University.

Oct. 2018

John E. Mitchell, CPA, ABV, CFF, CVA
Partner-in-Charge
Marks Paneth LLP

John E. Mitchell, CPA, is the Partner-in-Charge of litigation consulting, business valuation, and accounting and auditing. Mr. Mitchell has completed damages analysis, business valuation, investigative accounting, auditing and other types of engagements for a variety of clients and end users, including attorneys, bankers, and the courts. As part of providing litigation consulting, business valuation and investigative accounting services, Mr. Mitchell has provided expert witness testimony in several jurisdictions (including the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (multiple counties), the United States District Court (Eastern District), the Delaware Court of Chancery, and the New Jersey Superior Court) and arbitration venues (including AAA and FINRA). Mr. Mitchell’s accounting and auditing practice includes privatelyheld and venturebacked companies in the technology, business services, manufacturing/distribution, real estate and nonprofit sectors.

Charles S. Lunden, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE, CLU, FLMI, CMA
Partner
Bederson & Co., LLP

Charles S. Lunden, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE, CLU, FLMI, CMA is a partner at Bederson LLP, and testified nationally at trial or depositions on over 100 occasions involving damages and business valuations. In addition to speaking frequently on these topics, he is Past Chairman of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPA Committee on Forensic and Litigation Services and is active with the Business Valuation committee, being responsible for responding to proposed changes in professional standards. He is a contributing editor to the National Litigation Consultant’s Review.

John J. Barton, ASA, CPA
President
Brandywine Valuation Consultants, LLC

John is the President of Brandywine Valuation Consultants, LLC (BVC). He is responsible for the analysis and valuation of closely-held equities and intangible assets. He also provides expert witness testimony in litigation matters. Before starting BVC, John was Vice President at Murray, Devine & Company, a valuation firm providing financial and security services to corporate and individual clients.

John holds an MBA from La Salle University as well as an M.A. from Fordham University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a senior member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).

John currently serves on the Course Development Committee for the International Institute of Business Valuers (IIBV). He wrote the international cost of capital course for the Institute and is the lead developer in charge of course content for an the rest of the valuation curriculum which will be taught throughout Europe, China, the Middle East and South America. He also will teach the IIBV’s valuation curriculum to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) in the summer of 2011.

Mark L. Zyla, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFA, ASA
Managing Director
Acuitas, Inc.

Mark L. Zyla is a Managing Director of Acuitas, Inc. an Atlanta Georgia based valuation and litigation consultancy firm. Mr. Zyla has provided valuation consulting for various types of entities for the purposes of mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax planning, corporate recapitalizations, as well as valuing various types of intellectual property and other intangible assets for many purposes. Prior to rejoining Acuitas, he was a Principal with a national business valuation and financial advisory firm. Additionally, he was formerly the practice leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers’s Corporate Finance Consulting Group for the Southeastern U.S.

Marc Bello, CPA/ABV, CVA, MAAF, CFF, MST
Partner
Edelstein & Company LLP

Marc is a nationally recognized expert in business valuation and forensic accounting. He has appeared as an expert witness in the United States Tax Court as well as Massachusetts Superior Courts and Probate Courts. Attorneys seek Marc’s expertise in the area of litigation support, serving as an expert witness in the areas of business valuation, forensic accounting, lost profits, business interruption, economic damages and taxation. Marc is highly valued because of his ability to present and explain in a clear and compelling manner the often complex facts involved in high stakes disputes.

Marc regularly provides business valuations in the context of marital dissolution, shareholder and partner disputes, financial reporting, gift and estate planning, business planning and decision-making