[May 22, 2017] |
|
Analysis Group Welcomes New Affiliates, Announces Consultant Promotions
Analysis Group, one of the largest private economics consulting firms,
announces the promotion of 41 consultants and welcomes seven new
affiliates to the firm.
"We are pleased to recognize the outstanding efforts of our consultants,
as well as the addition of such impressive new affiliates, all of whom
are recognized leaders in their respective fields," said CEO and
Chairman Martha S. Samuelson.
NEW AFFILIATES
Shannon
W. Anderson, a professor of management at the UC Davis
Graduate School of Management, conducts research on the design of cost
accounting systems and on how firms use management control practices to
mitigate risk and facilitate collaboration in inter-firm transactions.
This research includes performance measurement, incentive contracting,
supply chain contracting, and operations management. Professor Anderson
uses empirical analysis of firm-level accounting and operational data to
test economic theories about firm performance. She also has experience
designing and administering surveys and analyzing survey data. Her
published work has employed data from many industries, including
automotive, electronics manufacturing, office furniture manufacturing,
commercial airlines, consumer retail, coal extraction, transportation,
and warehousing and distribution. Professor Anderson coauthored the
award-winning book Implementing Management Innovations and the
textbook Fundamentals of Cost Accounting (now in its 5th
edition). Her research has been published in leading research journals,
including The Accounting Review, Management Science, and Contemporary
Accounting Research, and has been funded by the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and
the National Science Foundation, among others.
Jacques
Crémer, research faculty at the Toulouse School of
Economics, is an expert in industrial organization with a focus on
competition, contracting, auction and planning theory, and the economics
of organization. His recent research examines these issues with
applications to the economics of two-sided platforms, industries with
network effects, and the Internet. Professor Crémer has testified before
the European Commission in relation to the AOL-Time Warner (News - Alert) merger, and
consulted to clients including Microsoft, Google, Sucre Saint Louis,
Intel, GTE, and Time Warner. He has published on such topics as the
consequences of mergers on competition and policy, the costs and
benefits of vertical integration, and the value of switching costs.
Professor Crémer's work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as American
Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is
a Fellow of the European Economic Association and the Econometric
Society. From 2011 to 2014, Professor Crémer was the Scientific Director
at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and was previously Director
of Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI), a TSE research institute
focused on partnerships with government and industry.
Randal
S. Milch, a Distinguished Fellow at the New York
University School of Law's Center on Law and Security, has extensive
expertise in corporate governance, cybersecurity, and data privacy
issues. Over his 21 years at Verizon (News - Alert) Communications Inc. (where he was
EVP and General Counsel to the Chair and CEO), Mr. Milch was deeply
involved in the deregulation and transformation of the
telecommunications industry. He oversaw the public policy, legal,
regulatory, government affairs, and security groups at Verizon,
testified before committees of Congress, and organized and led
significant public policy campaigns relating to state and federal
legislation and transactional approvals. He also managed national
security matters, set cyber-policy, and served as the senior cleared
executive. Mr. Milch is currently chair of the Board of Equal Justice
Works and serves as a trustee of New York University School of Law. He
is a former partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Donovan, Leisure,
Newton & Irvine.
Michael
D. Mitzenmacher, the Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer
Science at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, researches the design and analysis of algorithms,
networks and data transmission, computer security, information theory,
and use of encryption. He has consulted to numerous technology companies
and research laboratories, including Adverplex (Cogolabs), Akamai, AT&T (News - Alert),
Digital Fountain, eHarmony, Fluent Mobile (Fiksu), Google, Huawei, ITA
Software, JobSync, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Research Laboratories, and
Yahoo. In addition, he has served as an expert witness on software and
intellectual property issues in several cases, including testimony in
multiple trials. Professor Mitzenmacher has authored or coauthored over
200 conference and journal publications on various topics, including
algorithms for the Internet; efficient hash-based data structures;
erasure; and error-correcting codes, power laws, and compression. His
work on low-density parity-check codes shared the 2002 IEEE (News - Alert) Information
Theory Society Best Paper Award and won the 2009 ACM SIGCOMM Test of
Time Award. Prior to joining Harvard, he worked as a research scientist
at Digital Systems Research Center on information retrieval on the Web,
erasure codes, error-correcting codes, on-line algorithms, and load
balancing.
Nathan
Novemsky, a professor of marketing in the Yale School of
Management and a professor of psychology at Yale University, is an
expert in the psychology of judgment and decision-making, an area that
overlaps heavily with behavioral economics and consumer behavior. His
area of specialization is examining how consumers are affected by
information in their environments, including how particular types of
information impact their choices and judgments. He is a member of the
Yale Center for Customer Insights, and has consulted on numerous legal
cases (e.g., deceptive advertising, defamation) related to how
individuals interpret information they see in the media and other
contexts. Professor Novemsky has published widely on the topics of
judgment and decision-making, and regularly teaches these concepts to
executives around the world.
Paul
Oyer, the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Economics at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business, is an expert in the economics of
organizations and human resource practices. In the field of personnel
economics, he has undertaken several studies on how organizations pay
and provide incentives for their workers. He has also examined how
salespeople and executives react to incentive systems, and why some
firms use broad-based stock option programs. In addition, he has
conducted research on how firms have adjusted their human resource
practices in response to legal barriers for dismissing workers. His
current research focuses on how companies identify and recruit workers
in highly-skilled and competitive labor markets. His research has been
published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including The Quarterly
Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and The
Journal of Finance. Professor Oyer is a research associate with the
National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Labor Economics. Prior to joining Stanford, he was on the
faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He also previously worked for Booz, Allen & Hamilton; 3Com (News - Alert) Corporation;
and ASK Computer Systems.
John
E. Ware, the Professor and Chief of Outcomes Measurement
Science in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School, is an internationally
recognized leader in measuring Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO). His
substantial contributions to the outcomes research field have focused on
developing, standardizing, and applying health metrics to assess patient
reported outcomes. His work has led to the development of a set of
standardized, generic PRO measures, including the SF-36® Health Survey,
as well as disease-specific measures such as the Headache Impact Test
(HIT-6™) survey. Professor Ware frequently provides guidance on evidence
support for PRO laeling, and he has been the invited expert for
testimony on PRO topics at hearings held by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. His current research interests also include applying
modern psychometric methods to construct more actionable measures,
including the first disease-specific quality-of-life (QOL) impact scale
standardized across conditions and normed in representative
chronically-ill populations. Professor Ware is a member of the National
Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).
NEW MANAGING PRINCIPAL
The firm promoted one consultant to managing principal.
Richard
A. Mortimer specializes in health economics, industrial
organization, microeconomic theory, and econometrics. He has provided
economic analyses in numerous antitrust matters involving questions of
market power, pricing, and market exclusion and foreclosure in a variety
of industries, with a focus on healthcare. He has also provided analyses
and expert testimony on behalf of clients in the healthcare industry on
litigation and government investigations involving allegations of
improper promotion and kickback payments. Dr. Mortimer's experience
includes leading analyses of large data sets to assess questions of
market definition, class certification, liability, and damages. In
addition to work in litigation, Dr. Mortimer has undertaken research in
the area of health care policy, and he has authored several public
policy studies related to pharmaceutical and general health care
legislation. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed
journals, including Health Affairs, Nature Reviews Drug
Discovery, The Journal of Industrial Economics, and Journal
of Medical Economics.
NEW VICE PRESIDENTS
Analysis Group promoted 15 consultants to vice president.
In Boston, Ryan
Booth specializes in applying microeconomic theory,
antitrust economics, and econometric methods to a range of issues that
include assessing the competitive effects of firm conduct, the
implications of mergers and acquisitions on consumer welfare, and the
effects of government policy on consumer and firm behavior. Emily
Cotton has extensive experience conducting complex
quantitative and qualitative analyses of data in both mergers and
litigation matters, including antitrust, bankruptcy, class
certification, intellectual property, securities, survey design, tax,
and transfer-pricing matters. Chris
Feige specializes in the areas of finance, securities,
and financial systems. He has developed complex valuation models,
including discounted cash flow models, and has analyzed asset-backed
securities and credit ratings in support of expert testimony in a number
of bankruptcy and damages matters. Lauren
Hunt specializes in providing analyses in finance cases
involving complex securities, including mortgage-backed securities
(MBS). She has supported experts in numerous litigations involving class
action claims, allegations of violations of Sections 10b-5 and 11, and
damages claims relating to the underwriting of mortgage loans. Kenneth
Weinstein specializes in the application of quantitative
methods to real-world problems involving decision-making, strategy, risk
management, and litigation. He has managed the analysis of large
transaction-level and claims databases, helped clients mitigate the
risks associated with distributing controlled substances, and developed
flexible damages models for negotiating high-stakes settlements. Hongbo
Yang, a specialist in health economics and outcomes
research, has directed and conducted numerous studies in a variety of
therapeutic areas, including autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases,
diabetes, blood disorders, oncology, women's health, and central nervous
system diseases. She has led the submission of economic models to
multiple health technology assessment agencies (HTAs), including NICE,
CADTH, INESSS, and OHTAC.
In Denver, Carletta
Wong has a decade of experience applying economic
consulting expertise to a variety of litigation matters involving
securities, accounting, antitrust, corporate governance, off-label
pharmaceutical marketing, and intellectual property and trade secrets.
In Los Angeles, Keith
Betts specializes in the application of advanced
biostatistics techniques in the field of health economics and outcomes
research. He has broad experience developing research strategies in a
range of disease areas, including immunology, hematology, oncology,
psychiatry, and virology.
In Menlo Park, Anjali
D. Oza specializes in the application of economic,
statistical, and market research methods to litigation and strategy
matters. She is an expert in designing and evaluating qualitative and
quantitative surveys, including conjoint analysis and experiments.
In Montréal, François Laliberté applies his distinctive
competencies in biostatistics and economics to the field of health
outcomes research. He has investigated different facets of health
research including safety, cost of illness, resource utilization,
adherence to therapies, cost-effectiveness, and treatment outcomes. Markus
von Wartburg specializes in the application of
econometric methods and microeconomic theory to complex problems in
antitrust and competition, commercial litigation, media and
telecommunications, finance, and intellectual property.
In New York City, Duncan
Fung specializes in commercial litigation matters
involving securities, finance, valuation, corporate governance, and
statistics. He has supported clients on consulting engagements involving
structured finance products, hedge funds, market microstructure,
employee stock options, equity financing trades, and liquidity in money
markets. Stephanie
Lee's litigation and advisory experience includes
analyses of municipal bonds and interest rate swaps, auction-rate
securities, student loan asset-backed securities, residential
mortgage-backed securities, hedge funds, and mutual funds. She has
provided testimony to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
arbitration panels.
In Washington, D.C., F.
Michael Nolan has extensive experience applying
microeconomic, financial, and accounting principles to complex business
litigation matters involving automobiles, agricultural products,
high-technology products, telecommunications, consumer electronics,
medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals. Federico
Temerlin specializes in the application of economics, finance,
and statistical theory to the analysis of complex legal and business
disputes. He has evaluated issues related to misrepresentation of
information, damages modeling, business and asset valuation, complex
financial structures, tax shelters, and corporate restructurings.
NEW MANAGERS
The firm promoted 25 consultants to manager or senior economist.
In Beijing: Simeng
Han. In Boston: Anya
Blank, Konstantin
A. Danilov, Katie
Franklin, Olga
Korolev, Elizabeth
Milsark, Jeremy
Smith, Yan
Song, Todor
Stoyanov, David
Toniatti, and Kristof
Zetenyi. In Chicago: Mark
Berberian and David
Smith. In Dallas: Jeffrey
Hulbert. In Denver: Stacey
Chan. In Los Angeles: Maral
DerSarkissian, Anne
LaRue, Jinlin
Song, Nathan
Trujillo, and Joel
Wiles. In Menlo Park: Daniel
Deisenroth and Ruoding
Tan. In Montréal: Dominic
Pilon. In San Francisco: Tracy
Danner. In Washington, D.C.: Anna
Gumen.
About Analysis Group:
Analysis Group is one of the largest private economics consulting firms,
with more than 700 professionals across 11 offices in the United States,
Canada, and China. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics,
finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune
500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts,
together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry,
and government, offer our clients exceptional depth of expertise.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170522005931/en/
[ Back To Mobile World Congress's Homepage ]
|