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Jeff has over 18 years of experience in economic and statistical consulting survey design and sampling methodologies and database analytics. He is an authority on economic and labor markets statistical methods and economic damages.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Huron Jeff was the Principal-in-Charge of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Boston. He previously served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and on the faculty of the University of Illinois where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses covering labor economics demand analysis and statistics.
Jeff has conducted studies for corporations government agencies and law firms on a variety of economic and statistical issues; focusing on the evaluation of economic damages in large business disputes and forecasting economic losses from hazardous material exposure. He has overseen projects measuring the impact of specific events on company sales profits and stock price. He also has special expertise in conducting statistical analyses in class actions involving questions of discrimination in employment and in insurance cases involving questions of pricing and coverage. Jeff has investigated the definition of markets and assessed the extent of competition in a range of industries. He has provided expert testimony in State and Federal Courts and presented analytical findings before the Securities and Exchange Commission the Texas Commissioner of Insurance and the New York and Massachusetts State Offices of Attorney General.
Representative examples of Jeff's engagement experience include:
Intellectual Property/Economic Damages
For a manufacturer involved in a patent infringement and unfair competition dispute he conducted an econometric study of lost sales due to an alleged infringement. His critique of opposing expert's calculation of economic damages contributed to a jury decision of zero damages despite a finding of infringement.
Antitrust/Competitive Analyses
Working for defense counsel in an antitrust lawsuit involving the automobile industry he prepared an expert report criticizing analyses and testimony of plaintiffs' economic and statistical expert. He identified a number of serious conceptual and methodological flaws in this analysis that rendered the opposing expert's conclusions unreliable.
Environmental
For a pharmaceutical company he constructed an economic model to forecast expected costs arising from employees' exposure to hazardous materials including asbestos. The model blended economic demographic and medical cost factors to project the pattern of exposure and disease and to estimate the dollar of future claims expected to be brought against the company.
Employment - Wage & Hour
For an insurance company alleged to have misclassified adjusters as exempt from overtime pay he supplemented company claims data with government survey data to estimate actual hours worked and show that employees may have overstated the amount of time they recalled working.
Securities
On behalf of outside counsel of a CEO facing a derivative class action he oversaw a team of economists to estimate the expected impact of an earnings announcement on company stock price. He also analyzed historical revenue patterns to help assess the reasonableness of executive statements that the company was on target to meet its earnings guidance.
Education & Certifications
Ph.D. Economics University of Pennsylvania
Professional Associations
American Economic Association
American Statistical Association
Society of Labor Economists
Publications
His research has been published in some of the top peer-reviewed journals in the economics profession including The American Economic Review. | 