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Russell J. Gunyan earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Fordham University, where he graduated with Honors and was an officer in Fordham's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a national business school honors fraternity. He then entered the profession of Public Accounting with the firm of Ernst & Ernst and completed the CPA exam in 1979.
Concentrating his audit practice in the consumer and commercial financial services area, Mr. Gunyan entered the banking industry in 1980. As an officer of the Morgan Bank, he built upon his expertise in financial and SEC reporting and was the Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer for the bank's trade finance offices in California. Mr. Gunyan then served as a Vice President and Controller of the Bank of America's international banking offices in New York prior to entering law school in 1993.
Graduating with honors, Mr. Gunyan obtained his Juris Doctor degree from St. John's University School of Law in 1995, where he received academic achievements awards during his second and third years. Following his admission to the New York Bar in 1996, Mr. Gunyan performed defense work for corporate clients, including several major product liability matters.
Mr. Gunyan has been an active member of the plaintiffs' bar since 1997 when he joined the firm as an associate, where he worked on a number of high profile class action litigations against the insurance industry before concentrating his practice in the area of securities fraud. In 2003, Mr Gunyan joined the firm of Geller Rudman, PLLC. Mr. Gunyan has been active in the investigation and filing of new securities matters and was responsible for uncovering several significant corporate frauds. He has also been actively involved in numerous lead plaintiff issues and developed an expertise in lead plaintiff jurisprudence.
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