Don Smith is a nationally known marketing & sales expert. 40 years as a (1) Fortune 1000 hands-on executive, (2) Consultant with world-class companies, (3) Faculty at Cornell Graduate School of Business, (4) Marketing & sales seminar leader. His expert witness references are outstanding. His 50+ expert engagements include jury trials, arbitration hearings, depositions and numerous expert reports.

Areas of Expertise

Business economic loss: Define lost sales, share and profits.

IP: Patents copyrights, trademarks, trade names & trade secrets.

Sales channels: Distributors, dealers & reps.

Market research: Define market size, growth, share, pricing, trends & customary practice.

Marketing & sales effectiveness:My expertise and research quantify this common contract dispute.

He is a nationally known public speaker in the development of new products, revitalizing existing products & managing distributors. He has in-depth, practical business experience and excels at explaining complex business issues.

Clients range from family owned businesses to Fortune 1000 companies including AT&T, Borax, DuPont, ITT, Lockheed-Martin, Lutron, Motorola (Moscow), Rubbermaid, Snap-on Tools, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai), Toshiba & West.

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Mr. Robert Bartlett is a Retail Industry Management Consultant with over twenty five years of experience in serving the retail industry. His current practice focuses on the needs of emerging and/or high-growth retail companies in the areas of Strategic and Business Planning, Organization, Management, Capital Formation and the Rapid Implementation of Core Business Strategies. Mr. Bartlett has provided expert testimony in a wide range of cases where real world knowledge and experience is required.

Dr. Larry Chiagouris has a rare combination of serving as a senior Fortune 500 executive and as an accomplished academician. He has provided expert testimony and written opinions on damages, marketing, advertising, intellectual property issues (including the use of survey research) for plaintiffs and defendants at federal/state court levels and arbitration venues for national/local law firms to include Davis Wright Tremaine; Nixon Peabody; Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley; Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease; and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He contributed opinions to cases involving Coors Brewing, Sprint, Avis and other important companies.

Selected by Agency Magazine as one of 10 best and brightest researchers. He brings extensive experience as a Senior Marketing, Branding and Research Executive responsible for directing major assignments for companies such as AT&T, Campbell Soup, Kraft, Miller Brewing, Peugeot, Pfizer, Prudential and Visa.

He has a Ph.D. in Marketing, is Past Chairman, Advertising Research Foundation and Former Director of the American Marketing Association.

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Haimar Consultants is an International Business and Strategic Management Consultancy helping clients to anticipate, interpret and act upon important developments in the world and to adapt or develop new strategies to manage foreign operations more effectively.

Haimar's senior consulting teams have many years of experience in the business and consulting worlds and have lived and worked across teh globe. They offer a fresh perspective and real and sustained changed using Strategic Facilitation, Horizon Scanning, Scenarios and Leadership Development.

Services Offered:

International Business Strategies

Marketing Strategies

International Franchising Opportunities

Business Collaborations

Innovation Management

Strategic Planning

Advertisement & Media Campaign

Supply Chain Management

Top & Middle Management Training Courses

Dr. Thomas Maronick has provided both plaintiff and defense litigators with marketing and consumer expertise for over ten years. Prior to that he was the in-house marketing expert at the FTC. Since leaving the FTC in 1997, Dr. Maronick has been qualified as an expert in numerous federal and state courts, providing expert reports, affidavits, and testimony on marketing, advertising, and consumer behavior matters. Dr. Maronick has designed and implemented over 300 consumer surveys for litigation and/or policy related strategies, using virtually every survey research methodology, including mall-intercept studies, telephone and mail surveys, and studies using the internet and consumer mail panels.

Dr. Maronick has testified (deposition/trial) over 20 times in the past five years and is the author of research of the use of surveys in litigation.

Areas of Expertise:

False and Deceptive Advertising

Deceptive Marketing Practices

Consumer/Advertising Survey Research

Packaging

Direct Marketing Promotions/ Internet Domain Name Research

SDR-Consulting provides a variety of legal services to help firms address marketing law. William Neal, Senior Partner and Founder of SDR Consulting, has been qualified in the federal courts as an expert in Lanham Act cases dealing with false advertising and trademark infringement and in cases dealing with marketing and survey research.

Legal Services Provided:

Advertising Claims Research and Substantiation

Evaluation of False & Misleading Advertising

Trademark and Service Mark Infringement/Dilution Research

Survey Research That Meets Judicial Standards

Statistical Analysis and Testing, Including Statistical Data Processing

Consulting and Expert Testimony

Areas of Expertise:

Branding, Trademarks and service Marks

Marketing and Sales Strategies and Tactics

Survey Research Methods and Procedures

New Product Development and Consumer Testing

Advertising and Promotion Effectiveness

Pricing Strategy and Tactics

Product and Sales Forecasting

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Avinash Vashistha has dedicated his career to the unique requirements of the Global Outsourcing Market. His background and understanding of the practices surrounding Offshore Markets provides clients with a custom offshoring strategy, supplier / build mapping, favorable pricing, reduced risk, successful transition and sustainable performance contracts that address issues unique to offshore delivery.

Mr. Vashistha has evaluated and conducted due diligence on over 200 supplier firms, including companies in India, Russia, China, Philippines, Malaysia, C&E Europe, US, Canada, UK, Ireland and Vietnam. He has directed sourcing assessments, IT and BPO / KPO sourcing transactions and executed program governance models realizing $6 Billion in savings for clients. Avinash also developed significant expertise in the areas of R&D, Technology, Human Resources, Finance and Accounting, Analytics, Investment Research, claims processing and other domain specific voice and back office business processes. Mr. Vashistha has been a strong proponent of well-qualified, but lesser known tier-two suppliers in the competitive sourcing process.

Thought Leader: His opinions are sought and recognized by worldwide organizations and conference organizers such as IDC, NASSCOM, CITEM, C-Level, Private Equity Conference, the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, CII, SBPOA and IAOP. Leading media conglomerates such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time, The Straits Times, The Business Times, USA TODAY, CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Business Week, Bangkok Post, NDTV, Times Group, Business Standard and Cyber Media have featured Avinash extensively. He has been recognized by HRO Today as ‘HRO Superstar’ for 2006 and 2007 in the category of thought leaders and advisors on outsourcing. He has also been recognized as ‘FAO Superstar’ for 2007.