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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Dr. Stephen Castell, Chartered Information Systems Practitioner and Member of the Expert Witness Institute, is Chairman of CASTELL Consulting. He is an internationally acknowledged Independent Computer Expert who has been involved in a wide range of computer litigation over many years. CASTELL Consulting, currently in its twenty-fifth year, provides independent professional consultancy and expert services in Computer Systems, Software, Project Management, Strategy, and Contract Disputes, to a wide variety of international clients and companies.

As an Expert Witness in computer litigation, Dr. Castell has acted in over 100 major cases including the largest and longest computer software actions to have come to trial in the English High Court. He is the author of the best-selling Computer Bluff (1983), and of The APPEAL Report (1990) on the admissibility of computer evidence in court and the 'legal reliability' of information systems and technologies (with the CCTA).

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World leader in E-Commerce Management (E-Business) thought leadership, speaking, consulting and training.

Mitchell Levy, is President and CEO of ECnow.com (http://ecnow.com), an e-commerce management consulting company helping start-up, medium and large enterprises transition its employees, partners and customers to the Internet age through strategy, marketing, and off-the-shelf and customized on-line and on-ground training.

He is the author of E-Volve-or-Die.com (http://e-volve-or-die.com), Executive Producer of ECMgt.com (http://ecmgt.com), an on-line E-Commerce Management (ECM) e-zine, Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall and the Founder and Program Consultant of the premier San Jose State E-Commerce Management Certificate Program (http://ecmtraining.com/sjsu), and the Chairman of the Pay-per-Performance PR Agency Media Attention Now TM (http://ecnow.com/mediaattention) and the on-line learning content production company Transition Learning (http://transitionlearning.com). Mitchell was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 of which he managed the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. Mitchell is a popular speaker, lecturing on ECM issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.



He is available for strategic business consulting and speaking engagements on the following topics:

• E-Commerce Management/E-Business
• Management trends in the business world
• Short-term predictions for the future (http://ecnow.com/top10trends2002.htm)
• Long-term predictions for the future (2025)
• Why companies aren't making the transition to the Internet age
• Strategic ECM Planning - Evolutionary tactics (http://e-volve-or-die.com/evolutionary_tactics.html)
• Customer Service and Touch Points
• New Business Models - Change Management
• Internet Marketing (http://ecnow.com/Internet_Marketing.htm)
• Deployment, evolution & management of e-commerce within companies
  
  

Is your organization moving in the right direction?

Do you have a realistic growth strategy for the next 3-4 years?

Are management and staff all rowing in the same direction?

Are marketing and sales working with each other, or against?

Is technology an asset or a liability at your firm?

Ground Floor Partners provides strategic advisory consulting services to growing small and middle market businesses and non-profit organizations worldwide. Clients range from promising start-ups with one or two partners to established companies with hundreds of employees.

At Ground Floor Partners, we focus on business fundamentals: developing and nurturing your core strengths, building a deep understanding of your customer needs, understanding and combating competitive threats, designing sound business processes, and fine-tuning your operations to minimize waste and maximize efficiency. We always take a disciplined, holistic view, so we often see problems and opportunities others might miss. Our ultimate goal is to help your organization grow bigger, faster, and better. And we always work in a collaborative fashion, with plenty of opportunities for dialog and feedback.

Services Provided

• Market/Competitor Research and Analysis
• Marketing Planning
• Strategy Consulting / Strategic Planning
• Business Plan Consulting
• Feasibility Studies
• Operations Consulting
• Due Diligence for business buyers and investors

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Kessler International was founded in 1988 by Michael G. Kessler, an internationally respected Investigative Consultant who has assisted in thousands of successful investigations for corporations and government agencies worldwide. Kessler International is a privately owned, licensed and certified firm with offices throughout the world and a network of established affiliates on every continent.

For over 20 years, Kessler International has been the leader in International and Domestic Corporate Investigations, Forensic Accounting, Computer Forensics and Intellectual Property Protection. Kessler International offers a full range of Forensic Accounting and Investigative Consulting services to protect companies against the dangers of Fraud, Counterfeiting, Product Diversion, Trademark and Copyright Infringement, Money Laundering and the recent explosion in Computer Crime.

Portfolio of Services Includes:

Forensic Accounting, including Fraud Detection, Discovery Assistance, Royalty Audits, Damage Computation, Claims Analysis, Determination of Compliance.

Risk Management, including Claims Auditing, Compliance Auditing, Due Diligence, Intellectual Property Protection, Fraud Investigations.

Special Investigation, including Business Intelligence, Asset Searches, Internal Inquiries, Private Inspector General, Pre-Employment Screening, Undercover Operations, Surveillance.

Brand Monitoring, including Monitoring Operations, Internet Monitoring, Media Monitoring, Trademark Investigations, Royalty Compliance Auditing, Anti-Counterfeiting Programs, Anti-Diversion Programs.

Computer Forensics, including Data Recovery, On-Site Acquisition, Electronic Risk Control, Document Discovery, Password Recovery, Litigation Support, Expert Testimony, Cell Phone Forensics, Tracing Hostile Content, Cyber Evidence.

Expert Witness Testimony and Comprehensive Litigation Support.

David Shaw is an independent Technical and ICT Expert and Consultant involved in a wide range of high profile System, Integrations, remedial work on Failed Systems and Programs, Litigation, Expert Witness, Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial and Ultra-High Speed Trading Systems, Cyberwarfare and Defence work.

Services Offered:

Governance

Strategy

Programme Definition

Capability

Enterprise Architecture

Process Engineering

Portfolio Management

Programme Management Office Implementation

Individual Assignments

Silicon Valley based consulting organization specializing in litigation support services for intellectual property litigation matters both in state, federal and international proceedings.

Our group consists of senior scientists, engineers, and managers as well as academic experts in the in the fields of: Electronics, Semiconductors, Computer Hardware and Software, Telecommunications, Office Automation, Communications, Medical Electronics, Biotechnology, Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Industry Custom and Practice, Marketing.

Expert witnesses, technical consulting, tutorials, discovery assistance, trial aids, market studies, patent portfolio strategy, damage determinations, investment banking and venture capital due diligence, witness location, prior art search and evaluation for both domestic and international al matters.

Expertise in Intellectual property. Electronics, Semiconductors, Computer Hardware, Software, Telecommunications, Office Automation, Communications, Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Industry Custom and Practice.