Media - Multimedia Expert Witnesses: 4

Dr. Larry Chiagouris has a rare combination 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 & defendants at major national & local firms.

Experience summary:

• Experience evenly divided between plaintiff and defendant engagements over 25 cases

• Several cases include elements of intellectual property issues

• Majority of cases involve elements of consumer behavior or survey research

• Majority of cases involve elements of advertising related strategies and tactics

• Majority of cases involve elements of Internet related tactics

• Majority of cases involve written opinions and depositions

• Written and oral testimony in several Federal District Court jurisdictions

• Engaged by both large multinational law firms and small boutique firms

• Class action cases evenly divided between plaintiffs and defendants

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.

Shannon M. Wilkinson, CEO of Reputation Communications, is a nationally recognized expert in Online Reputation Management. Her New York City-based firm advises clients on all aspects of reputation management. As a commentator for The Wall Street Journal, her analysis of how leading corporations are managing their crises have focused on Equifax, NBC, Ohio State University, Purdue Pharma, Sanofi, UBER, and others. She has been quoted in Consumer Reports, Huffington Post, USA Today and the NBC Today Show.

Founded in 2009, Reputation Communications was one of the first companies to specialize in online reputation management. It is the only online reputation management firm to specialize in the needs of influencers: individuals with newsworthy or industry-wide impact in business, politics, or social issues. Ms. Wilkinson’s thought-leadership has attracted interviews with many media outlets on issues relating to reputation management, celebrity and corporation scandals, and other crises.

Ms. Wilkinson leads a team of U.S.-based content creators, digital designers, IT and SEO specialists and social media managers to perform client work. Reputation Communications partners with Carrie Chatterson Studio to develop optimized, SEO-rich personal branding campaigns. Ms. Wilkinson has resolved reputation issues for Forbes 400 philanthropists, Fortune 500 leaders, Investment, FinTech & financial services firms, Silicon Valley tech founders and others.

Litigation Support: Shannon Wilkinson serves as an expert witness for legal cases related to Reputation Issues. She offers services to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant which include thorough investigation, deposition, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

Defamation Reputation Damage Identity Theft Malicious Attacks Privacy Vulnerability Digital Brand Repair

Internet Defamation Communications Internet Risk Management Reputation Repair

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Dr. John Strawn, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1985)  has served as testifying expert in patent and trade secret cases, conducted extensive prior art searches, and written expert reports, working for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has conducted software analysis of thousands of pages of source code.  Dr. Strawn has over 30 years experience in software development (assembly language, Fortran, C, C++, Java, HTML, XML). He is experienced in digital signal processing, especially for audio and music, including audio compression such as MP-3. As an employee and as an independent consultant he has worked on teams in large and small companies on cutting-edge technology.  Having been a Fulbright scholar in Germany, he can easily work with source material in German. He is an accomplished public speaker and has published extensively. 

Testifying Experience: 19 depositions and 3 trials to date. includes Lucent v. Microsoft (San Diego, CA, February 2007).

J. Armand Musey, CFA, JD/MBA, founder and president of Summit Ridge Group, LLC, provides expert witness testimony for the Satellite, Media, and Telecommunications Industries. Mr. Musey is a highly regarded financial analyst with expertise in Asset Valuation, Business Valuation, Financial Analysis of Economic Damages, and Financial Scenario Analysis. He also has significant experience in corporate governance and investment research practices. He offers litigation support for clients with complex financial analysis or valuation projects. His background also includes Wall Street research methods and practices on behalf of defendants in insider trading cases.

Mr. Musey's industry knowledge, financial expertise, and extensive writing experience allow him to expediently craft well-argued independent written direct testimony documents that withstand scrutiny in depositions and during courtroom cross-examination. Prior expert witness experience and years of communicating with investors of all types have honed his skills at orally communicating his industry knowledge and financial expertise. Moreover, Mr. Musey's legal background facilitates his ability to communicate with legal professionals, understand the legal relevance of case facts, and efficiently read legal documents.

Areas of Expertise Include:

• Industry and Business
  • Broadband Communications
  • Broadcasting
  • FCC Spectrum Licenses (including orbital slot valuation and wireless spectrum valuation)
  • Satellite Communications Industry and Related Media and Telecommunications Topics
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Spectrum
• Financial and Economic
  • Asset Valuation
  • Business Valuation
  • Financial Analysis of Economic Damages
  • Financial Scenario Analysis
• Other
  • Corporate Governance
  • Investment Research Practices - including accepted used of information sources and relationships with company management

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