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Greg is a Managing Director of Empire Valuation Consultants, LLC., an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), designated in business valuation, of the American Society of Appraisers, and a Certified Business Appraiser (CBA). He holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Corporate Accounting from the University of Rochester’s William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration and a B.B.A. in Finance from St. Bonaventure University. He is a past Vice President of the Western New York Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers and is a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers. Greg has over ten years of banking and valuation experience. Since joining Empire, Greg has been involved in a wide variety of valuation engagements involving diverse business interests, including various classes of corporate equity, debt, and derivative securities; limited partnership and limited liability company interests; intangible assets; and intellectual property. These valuations have been for merger & acquisition consulting, fairness opinions, gift and estate tax reporting, ESOP and ERISA plan administration, financial reporting, and litigation support. Greg has performed multiple valuation engagements in a variety of different industries, including copper and brass mills, rolling operations, and service centers; golf equipment manufacturing and licensing, golf course design and operation, and golf resort operation; apparel manufacturing, licensing, and distribution; and banking, investment management, and other financial services, to name a few. Prior to joining Empire, Greg was an officer of a major New England commercial bank, where he managed a group responsible for evaluating both closely held and publicly traded companies for the extension of commercial credit and the provision of international trade banking services. He also managed portions of that institution's loan officer development program and taught seminars on financial and credit analysis for commercial lending purposes. | 