James R. Hitchner is Managing Director of Financial Valuation Advisors www.finvaluation.com and is President of The Financial Consulting Group www.gofcg.org. He is CEO of Valuation Products and Services www.valuationproducts.com which created and distributes the Business Valuation Standards Compliance Toolkit and presents monthly webinars. He is Editor in Chief of Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert, a bimonthly journal. Mr. Hitchner is editor/coauthor of the books Financial Valuation: Applications and Models (FVAM); Financial Valuation Workbook (FVW), and Valuation for Financial Reporting, Fair Value Measurements and Reporting: Intangible Assets, Goodwill, and Impairment (VFR), all published by Wiley. He is coauthor of PPC’s Guide To Business Valuations, 19th edition, published by Thomson Reuters.

James was a shareholder with Phillips Hitchner Group, partner-in-charge of valuation services for the Southern Region of Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), and senior appraiser with American Appraisal Associates. He is an inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame and a two time recipient of the AICPA’s Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year award. He was a member of the AICPA Business Valuation Standards Writing Task Force and served for six years up to the June 2007 official release of the standards.