Gene Cole is a Director with OnPointe Financial Valuation Services, PLLC.  He has extensive experience providing expert witness testimony, litigation consulting and business valuation services used in discovery assistance, damage and economic loss claims, marital dissolution, and estate and gift taxes. Litigation related and business valuation services (including both tangible and intangible assets/intellectual property) have been provided for various purposes including business damages and loss of profits, stockholder/business owner litigation, personal injury and wrongful death, family law, estate and gift tax, buy-sell agreements, malpractice litigation, breach of contract, Financial Accounting Standards Board Statements of Financial Accounting Standards including No. 141 and No. 142, purchase and sale of businesses among others.

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY AT DEPOSITION AND TRIAL
(Excludes testimony prior to January 1, 2004):        

John Costabile, et al v. Southwestern Parking Co., Inc., et al, Deposition, Phoenix, AZ, October 2003 and Trial February 2004.

AZ Management & Consulting, Inc. v. Disabled American Veterans, et al, CV2003093027, Deposition, Phoenix, AZ, December 2004.

Orr v. Orr, Deposition, Phoenix, AZ, November 2004 and trial, Flagstaff, AZ, March 2005.

Meritage Homes Corporation, et al v. Ricky Lee Hancock, et al, Deposition, Phoenix, AZ September 2006.

UC Restaurant, LLC v. Maricopa County, United States District Court, District of Arizona (No. CV05-1602-PHX-MHM), Deposition, Tempe, AZ, January 2007.

Eugene A. Fisher, Trustee, Seymor P. Nagan Irrevocable Trust, et al v. The United States, United States Court of Federal Claims (No. 04-17260T), Deposition, March 2007 and Trial, June 2007, Phoenix Arizona.

Meritage Homes, Corporation, et al v. Titus, Brueckner & Berry, P.C., et al, Superior Court, State of Arizona, Maricopa County (No. CV2006-004920), Deposition, Phoenix Arizona, December 2007.

Professional Affiliations

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants (ASCPA)

Member – ASCPA Business Valuation & Litigation Services Committee

Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants (WICPA)

Former Chair and Member – WICPA Business Valuation & Litigation Services Committee

National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA)

American Society of Appraisers (ASA)

Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA)