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Dr. Cottrell has been a Senior Advisor to Kormendi \ Gardner Partners since 2000 and provides extensive support on various litigation and expert testimony assignments using highly sophisticated, complex models to complement KGP’s financial expertise and experience. He has developed real options valuation models for highly volatile early-stage assets and economic models to account for uncertainty in the evolution of asset values by Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) and monte-carlo option pricing. He performed valuation modeling for several “Winstar” cases as wall as supported KGP’s work on the National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) et al. v. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP case. Dr. Cottrell has also played a critical role on KGP’s Independent Distribution Consultant assignment for the SEC modeling various aspects of late-trading penalties.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary where he teaches advanced corporate finance, derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, micro- and macro- economics, and statistics to MBA candidates. Prior to that, he was responsible for teaching the undergraduate "capstone" business policy course in corporate strategy, the MBA Industry Analysis course, and a Ph.D. seminar in Corporate Strategy. Dr. Cottrell has authored multiple journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, and presentations and has received several research grants which have allowed him to pursue research in the software industry strategy field. He has served on committees of numerous students seeking Master’s and PhD degrees as well as serving on a variety of charitable boards.
Dr. Cottrell has also worked as a Senior Consultant for University Research Associates, earned his CPA designation while employed by Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche) and performed Independent software development for Microsoft Corp.
Dr. Cottrell earned his B.A. in Business Administration – Accounting from the University of Washington and his PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley - Haas School of Business.
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