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Biography... Summary Ken Gartrell is an accomplished management consultant and economic expert. His work centers on applications of financial and institutional economics. The most common applications of his work result in formal reports to clients on various questions of value, price, cost and economic or accounting performance. Examples include: business asset valuations for corporate control transactions, relative business asset performance analysis for investment and capital budgeting decisions and the calculation of economic damages for commercial litigation of many types. Through time, Dr. Gartrell has served as a Certified Public Accountant, executive, entrepreneur, college professor, author, speaker and consultant. In all these roles, Ken has been motivated by a interest in: how markets, institutions and companies really work; what makes them perform as they do; what makes them different from each other and what makes them change over time. Professional Accounting Career As Ken says, "I grew up in Ohio, a state of rich agricultural and manufacturing production. Ohio was a major crossroad of world commerce. It was wonderful: busy, strong and productive. Through my summer jobs in the fields, factories and stores of my native state, I was inspired to know what made the world of commerce and industry turn." After completing the undergraduate degree and a first graduate degree in professional accounting, Dr. Gartrell spent an enriching formative period as a CPA in the firm of Ernst & Ernst. In a few short years, Ken was a manager and a day-to-day supervisor of audit and consulting engagements for valued regional and multinational clients. Assisted by outstanding professional development programs at Ernst & Ernst, he mastered technical and analytical aspects of financial accounting, tax accounting, cost accounting and auditing. He gained invaluable institutional knowledge of the role of accounting information for both investment, regulatory and managerial purposes. He served clients, large and small, across a wide spectrum of extraction, manufacturing, processing, distribution and service industries. Management Consulting The rise of computer and information systems, coupled with dramatic changes in global industry in the 1980s, attracted Dr. Gartrell back to graduate school in search of advanced tools for business and economic analysis. While he studied the development of business organizations and the role of business executives in those turbulent years of the corporate raiders, Dr. Gartrell taught in business schools in Northeast Ohio. He found steady and increasing opportunities to apply his analytical skills to real business problems. He learned to develop financial models and he enjoyed the benefit of working on many important assignments to aid executives in critical decisions of corporate finance, business strategy and operations planning. As a Ph.D. student, Ken demonstrated academic promise by capturing the Glueck Prize for the Best Paper in Business Policy and Strategy at the 1986 International Meetings of the Academy of Management for his paper 'Congressional Politics and Corporate Mergers.' He soon completed his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled 'Corporate Strategies for Competitive Advantage.' These two works jointly provided peer reviewed publications in leading professional academic journals. The skills and habits of the professional researcher, coupled with his prior experience in professional accounting, led Dr. Gartrell to a deep understanding of capital market institutions, the valuation of businesses and the process of corporate change. As a post-doctoral student, Dr. Gartrell completed his study of financial economics and the economics of accounting information at the University of Rochester, William E. Simon School of Business. While at the Simon School, Dr. Gartrell took all of the graduate courses, at both the Ph.D. and MBA levels, in accounting and finance. While he studied for, and received, an MBA in recognition of this work, Dr. Gartrell taught undergraduate and graduate courses in accounting, finance and business policy at both the Simon School and at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Economic & Management Consulting In the early 1990s, after twelve years of advanced study, teaching and consulting, Dr. Gartrell was approached to join Putman, Hayes and Bartlett in Cambridge, MA as a Principal. This marked an entrance into the full-time realm of economic and management consulting. In this latest phase, Dr. Gartrell has had the honor to work on many of the most interesting problems and cases of our time. He is honored to work along side many of the very brightest and knowledgeable people in the world. When Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett sold its interest to another consulting firm, Dr. Gartrell and his team moved their practice to The Brattle Group in Cambridge, MA, where he became a Director. Marking continued career advancement, Dr. Gartrell and his growing team then moved to LECG, LLC. Now, Dr. Gartrell's new firm BECG is poised for a dramatic growth curve. The BECG group has thrived in their unique consulting environment. As CEO of BECG, the opportunities for Dr. Gartrell consist of an increasingly influential practice of national and international scope. |
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