Robert is a Principal with Houlihan Valuation Advisors, a national firm of valuation and capital consultants. Rob's professional background includes extensive work in business appraisal, marital and partnership dissolutions, estate planning, market studies, statistical analysis, and forensic accounting. He has testified as an expert in Federal and Indiana courts and has directed numerous studies of business value, economic damages and lost profits, and intellectual property matters for clients in a wide variety of companies. He authored the course “Valuing Intangibles” for the Institute of Business Appraisers, and contributed the chapter on Intangible Asset Appraisal Understanding Business Valuation, 3rd edition, is a co-author in the forthcoming valuing a Business, 6th edition, concerning real estate centered entities. Rob regularly teaches valuation methods and report writing techniques to appraisal, legal and accounting organizations, and is a Licensed or Certified Appraisal Instructor by the Real Estate Appraisal Boards in Indiana, Utah and Virginia.
A
frequent author and trainer, his most recent publications include articles in Business
Valuation Update, the Matrimonial Strategist (where he serves on the
Board of Editors), The Earnings Analyst, Indiana Lawyer, the Handbook
of Business Valuation, Fair$hare, The Personal Property Journal,
and as co-author of the book on Valuing Software Companies published by
Business Valuation Resources in October, 2005.
During the past twenty years Rob has addressed many international
conventions, including the Association for Systems Management, and the
Rob's
business career includes technical systems work for Burroughs Corporation in
the 1960's and the U.S. Marine Corps in the early to mid-1970's. He served on the faculty of the Weatherhead
School of Management at
Rob
holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (Occidental), a Master's degree in
Labor and Industrial Relations (
From
1998 through 2000 Rob served as President of the Indiana Chapter of the
American Society of Appraisers, and was the Society's State Director during
2000 and 2001. He served as a Governor
for the
