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 Institute of Business Appraisers. Regionally he has led workshops on corporate
finance and building business value for the Small Business Administration, the
Indiana Personnel Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, the Valuation
Engineers of the Internal Revenue Service, and the Better Business Bureau. Rob has taught financial statement analysis
and valuation-related courses regularly for the Indiana CPA Society, and is an
international instructor for the Institute of Business Appraisers and the
American Society of Appraisers for accredited valuation classes. Since 1997 he has provided regular seminars
on business valuation and estate issues for ICLEF, the Indiana Continuing Legal
Education Forum, at times in conjunction with attorneys from the Internal
Revenue Service.
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 Case
Western Reserve University
for three years teaching courses in information system design, economics, and
organizational behavior. Previously, Rob
directed management advisory services practices for Price Waterhouse in Central
Illinois, McGladrey & Pullen in the Indiana-Tennessee region, and Ford,
Brinkerhoff & Koehler in Indianapolis.
In 1992 he retired as a Lt. Colonel, USMCR, with specialties in data
systems, infantry, and intelligence, and held a “Top Secret” security
clearance. He has been an arbitrator for
the Better Business Bureau “Auto Line” program for over 25 years, twice being
recognized as “Arbitrator of Year.”
Rob
holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (Occidental), a Master's degree in
Labor and Industrial Relations (Michigan
State), and completed his
Ph.d candidate coursework in Management (ABD/Management Information Systems
Decision Systems/Case Western Reserve).
A member of the panel of commercial arbitrators for the Better Business Bureau, Rob also
holds membership in the American
Society of Appraisers, the Institute of Business
Appraisers, and the National Association for Business Economics
(where he serves on the National Economic Panel). He has received professional designations in Business
Appraising (Master Certified Business Appraiser/Institute of Business
Appraisers, and Accredited Senior Appraiser/American Society of Appraisers) and
Appraisal Review and Management (Accredited Senior Appraiser/American Society
of Appraisers) plus four technical designations in information systems
management.
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 Institute
of Business Appraisers
from 2001 through 2008. He was elected
as the International President of the American Society of Appraisers, serving
from July 2010 through June, 2011 and elected a Fellow of the Society in August, 2013. An Elder in the Presbyterian Church, Rob and
his family reside in Lawrence,
Indiana.