M. Todd Henderson
Professor of Law and Aaron Director Teaching Scholar
Professor of Law and Aaron Director Teaching Scholar
University of Chicago Law School
Todd Henderson is an expert in securities regulation, corporate governance, employee compensation and incentives, intellectual property, and bankruptcy law.
Todd has provided expert analysis in approximately 10 federal and state trials regarding issues of corporate law and governance. In addition, prior to joining the academy, Professor Henderson worked for four years at McKinsey & Company, where he advised the boards of for-profit and not-for-profit companies on matters of corporate governance and strategy. In addition to publishing and lecturing widely on corporate law and governance, Todd is working on a book on the future of corporate governance.
Todd’s expertise in corporate governance has been recognized internationally. He is currently the Fresco Chair of Corporate Law at the University of Genoa, Italy, where he has lectured for the past three years on matters of corporate governance. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he is a lecturer in corporate governance. He also was the Roger J. Traynor Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Hastings in 2011, where he lectured regarding boards and corporate governance.
Associate Professor of Accounting
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Chris Armstrong is an expert in equity compensation, employee incentives, equity valuation, IPO valuation, and financial reporting
Chris currently teaches Introductory Financial Accounting in the Wharton School’s MBA program. Chris’ research focuses on a wide range of matters pertaining to governance and executive incentive-compensation, with an emphasis on the interaction between corporate governance and the flow of information in organizations. His research has been published in numerous top-tier finance and accounting journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Accounting Review. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Accounting Review.
Chris received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business; a Master of Professional Accountancy (MPA) from the University of Texas at Austin; and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining the academy, Chris worked in the Federal Income Tax department of KPMG. Chris is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Ian Gow is an expert in financial reporting, the use of accounting information in markets and contracts, valuation, regulation of capital markets, and corporate governance.
Ian has extensive experience in finance and consulting. Prior to entering academia, he worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was part of the Global Valuation and Accounting Team, which advised clients and analysts on issues pertaining to valuation and financial reporting. He also worked at Stern Stewart, where he advised corporate management on issues related to performance measurement, executive compensation and organization design, and in General Motors’ treasurer’s office in New York.
His primary research interests relate to the use of accounting information in markets and contracts, valuation, regulation of capital markets, and corporate governance. Ian’s work has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Ian was an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in business from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business; an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School; and a bachelor of commerce and bachelor of laws, both from the University of New South Wales.
Associate Professor of Accounting
EKS&H Faculty Fellow
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado at Boulder
Alan Jagolinzer is an expert in insiders' equity and derivative transactions, SEC Rule 10b5-1, corporate governance, employee compensation and incentives, and financial reporting including International Financial Reporting Standards.
Alan has personally briefed the Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Economist, SEC enforcement officials, and SEC attorneys about insiders’ strategic trade through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. He has also provided expert analysis in several class action cases and has testified in US Federal District Court regarding insiders’ strategic trading within SEC Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. He has published research in top academic journals relating to corporate governance and executive compensation and incentives and he teaches a PhD seminar in governance. Alan has also served on an advisory board for a startup foreign airline, currently serves on a school board as the audit committee chair, and has served on one other non-profit board and on the audit committee for another non-profit board. Alan was the 2010 recipient of the Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. He was also the 2009 recipient of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Sloan Masters Program Teaching Excellence Award. His research has been prominently featured in Business Week, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal and he has been a panelist regarding governance matters at the Stanford Law School Directors College.
Examples of prior work by Veremetrics consultants:
Valuation of failed start up telecommunications company. Testimony as plaintiff’s expert on valuation in state court in California in suit brought by shareholders against directors who sold the firm’s assets.
Expert report on corporate governance settlement terms for securities class action in federal district court in New Jersey.
Testimony as plaintiff’s expert on corporate governance, corporate structure, and corporate law in piercing the corporate veil case in state law action in Illinois.
Expert report and testimony as plaintiff’s expert on corporate governance for bankruptcy trustee in federal court in Chicago in case involving failed venture capital investment.
Expert report on corporate governance, mergers and acquistions, and telecommunications industry best practices for defendants in Illinois state court in case involving merger.
Expert report and testimony as plaintiff’s expert on executive compensation, insider trading, and Rule 10b5-1 trading plans in federal securities class action in California.
Expert report on law and economics of litigation for defendants in case involving payday lenders in state court in Florida.
Plaintiffs’ expert report and testimony in US Federal District Court regarding corporate executives’ alleged improper trading within Rule 10b5-1 plans.
Presentations to Securities and Exchange Commission economists and enforcement staff, as well as investors and corporate attorneys in New York, Boston, Palo Alto, Denver, and San Francisco regarding SEC Rule 10b5-1 trading plan best practices.