Mikhail Munenzon

Mikhail is an expert in finance with a broad range of academic and professional experience gained over more than 20 years in the industry and global markets.  His focus is on complex valuations and valuations of complex instruments for property tax, M&A, litigation, partnership disputes, portfolio investment valuation and fair value measurements (e.g., ASC 820) and other purposes, including public and private securities, complex securities, Monte Carlo simulations.  His clients included multiple members of the Fortune 500 list who faced complex compliance and litigation risks, including multi-million dollar valuation disputes with city and state tax authorities.  He also serves as Professor of Finance at Illinois Wesleyan University (one of the top liberal arts universities in the Midwest), where he brings his practitioner perspective to his teaching and mentoring of students on financial statement analysis, investments, portfolio management, valuation and other topics.  He received his undergraduate degree in engineering with the highest honors (GPA: 4.0) from Columbia University and his graduate degree in international finance and economics with the highest honors (GPA: 4.0) from Columbia University.  He holds Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation from the CFA Institute, Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA®) designation from the American Society of Appraisers, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA®) designation from the CAIA Association and Professional Risk Manager (PRM) designation from the PRM International Association. Before InteleK, he worked at startups, boutique firms and established financial institutions such as JP Morgan and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He is recognized as an effective and enthusiastic teacher of financial concepts, having served as Professor of Finance at Providence College and Adjunct Professor at such institutions as Queens College of the City University of New York and Sacred Heart University.  He has also successfully conducted and published his research, ranking him in the top 2% of authors of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), the largest research publishing platform for the social sciences.  His research can be found at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1460480