Principals
Michael Davis
Founder and President of SLA, Mike has worked in the litigation support business since 1986. For more than 20 years, he was a principal with Economic Analysis Group, in Washington, DC, and the founder and Director of EAG’s Securities Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Davis has directed the analysis of more than 20,000 customer accounts and testified as an expert witness at more than 100 arbitration hearings. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Anselm College and an M.A. in Monetary and Fiscal Economics from the Catholic University of America.
202-794-6752 | email | vcard
Paul Moulden
Senior Vice President and Partner, Paul joined SLA after 11 years as a senior consultant and principal at Economic Analysis Group. As a financial services industry expert, he has been engaged in more than 1,000 matters and has testified in more than 150 arbitration hearings. Prior to EAG, Paul worked for 27 years in the financial services industry, as a registered representative, branch compliance manager and sales practice supervisor. Paul holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.S. in Accounting from American University. He has also been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.
703-864-5649 | email | vcard
Anthony Raimondi, CPA
Anthony has more than 30 years of experience in financial services and accounting. He managed the in-house litigation and compliance support group for Citigroup, handling the firm’s entire retail litigation calendar, as well as compliance and other non-litigation matters. He has served as an arbitrator for FINRA and NYSE and has testified as an expert witness in more than 200 arbitrations on issues of suitability, supervision, profits and losses, and other quantitative statistics. He is licensed as a CPA and holds a B.S. in Accounting from St. John’s University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He has held the following Securities Industry licenses: 7, 63, 24, 8, 4, and 27.
516-627-5055 | email | vcard
Frank Azzarita
Vice President and Partner, Frank joined SLA after nearly 20 years at Merrill Lynch. As a financial services industry expert, he has testified in more than 35 arbitration hearings. At Merrill he was a financial advisor, compliance manager, and sales practice supervisor responsible for 8 branch offices, 140 financial advisors, and thousands of customer accounts with more than $10 billion of assets under management. Prior to that, Frank served 12 years in the U.S. Merchant Marines. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Marine Transportation and is a retired Lt. Commander of the U.S. Naval Reserve.
202-794-6747 | email | vcard
Adam Kalt, CPA
Vice President and Partner, Adam has worked on arbitration matters since 2004 and has directed the analyses of nearly 10,000 brokerage accounts. As an expert witness, he has been retained over 80 times and testified in 10+ arbitration hearings. He holds a B.S. in Economics and M.S. in Finance both from the Pennsylvania State University and is licensed in Virginia as a Certified Public Accountant.
202-794-6751 | email | vcard
Richard Pica
Vice President and Partner, Rich has worked on broker-dealer arbitrations since 2005. As an expert witness, he has testified in more than a dozen arbitration hearings. He has prepared analyses for several thousand brokerage accounts and prepares analyses of tax returns, SEC filings and other financial documents. Rich holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Fordham University.
202-794-6746 | email | vcard
Consultants
Lynae Carr
Lynae joined SLA with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. As a financial services industry expert, she has testified at FINRA arbitration hearings. She began her career as a financial planner at Prudential Preferred. In 1999, she joined Morgan Stanley in compliance supervision. The last 18 years she spent as a sales supervision manager at Merrill Lynch responsible for up to 140 financial advisors, $34 billion in assets and $188 million in annual revenue. Lynae holds a B.S. in Psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University.
713-870-9943 | email
Lisa Desler
Senior Consultant, Lisa joined SLA with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. As an expert witness, she has testified at FINRA arbitration hearings. She began her career at Wells Fargo Advisors, where she served as a registered representative in a partnership managing over $130 million in assets. At BMO Harris Bank she assisted in the management of $6 billion in assets and later served as vice-president of analysis. Lisa holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Finance from George Washington University.
202-794-8437 | email | vcard
John White, CFA
John joined SLA with 30 years of experience in the financial services industry including 23 years in executive leadership/investment, operations & compliance management/M&A recruitment, due-diligence, and integration roles at registered investment advisory (RIA) firms (servicing up to 125 advisors, 365 team members across 21 offices nationally with regulatory assets under management (AUM) of $21 billion). Additionally, he served as a publishing equity research analyst for seven years constructing and presenting detailed financial models and company valuation analysis for major brokerage firms. John holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from the University of Richmond. John is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
202-794-7238 | email | vcard
Analysts
Sasha Anderson
Sasha recently joined SLA from EAG where she spent more than 13 years working on broker-dealer arbitration matters. She has extensive experience preparing profit and loss, turnover and hypothetical return analyses. Sasha holds a B.A. in Accounting from MidAmerica Nazarene University and an M.S. in Accounting & Financial Management from The University of Maryland University College.
202-794-7421 | email | vcard
Jonathon Carpenter
Jonathon first started work on broker-dealer arbitration matters more than 12 years ago. He has prepared numerous analyses involving large data sets for regulatory investigations. He has worked on more than 3,000 matters and holds a B.A. in Actuarial Mathematics from Lycoming College.
202-794-6772 | email | vcard
Selena Gabriel Dunn
Selena first started work on broker-dealer arbitration matters in 2004. She has prepared analyses for a variety of matters with claims including investor losses, portfolio over-concentration, churning and market-adjusted losses. She holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University Of Maine.
202-794-6767 | email | vcard
Noah Early
Noah has prepared analyses in support of broker-dealer arbitrations since 2004. He has prepared analyses on over five thousand brokerage accounts. He holds a B.S. in Economics from James Madison University
202-794-6749 | email | vcard
Nicholas Hall
Nicholas joined SLA after working for four years at Economic Analysis Group where he prepared analyses on nearly one thousand brokerage accounts. He has prepared various analyses to measure security performance and he has managed a team of analysts in the preparation of gain(loss) analyses. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington College and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.
202-794-7283 | email | vcard
Thomas McCarthy
Tom has worked on broker-dealer arbitrations since 2008. He has prepared analyses for a variety of matters including investor losses, portfolio over-concentration, churning and market-adjusted losses. Tom holds a B.A. in Economics and History from the University of Virginia.
202-794-6748 | email | vcard
Melissa Montgomery
Melissa joined SLA with nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. She served as a Senior Registered Client Associate with Bank of America/Merrill Lynch for nearly 20 years, providing operational and administrative support to clients with over $350 million of assets under management. Melissa has held Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.
202-794-7174 | email | vcard
Kelley Sands
Kelley joined SLA with Over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. She served as a Senior Registered Associate with Merrill Lynch and Raymond James. She provided operation and administrative support to clients with over $200 million of assets under management. Kelley has held Series 7 and Series 66 licenses.
202-794-7104 | email