BERKELEY RESEARCH GROUP, LLC
EMERYVILLE, CA

Our clients benefit from BRG’s intellectual rigor, industry expertise, and track record in navigating dynamic business environments. We have the agility to assemble teams with the specific, nuanced talent needed to address a particular problem and provide highly specialized and strategic advice. Drawing on a strong foundation in data analytics, BRG comprises highly credentialed experts, prominent academics, CPAs, experienced business leaders, former government officials, and seasoned consultants. Berkeley Research Group is a leading global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm that provides independent advice, data analytics, valuation, authoritative studies, expert testimony, investigations, transaction advisory, restructuring services, and regulatory and dispute consulting to Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, government agencies, major law firms, and regulatory bodies around the world. Dr. Teece is a renowned economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property. He is the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former member of the board of overseers for the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. (November/December 2005), he is the lead author on the most-cited article in economics and business worldwide from 1995 to 2005. Thomson Scientific recognized him as one of the 10 most-cited scholars from 1997 to 2007, and Accenture has named him one of the world's top 50 business intellectuals. In addition, he is among the "A-List of Management Academics 2011," an honorary group of 30 accomplished and distinguished U.S. business professors. Mr. Kaplan, a member of BRG's board of directors, specializes in antitrust economics (including matters related to claimed price fixing and monopolization), damage assessment in intellectual property matters (including those involving patents and trade secrets), and analysis of damage issues related to general commercial litigation (including issues related to valuation). He has served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics,  Department of Justice, and Senate Judiciary Committee. He has published in the field of economics, taught business statistics in the MBA program at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a lecturer in economics at George Mason University. Mr. MacDonald is a senior member of BRG's Health Analytics practice and a leader in the firm’s International Healthcare and Pharmaceutical practices. For over 20 years, he has provided accounting, financial, statistical, data analytical, and operational consulting services to clients in the healthcare, life sciences, insurance, banking, and government contracting arenas. Mr. Rowley brings over 25 years of experience in the expert services and litigation consulting industry. He has held various management positions in both public and private entities. His responsibilities included national, regional, and practice area oversight as well as business development and marketing disciplines. Mr. Miller has spent his career working at professional services firms. He served as FTI's general counsel from 2006 to 2015, at which time he returned to DLA Piper (where he had spent his entire career until joining FTI). Mr. Miller holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received his B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University with honors. Need help finding an expert? Our experienced team can advise on finding the right expert for the issues facing your business. Berkeley Research Group is dedicated to providing the right expertise to address the complex issues facing our clients. In addition to the experts on the BRG team, we can connect you with a global network of affiliated firms, universities, and individuals that possess a broad range of specialized knowledge in a wide variety of disciplines.  Understanding how peers implement cybersecurity to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data provides valuable insight. Such insights help in not only recognizing current trends, but also enabling the identification of individual strengths and areas for improvement and allowing for the benchmarking across peers. In Q1 and Q2 2016, experts at BRG conducted a Cybersecurity Preparedness Benchmarking Study among leading global organizations. The respondents provided views on the state of their organizations’ cybersecurity preparedness, upcoming trends, and information on internal subjects such as security budget and organizational structure. Consumer Products & Apparel - Corporate Finance Consumer Products & Apparel - Corporate Finance