Richard R SylvesterRichard R. Sylvester, J.D., Ph.D. is a mathematical economist with specialization in valuation. He is a specialist in determining economic damages, investment risk and uncertainty, contingent liabilities, and the present value of future cash flow forproperty rights. He has valued information technology firms, rental properties, patents, copyrights, and music rights. He is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods for assessment of risk, including stochastic calculus, for securities valuation including the probability of a specific range of future price fluctuation for a publicly traded stock. For three decades, he has been retained by major law firms and the Board of Directors of major corporations to value corporate stock, partnership shares, and the value of patents, copyrights, and intangible assets, for firms such as Comsat and Pioneer Electronics. As an independent expert, he was selected by the Internal Revenue Service to substantiate claims of $700 million income tax underpayment by two large integrated oil companies. He has over thirty years of top-level professional experience, including the corporate staff of Fortune 500 firms, including General Motors and Hughes Aircraft. He has served on the division staff of several firms, such as Lockheed California Company, TRW Systems Group, and General Dynamics. He established the land acquisition price for major land development projects for Great Southwest Corporation. He qualified as an expert witness in Federal District Court, U.S. Federal Claims Court, and California Superior Court. For over three decades, his background has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry (1980-2015). He won competitive academic awards from the Ford Foundation, General Motors, the U.S. Federal Government, and the Regents of the University of California (1957-70). He was a featured guest speaker at the 1980 national economic seminar, sharing the speaker's podium with former President Ford. He was a featured economist on ABC Prime Time Live, June 27, 1991, a documentary nominated for the Emmy. For three decades, he has advised the boards of major corporations and agencies of the U.S. Government regarding strategic planning and direction for advanced technology projects. For two decades, as a Lecturer or Associate Professor, he has taught economics, business law, quantitative methods, and management at UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Loyola, University of Redlands, and California State University. His education includes the following: J.D., Loyola Law School, Dean's Honor List, Federal Tax Law, 1981. Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA, Electronics Engineering, 1971-74. Ph.D., UCLA, Economics, Management, Marketing, Engineering, 1970. M.B.A., USC, Management, Finance, 1962. B.A., UCLA, Letters and Science, 1959. Read More Read Less