Dr. Vellrath was on the faculties of the graduate business schools at New York University and the University of Washington for a total of eight years. In 1986, he left academia to join Ernst & Young as a consultant. While at Ernst & Young and continuing at Analysis Group, Inc., a national economics consulting firm, Dr. Vellrath began to build a consulting practice focused on banking, financial markets, and economic damages. He continued to work in these areas at KeyPoint Consulting, which he founded in 1996. In 2006, Dr. Vellrath formed Finance Scholars Group with his long-time colleague, Professor Anthony Saunders, Chairman of the Finance Department at New York University.Specialties: Led a team analyzing failure of Bank of New England; analyzed lending practices of two large, failed commercial banks; analyzed the efficiency of markets for stocks, bonds, ADRs and other securities; analyzed damages caused by design errors at the world’s largest nitrogen plant; analyzed damages to financial institutions from loss of supervisory goodwill; quantified damages for the DOJ’s Enron Task Force; analyzed harm caused by market timing in mutual funds.
Listed skills include Valuation, Financial Modeling, Economics, Finance, and 14 others.