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Dr. Michael Cragg is a Senior Partner at Keystone where he focuses on strategy, antitrust, damages, finance, and valuation disputes. He is a member of Keystone's global leadership team and focuses on both business strategy consulting and expert witness services.His career has focused on the cross-over between finance and industrial organization dating to when he taught at Columbia’s and UCLA’s economics departments and schools of business. He speaks and publishes regularly on competition economics, corporate finance, and valuation. Dr. Cragg has testified and consulted on high profile matters throughout his career. In the last two years, the American Antitrust Institute and Global Competition Review recognized the Blue Cross Blue Shield MDL and US Airways v Sabre case teams he led for their contributions to antitrust enforcement. He was the lead expert responsible for successfully rebutting Chairman Bernanke, and Secretaries Paulsen and Geithner in the AIG takings case. He has testified on behalf of the government and taxpayers on intercompany financings, joint ventures, and partnerships. He has experience across a variety of industries including electricity, oil and gas, platforms, telecommunications, sports and entertainment, high tech and software, airlines, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health insurance, health care providers, payment systems, and financial and commodity markets. His strategy work includes reorganizing an energy trading and marketing operation for sale, optimizing sales and marketing operations in pharmaceutical and CPG companies, and applying cutting edge financial methods to increase returns to R&D for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies. He is currently a director of DemandQ which is an AI driven energy SaaS company and Cellucomp which is a materials sciences company that is replacing plastic with biodegradable materials for packaging in the CPG industry.Mike began his career as a professor at Columbia University and UCLA's Anderson School of Management, where he taught courses in health care economics, public finance, strategy, industrial organization, and econometrics. In his free time Mike pursues an active outdoors life with his four teenage and young adult children and competes in Ironman triathlons. He is currently a director and former Chairman of the Cambridge Montessori School, and a former director of the Waterville Valley Academy and the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County. He is currently a director of DemandQ and Cellucomp.

Listed skills include Econometrics, Valuation, Corporate Finance, Stata, and 5 others.