Mr. Purcell is the leader of Seale & Associates' Expert Testimony and Litigation Support
Practice. Mr. Purcell has over 35 years of experience in investment banking. He has served
as an expert on more than 75 occasions and written more than 50 fairness opinions during
his career. Mr. Purcell has participated in more than 100 merger and acquisition transactions
and has extensive experience in all areas of corporate finance, including: mergers and
acquisitions; public and private equity and debt financings; and venture capital.
Prior to joining Seale & Associates, Mr. Purcell was Managing Director for, and spent 25 years with,
Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. After leaving Dillon Read, he remained active in both merger and
acquisition activities and held various corporate management positions. Mr. Purcell serves
as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Business Talk Radio, Inc.
Mr. Purcell received a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A.
from New York University.
Dr. Overstreet serves as Associate Dean for Research and Center Development as well as Director
of the Center for Growth Enterprises at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.
As Professor of Commerce and holder of the Walker Chair in Growth Enterprises, Dr. Overstreet
teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in corporate financial management, strategic valuation,
and real estate investment and finance.
Dr. Overstreet has extensive experience in valuation and modeling. He has conducted
a series of consultancies over his career, specializing in valuation.
He also conducted an economic assessment of discriminatory premium taxation
that went before the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he developed
a series of specialized financial models specifically designed for strategic
investment decisions within the petroleum marketing industry. His consulting
projects have included modeling credit risk with an emphasis on consumer credit
scoring models. His research in credit scoring is internationally recognized.
His research portfolio includes numerous cases, monographs, and referred articles
appearing in the following journals: European Journal of Operational Research,
Journal of Operational Research Society, Journal of Bank Research, Journal of
Retail Banking, Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, Journal of Risk and Insurance,
Journal of Insurance Regulation, Journal of Real Estate Research, The Cornell
Quarterly, Credit Union Executive, Long Range Planning, IMA Journal of Mathematics
in Business and Industry, Journal of Financial Education, and Journal of Case Research.
Dr. Overstreet has served on the Boards of Directors of several firms and was intimately
involved in the negotiated sale of one of the firms - the RF&P, a real estate investment
trust - for $600 million. Currently, he serves on the boards of two start-up firms initiated
by University of Virginia alumni as well as the advisory board of a private equity group.
Professor Overstreet received a B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. In addition, he was a Huebner Post-Doctoral Fellow at
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Weiner is Chairman of the Department of International Business, and Professor of
International Business and International Affairs, at the School of Business at George
Washington University. He is concurrently Membre Associé, GREEN (Groupe de Recherche en
Économie de l'Énergie et des Ressources Naturelles), Département d'économique,
Université Laval, Québec. Dr. Weiner has taught at Harvard University, Brandeis
University, and the Royal Complutense University (Spain). He has lectured to
executives in Russia, Spain, and the United States. During the 1997-1998
academic year, he was Visiting Professor of International Economics at the
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Dr. Weiner has been Research Fellow in the International Energy Program, Center for
Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
and consultant to the International Petroleum Exchange; the New York Mercantile
Exchange; the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. International Trade Commission;
the Harvard Institute for International Development; the World Bank; and private
clients. He has won research awards from the Ministère des Affaires Internationales,
Québec; Resources for the Future; the Columbia Center for the Study of Futures
Markets; and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Additionally, Dr. Weiner has authored or coauthored four books
(Energy and Environment, Oil Shock, Oil and Money, and Oil Markets in a
Turbulent Era), and more than fifty articles on environmental and natural
resource economics, focusing on contracting, risk management, and the oil
and gas industry.
Dr. Weiner received his A.B. in Applied Mathematics, and A.M. and Ph.D.
in Business Economics from Harvard University.
