Arik Van Zandt is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Valuation Services practice in Seattle, Washington. He specializes in the valuation of closely held businesses operating in a variety of industries for purposes of litigation support, acquisitions, sales, marriage dissolution, buy-sell agreements, incentive stock plans, and estate planning and taxation. Mr. Van Zandt also assists clients and counsel by providing expert witness testimony in matters involving complex commercial disputes and allegations of fraud, performs economic analysis for personal injury, wrongful death, and wrongful termination claims. With a broad base of experience, Mr. Van Zandt’s primary focus is to support clients in business disputes that concern the valuation of a business, or economic loss. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Van Zandt spent two separate stints spanning nine years with Grant Thornton where he was most recently a Senior Manager and Practice Leader in the Forensic and Valuation Group. Prior to re-joining Grant Thornton, Mr. Van Zandt was a CFO of a securities broker/dealer. Mr. Van Zandt earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University. Mr. Van Zandt is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) under the auspices of the American Society of Appraisers and holds the Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV). He is a member of the American Society of Appraisers, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, and is a Financial and Operations Principal (Series 27) FINRA registrant (inactive).

John Sawyer is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services. He specializes in the valuation of public and closely-held business and business segments, complex financial instruments, and related matters for financial statement reporting, tax reporting, corporate planning, litigation support, and other purposes. Mr. Sawyer’s primary areas of concentration are providing valuations of early stage and venture-backed companies, share-based compensation, financial instruments and derivatives, including options, warrants, convertible securities, swaps, market and performance based stock awards, and various embedded derivatives, for financial statement and tax reporting purposes. Mr. Sawyer has been involved with research and valuing companies in a variety of industries, including energy, green-tech, aerospace, blockchain, battery-technology, electronic vehicles, biotechnology and pharmaceutical, cryptocurrency mining, Internet, software, and a variety of other technology segments. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Sawyer worked in Grant Thornton LLP’s valuation service practice and Ernst & Young’s complex securities group, where he focused on quantitative analysis of financial instruments and early stage company valuation. Mr. Sawyer earned a bachelor of arts in business administration, with a finance concentration, from the Washington State University. Mr. Sawyer has co-presented on the following presentations: Advanced Lattice Modeling for Equity and Debt Securities in February 2015; Early Stage Companies: Mastering Valuation from Start-Up to Success Advanced Workshop in August 2016; Tax consequences of “ICOs” and Token Sales – December 2017; and.Cryptocurrency – Price v. Value – July 2018.