| Barry S. Sziklay, CPA, ABV, CFF, PFS, a partner at Friedman LLP, is a nationally recognized valuation and litigation support practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in a broad range of CPA firms as well as within the investment banking industry. He was a founding and managing member of a major New York-area PCAOB-registered financial services firm serving individuals, domestic and international businesses and their attorneys. Mr. Sziklay has served as an expert witness in valuation, economic damages, theft of intellectual property, forensic accounting, securities fraud, accountants’ malpractice, and fiduciary dispute cases. An accomplished author and speaker, he has shared his knowledge and thought leadership on valuation, forensic accounting, litigation support, mergers and acquisitions, income, gift, trust and estate and other financial planning matters in a variety of forums—serving on editorial boards, writing for industry publications and contributing course materials and training programs for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Federal Judiciary, the United States Tax Court and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Sziklay is a member of the AICPA, the NJSCPA, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA), and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA). From December 2002 – August 2007, Mr. Sziklay was a member of the AICPA’s National Accreditation Commission (“NAC”), and Chairman of its Accredited in Business Valuation Task Force, which is the senior body of the AICPA reporting directly to the Board of Directors that oversees all specialty accreditations. Mr. Sziklay is a member of the national teaching faculty of the AICPA. He authored a major segment of the review course for the AICPA’s Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) specialty designation. He is also an inductee in the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame. Mr. Sziklay is the first business appraiser in the United States to be appointed as a business appraisal expert by the United States Tax Court in a case involving financial derivatives, and he developed a comprehensive approach to valuing financial service industry receivables for the IRS. He is also one of the first business appraisers to provide the FBI with training involving the use of business appraisal and forensic accounting techniques related to money laundering, white-collar crime and offshore entities. He graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Accounting and in Economics. |  |