Dr. G. William (Bill) Kennedy, Ph.D., CPA/ABV, is a managing director in the Expert Services practice for Kroll in the Boston office. He has over 30 years of professional experience including serving as a partner with a Midwest regional CPA firm and holding managing director positions with global litigation consulting firms. For the past 20 years, his practice has focused on business valuation, economic damages, lost profits and litigation support services where he has testified in numerous state and federal courts and before international arbitration tribunals.
Dr. G. William (Bill) Kennedy, Ph.D., CPA/ABV, is a managing director in the Expert Services practice for Kroll in the Boston office. He has over 30 years of professional experience including serving as a partner with a Midwest regional CPA firm and holding managing director positions with global litigation consulting firms. For the past 20 years, his practice has focused on business valuation, economic damages, lost profits and litigation support services where he has testified in numerous state and federal courts and before international arbitration tribunals.
Bill is a 2003 inductee into the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame. He is the former Chair of both the AICPA ABV Credentials Committee and the AICPA ABV Examination Committee. He was also a member of the AICPA M&A Disputes Resolution Taskforce that authored the AICPA Practice Aid, Mergers and Acquisitions Disputes. He is currently a member of the American Society of Appraisers Business Valuation Review Editorial Review Board.
Bill has held various academic positions, including the rank of Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure). He currently serves as Adjunct Professor for the graduate accounting program at Florida Atlantic University where he developed and teaches a course on fair value measurement. He is a frequent speaker on both valuation and statistics related topics at AICPA and ASA National Conferences.
He has substantial doctoral level training in statistics and econometrics and has taught statistics at the college and university level. He has presented numerous sessions on the use of statistics and time series analysis in valuation and litigation support engagements at the AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services conferences and American Society of Appraisers Advanced Business Valuation conferences. He has recently co-authored a chapter on the use of statistics in litigation support engagements that is included in a professional text on litigation support for financial experts and attorneys. He has utilized sophisticated statistical and econometric methodologies and provided testimony on their use in litigation support engagements.
Bill has a Ph.D. in finance from Saint Louis University, and a B.S. and M.A.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois. He is a CPA and holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) designation.
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