Dr. Donald M. DePamphilis has managed through closing more than 30 transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, licensing, and supply agreements in a variety of different industries. These industries include financial services, software, metals manufacturing, business consulting, healthcare, automotive, communications, and real estate. He earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

He is currently Emeritus Professor of Finance at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he has taught mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, deal making, financial analysis, financial modeling, micro- and macroeconomics (to both business and nonbusiness majors) to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA students. In addition, he has taught corporate governance and executive leadership to Executive MBA students.

He has also served as an instructor in the Loyola Marymount University International Executive Education Program, teaching corporate restructuring tactics and strategies in a global context. He has served as chair of the Student Investment Fund at Loyola Marymount University’s College of Business and has been a member of the graduate business program curriculum committee. He has also directed curriculum development and faculty recruitment efforts in specific teaching modules within the University’s Executive MBA program.

He is the recipient of the Loyola Marymount University Executive MBA Leadership Achievement Award and has represented the University on the Los Angeles Council of Economic Advisors serving Mayor Eric Garcetti on matters relating to the economy.

He has lectured on M&A and corporate restructuring, financial analysis, and economics at the University of California, at Irvine, Chapman University, and Concordia University. As a visiting professor, he taught mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring strategies at the Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in Shanghai, China. He has also served as a Teaching Fellow in economics at Harvard University.

The author has more than 25 years of experience in businesses ranging in size from small privately owned firms to Fortune 100 companies in various industries and with varying degrees of responsibility. Previously, he served as vice president of Electronic Commerce for Experian Corporation, vice president of Business Development at TRW Information Systems and Services, senior vice president of Planning and Marketing at PUH Health Systems, director of Corporate Business Planning at TRW, and chief economist for National Steel Corporation (formerly a Fortune 100 company).

He also served as Director of Banking and Insurance Economics for Chase Econometric Associates providing consulting services to dozens of clients in private industry and the government and as an economic analyst for United California Bank. While at United California Bank, he developed a complex, interactive econometric forecasting and simulation model of the US economy, which was used in both internal and external bank forecasts and in conducting simulations of alternative economic outcomes based on differing assumptions. He has also spoken to numerous industry trade associations and customer groups and to Los Angeles community and business groups. He is a graduate of the TRW and National Steel Corporation Executive Management programs.

He has authored numerous articles, chapters in books, and books on M&A. He has published in the areas of business planning and development, marketing, and economics in peer-reviewed academic journals as well as business and trade publications. His books include the highly popular, award-winning Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, now in its ninth edition; Mergers and Acquisitions Basics: All You Need to Know; and Merger and Acquisition Basics: Negotiation and Deal Structuring. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities has been translated into Chinese (now in its second edition) and Russian and has been used in more than 120 universities worldwide. The seventh edition was voted the 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) in the business book category by the Text and Academic Authors Association. For more detail, see http://www.taaonline.net/2014-taa-textbook-award-winners.

He has served as a consultant in product and personal liability, patent infringement, and business valuation litigation, including but not limited to providing expert analysis and depositions in cases primarily related to mergers and acquisitions. He has also served in an advisory capacity on matters of acquisition target selection, negotiation support, and business valuation.

The author has been a board member of the National Council of Orange County (California), Economics Club of Pittsburgh, Economic Council of Western Pennsylvania, and the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania. He has also been active in the Rotary Club and Junior Achievement.

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