Gregory J. Sullivan, ASA, CBA

Greg is a Managing Director of Empire Valuation Consultants, LLC., an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), designated in business valuation, of the American Society of Appraisers, and a Certified Business Appraiser (CBA).  He holds an MBA in Finance and Corporate Accounting from the University of Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business and a BBA in Finance from St. Bonaventure University.  He is a past Vice President of the Western New York Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers, a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers, and a Professional Member of the ESOP Association.

Greg has twenty years of commercial banking and business valuation experience.  He has performed and managed a wide variety of valuation engagements involving diverse business interests, including:

• various classes of corporate equity, debt, and derivative securities;
• limited partnership and limited liability company interests;
• carried interests; and
• intangible assets and intellectual property.

These engagements have been for merger / acquisition / divestiture consulting, fairness opinions, gift and estate tax reporting, ESOP and ERISA plan administration, and financial reporting.

Prior to joining Empire, Greg was an officer of a major New England commercial bank where he managed a group responsible for evaluating both closely held and publicly traded companies for the extension of commercial credit and the provision of international trade banking services.  He also managed portions of that institution's loan officer development program and taught seminars on financial and credit analysis for commercial lending purposes.  Greg also spent a number of years working in the mutual and pension fund custody industry.