Doug Rogers is a highly experienced and leading business developer in the U.S. valuation industry.   Prior to joining Empire, Mr. Rogers was employed at CBIZ Valuation Group where he managed national business development activities for one of the top U.S. valuation firms.  Mr. Rogers focused on growing the firm’s private equity, hedge fund and public company market share of valuation services, principally solvency opinions, fairness opinions, and the full range of valuations required for financial and federal tax reporting matters.    He worked with nearly 175 U.S. funds, hundreds of portfolio companies/investments, and over 100 public companies.    Mr. Rogers organized and hosted numerous networking events and presented talks on a wide variety of valuation topics, helping CBIZ become a “go-to” valuation and quality of earnings (Q of E) firm for private equity and hedge funds, as well as public companies.

Prior to CBIZ, Mr. Rogers was an investment banker at New York-based Dean Witter Reynolds, Philadelphia-based Butcher & Singer, and at his own firm, Rogers Financial Group.   He engineered dozens of IPOS, advised on mergers and acquisitions and consulted for companies, ranging from start-ups to multi-billion-dollar funds.

Mr. Rogers graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Economics and was a member of Stanford’s Varsity Golf Team.  He followed that by earning his M.B.A at Harvard University (Harvard Business School).   Mr. Rogers served for six years on the Board of Directors and Programming Committee of the New York Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

EDUCATION

• MBA – Finance and Strategy - Harvard University
• BA – Economics and German – Stanford University