User:Michael Gilburd

Michael Gilburd, businessman and valuation expert, President of ValuCorp International, Inc.; former managing director of corporate finance of American Express. From 1995 to 1999, his primary employment was managing director of corporate finance for two American Express (NYSE: AXP) companies, and for the five previous years he was national director of corporate finance and a member of the international corporate finance committee for BDO Seidman. He served as a Director of Freedom Golf Corporation (FGLC: OTCBB), a Director of Alden Lee Company, Inc. and The e-Trusts Network (dba of ETN, Ltd), as Vice President - Corporate Development of LJ International Inc. (NasdaqNM: JADE), and as the chairman and CEO of Earnhardt Co., Inc., an NASD broker-dealer specializing in business valuation, corporate finance, and investment banking. Mr. Gilburd also served as the Managing Director of Corporate Development of Arrowhead Health, Arizona's leading family medicine and Pain & Rehab facility. Mr. Gilburd's credentials include Accredited Senior Appraiser (Business Valuation Specialty - since 1989), SEC Registered Investment Advisor (1996 - 2000), NASD General Securities Principal (1984 - 2002), and CPA (New York State 1972 - inactive). Mr. Gilburd received a Masters of Science in Taxation from Bentley College, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Long Island University, New York.