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3. Experts Appointed by the Court
The Court-appointed experts are J. Darrell Duffie (Duffie)
and Barry S. Sziklay (Sziklay). Duffie was appointed by the
Court as an expert in the field of financial economics and
financial derivatives. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering systems
from Stanford University, a master’s of economics (economic
statistics) from the University of New England (Australia), and a
bachelor’s of science in engineering from the University of New
Brunswick (Canada). He is employed as the James Irvin Miller
Professor of Finance at Stanford University’s Graduate School of
Business, where he teaches courses in the doctoral, executive,
and MBA programs and has been a member of Stanford’s finance
faculty since 1984. He teaches and conducts research in various
subject areas, including the market valuation of securities, and
he spends a significant portion of his teaching and research
focusing on the market valuation and management of credit risk.
He has consulted and written a multitude of articles and books on
subjects related to financial derivative securities, fixed-income
pricing, risk management, and credit risk.
Sziklay was appointed by the Court as an expert in the field
of fair market value and GAAP. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
accounting and economics from Queens College and is a certified
public accountant in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. His
practice focuses on business valuation, and he has a specialty
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