C. Paul Wazzan, Ph.D., is a director with Berkeley Research Group and heads the firm’s Century City (Los Angeles) office. Dr. Wazzan specializes in providing financial, economic, and statistical expertise in the areas of complex damages (e.g., breach of contract, fraud, false advertising, antitrust), finance (e.g., valuation, corporate finance, securities fraud/10b5, option valuation, class certification, pricing of mortgage risk and MBS/CDOs, commodities price manipulation), intellectual property (e.g., patent and trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets), labor and employment (e.g., class certification, managerial misclassification, wage & hour, discrimination), antitrust and competition policy (e.g., market definition, merger analysis, predatory pricing, price-fixing, exclusionary conduct, price discrimination, attempted monopolization), and public policy.

Dr. Wazzan holds a Ph.D. in finance from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in economics from UC Berkeley. He has testified in federal, state, and bankruptcy courts, the International Trade Commission, domestic and international arbitration proceedings, and in front of legislative bodies.

Dr. Wazzan is president and CEO of Wazzan & Co. Investment LLC, a venture capital firm providing seed-level funding to firms specializing in semiconductor, optical networking, bio-mechanical, bio-medical, and related technologies. Dr. Wazzan has been an adjunct assistant professor of business and economics at California State University, Los Angeles and has taught at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

Dr. Wazzan’s analyses have covered a wide range of industries, including basic manufacturing (e.g., automotive, mining, oil and gas, steel, food processing and distribution), high-tech (e.g., aircraft and avionics, semiconductors, digital signal processors, personal computers, computer peripherals), real estate (e.g., diminution of value, appropriate interest rates in bankruptcy settings, lending discrimination), financial services (e.g., banking, metals and other commodities trading, organized financial markets), and pharmaceuticals (e.g., pricing of proteins, drugs and the modeling of expected sales).

Dr. Wazzan’s research on predatory pricing, the economics of patent licensing, the impact of socially motivated shareholder activism on securities prices, the effects of federal and state legislation on medical care costs, and the use of statistics in labor law analyses has been published in economics journals and law reviews.

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management
  Ph.D., Finance, 1996
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  B.A., Economics, 1989
  

Honors

• Moskowitz Prize for outstanding research in the field of socially responsible investing.
  Social Investment Forum/Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
  1999