Suzanne M. Buckley

Suzanne Buckley has over 15 years of experience in litigation matters, primarily involving intellectual property, breach of contract, false advertising, and other commercial disputes.  She has provided an expert report and deposition testimony in a breach of contracts case involving lighting controls, and has participated in all aspects of case work in a wide range of matters.

Ms. Buckley has acquired extensive experience in intellectual property disputes and litigation, and in the assessment of economic damages, including reasonable royalties, lost profits and price erosion, and the evaluation of economic alternatives. She has assisted counsel and their clients in many different industries including cellular phones, cameras, televisions, digital storage media, semiconductors, medical equipment, computer hardware and software, lighting controls, and telecommunications.

Previously, Ms. Buckley taught economics and worked on USAID-funded projects to implement legal and institutional reforms in several countries.

Ms. Buckley holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. in economics and mathematics (with distinction) from Swarthmore College. She is fluent in French and Arabic.

Michael J. Doane

Mr. Doane has over 25 years of experience conducting economic research in the areas of antitrust, regulation, and complex business litigation. He has been named as an expert, given testimony, and made presentations before regulatory commissions in more than 15 states and before courts of law and arbitration panels. He served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case and has participated in some of the largest merger investigations in U.S. history, including those associated with the proposed combinations of Oracle and PeopleSoft, Exxon and Mobil, MCI WorldCom and Sprint, and Pepsico and Quaker.

Mr. Doane has served as a consulting economist in price-fixing matters involving numerous industries, including vitamins, methionine, rubber chemicals, memory chips, heavy-lift vessels, funeral services, wood products, and nurses wages, among others. His articles have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Yale Journal on Regulation, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and the Energy Journal, among others.

Before joining Competition Economics LLC, Mr. Doane was a director at ERS Group and a principal of Analysis Group, Inc., where he managed the firm’s San Francisco office and served on the board of directors.

Mr. Doane holds an MA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a BA in economics from the University of Connecticut.

Brett L. Reed

Mr. Reed specializes in the economic analysis of intellectual property, including the assessment of economic alternatives, lost profits, price erosion, reasonable royalties, and other valuation/damages issues. He also has extensive experience providing detailed analyses and expert reports evaluating antitrust issues and economic damages associated with false advertising, antitrust, fraud, termination, and business interference claims.

Mr. Reed has frequently served as an expert witness on significant patent infringement matters and has testified on patent infringement damages in trial in district courts across the United States. He has also provided testimony at hearings at the International Trade Commission, and in trial and arbitrations in other matters throughout America and in Sweden. In his 30+ years as an economic consultant, Mr. Reed has worked on projects covering hundreds of companies from numerous high-technology industries, including consumer electronics, information services, semiconductors, computers and components, TVs and displays, software and games as well as the telecommunications (including cell phones and mobile networks), broadcasting, automotive, oilfield equipment, biotechnology and medical equipment industries. In addition to leading to expert testimony, these efforts include assisting in the evaluation and negotiation of patent license agreements. With extensive, continuous exposure to leading company and industry information sources, Mr. Reed has acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the competitive, licensing and financial environments of high-tech industries. He also has expertise with economic analysis in a number of other industries, including real estate, construction, entertainment, and consumer goods. He has also written and lectured on patent damages and intellectual property valuation. Mr. Reed holds an MA in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and a BA in economics from the University of California at Irvine.

Mikhael Shor

David S. Sibley

David S. Sibley is the John Michael Stuart Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In October 2004, he completed an 18-month term as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the highest-ranking economics position in the Antitrust Division. While at the Antitrust Division, Professor Sibley supervised all economic analysis (including both merger and non-merger investigations) and directed the Division’s Economic Analysis Group. In this capacity, he contributed to the economic analysis of general policy issues, such as vertical restraints, including bundled loyalty discounts and vertical mergers. He also represented the  in OECD discussions on vertical foreclosure.

During the past 30  years, Professor Sibley has carried out extensive research in the areas of industrial organization, microeconomic theory, and regulation. His publications have appeared in a number of leading economic journals, including the Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, Rand Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the International Economic Review, among others. He is also a co-author (with Steven J. Brown) of a leading textbook on monopoly pricing, The Theory of Public Utility Pricing, which was published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Sibley has consulted extensively for various firms and agencies, both in the United States and abroad, on antitrust and regulatory matters. He served as a consultant to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust case, including both trial and remedy phases. He has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on several matters involving the competitive effects of horizontal and vertical mergers. Professor Sibley holds a PhD in economics from Yale University and a BA in economics from Stanford University.

Steven Tschantz

Steven Tschantz is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University, where he has taught since 1984. His areas of specialization include logic, universal algebra, and computer algebra. Among his classes at Vanderbilt, he teaches mathematical modeling in economics.

Professor Tschantz has devised, developed, and programmed simulation models to address such economic issues as the effects of merger efficiencies on consumers; the price effects of post-merger product repositioning; competition among firms with capacity constraints; and the effects of assumed demand for simulating post-merger equilibrium.

Professor Tschantz has published research on these topics that have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Industrial Economics, European Competition Journal, and the Review of Industrial Organization, among others. He has consulted on merger investigations in a variety of industries, including long-distance telecommunications, health care, cable TV, parking systems, and soft drinks.

Professor Tschantz holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

R. Lawrence Van Horn

R. Lawrence Van Horn is a Professor of Health Care Management and Faculty Director of the Health Care Program at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics.

Professor Van Horn's research on health care organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals, and the conduct of managed care firms, has appeared in such leading publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, Journal of Public Budgeting and Financial Management, and Harvard Business Review. Professor Van Horn's current research interests include nonprofit conduct, governance and objectives in health care markets, and the measurement of health care outcomes and productivity.

Prior to joining Owen, Professor Van Horn served as Associate Professor of Economics and Management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, where he created and served as Director of the Institute for Health Care Management. While at Simon, he developed and coordinated all health science programs, including the school's MBA in health care and various non-degree executive programs. He has been honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellow and has presented at numerous leading seminars and conferences sponsored by industry, government, and academic institutions. Professor Van Horn has conducted industry research for such organizations as Kodak Health Imaging, Health Care Financing Administration, Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has also consulted for national consulting firms, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical firms, and foreign governments.

Professor Van Horn holds a PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BA, MPH, and MBA degrees from the University of Rochester.

Michael A. Williams

Dr. Williams specializes in analyses involving antitrust, industrial organization, and regulation. He has provided written and/or oral testimony before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; State of Connecticut, Superior Court; State of Nevada, Gaming Commission and State Gaming Control Board; Public Utilities Commissions in Arkansas, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington; and before the American Arbitration Association.

Dr. Williams has been retained as an economic consultant by the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and the Canadian Competition Bureau.

Dr. Williams has published articles in a number of academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Behavioral Science, Review of Industrial Organization, Antitrust Bulletin, Texas Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation.

Previously, Dr. Williams was an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. He holds a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Williams has served as the damages expert in cases that collectively have resolved for more than $1 billion.

Wei Zhao

Vanessa Abernathy

Ms. Abernathy has a B.A. in global economics from UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in economics from the University of San Francisco.

Kimiko Hayashi

Ms. Hayashi has a B.A. in economics from Utah State University and an M.S. in economics from Utah State University. 

Ellen Li

Grace Man

Ms. Man has a B.A. in International Economics and Trade from Beijing Normal University, and a M.A. in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin as well as an M.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University.

Gilberto Moreno-Lopez

Mr. Moreno-Lopez has a B.A. in economics and development studies from UC Berkeley. 

Sneha Sreeram

Bruce Yu