Meet The Team
HOWARD KRIEGER, ASA, CEIV

Howard is a Managing Director in CBIZ Valuation Group, LLC (“CBIZ”). He specializes in the valuation of complex financial instruments including crypto-currency loans, interest rate swaps, agency and non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
He is a former Big-4 Senior Manager responsible for a variety of assignments including: intangible business valuation, intellectual property valuation, financial modeling, valuation of equity participating instruments and other exotic financial assets/liabilities with almost 20 years’ experience. Howard has an MBA from Rutgers Business School with a concentration in Quantitative Finance


KEVIN THOMPSON
Publications
Avoiding Surprises in Structuring Stock-Based Compensation Awards Considerations to Keep in Mind When Issuing Stock Options Fair Value Measurements Impact on Financial Reporting
Organizations
American Society of Appraisers National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts
RYAN MEDLIN
Ryan Medlin is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist.
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His most recent exit was the sale of his proximity tracking and measurement company Datasnap.io in 2015 to Neustar where he then led a team of engineers to build out Neustar's IoT Identity initiatives. This included a product for IoT which was an improvement over normal PKI providing cryptography based policy enforcement and Identity Management in a highly decentralized architecture.
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As part of this responsibility for the past 2 years, many Blockchain and DLT based prototypes and concepts were given a lot of resources for prototype assessments. Platforms and protocols included: IoTA, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Rootstock, Lisk, NEO and many lower level protocols including things such as Telehash and Cothority.
Advisors
John Owens
Operations
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