WHO WE ARE
Our responsive team also includes professionals who have earned advanced degrees and credentials necessary to understand our client’s issues. (Listed in alphabetical order below.)
JOHN D. GLENN, PRESIDENT & MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Mr. Glenn, President and Managing Director of The Mentor Group, has extensive experience with the accounting, tax, and financial aspects of business valuations, acquisitions and real estate appraisals. A nationally recognized expert in gift and estate taxes, he frequently speaks on these and other technical valuation issues.
MANAGING DIRECTORS
BRAD M. CASHION, CFA
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Mr. Brad Cashion is a Managing Director with The Mentor Group in the Glendale, CA, San Diego, CA and Orange County, CA offices. He is expert at valuing businesses and all types of securities, as well as intellectual property. In addition, he has completed sales of businesses and financings for reorganizations. Mr. Cashion has counseled many companies regarding fairness opinions, stock options for IPO's, and acquisitions.
FRANZ K. FLEISCHLI, JD
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Mr. Fleischli is a Managing Director of The Mentor Group. He has extensive experience in all facets of the appraisal and valuation industry, including large multi-state, multi-discipline engagements. He has assisted in the structuring of complex financial solutions for mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions, going public or private, financings of all types, business tax planning, estate planning, and bankruptcies.
FRANK R. HOUGH, CCM
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Frank R. Hough is a Managing Director and Senior Consultant supervising all management consulting activities at The Mentor Group. He has an extensive background in commercial banking, the energy and real estate sectors, and financial and management consulting.
RUSSELL A. PATTERSON
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Mr. Patterson is a Managing Director and Senior Financial Appraiser with The Mentor Group, Inc. With over 25 years of financial consulting and valuation, he is experienced in nearly every type and size of business. In addition to valuing numerous businesses, he has expertise in all securities - restricted stock, preferred stock, warrants, options, different classes of common stock, debt instruments, and other investments.
WESLEY E. ROMBERGER III
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Mr. Wesley Romberger is a Managing Director and Senior Financial Appraiser with The Mentor Group. He has diverse and substantive expertise in the valuation of private, public, and closely-held companies. Studies have involved options, preferred and common stock, derivative securities pricing and intangible assets. He has counseled many buyers and sellers, and written detailed prospectus for raising capital.
FRITZ STREHLOW, CSBA
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Mr. Fritz Strehlow is a Managing Director with expertise and experience in business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, raising equity, and business management. His work has involved private and public entities - corporations and partnerships.
TODD B. WOHL, ASA
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Todd Wohl is Managing Director of Auction and Appraisal Services for The Mentor Group. He is a specialist in Oral Outcry auctions, as well as the appraisal of real estate, equipment and inventory. He has sold machinery and equipment in many industries, such as computer, healthcare, automobile, food processing and packaging, printing, retail and numerous others. Also, he has auctioned residential, retail, commercial, and industrial real property.
SENIOR PROFESSIONALS
The TMG management team includes persons well-known in their respective disciplines. We have relevant experience in nearly every industry and with every type of asset.
ROGER CHANTEL, ASA
Mr. Chantel manages and performs machinery and equipment appraisals throughout the United States. These appraisals have been used for financing, property tax, allocation of purchase price, and other purposes. He has testified in court on numerous occasions.
ROBERT F. EFFINGER
Mr. Effinger is a Vice President with The Mentor Group, Inc. He manages and performs a variety of real estate and construction related services, with emphasis on cost segregation studies to maximize tax savings from accelerated depreciation.
ROBERT HUNT, ASA
Mr. Hunt manages and performs machinery and equipment appraisals throughout the United States. He has a particular specialty in the food and agriculture industries and all types of industrial equipment. Mr. Hunt is expert in modeling for forced liquidation.
BERT JONES, ASA
Mr. Jones manages and performs appraisals for a wide variety of equipment and machinery - from computers and peripherals to steel making and MRI's. On numerous occasions he has testified in court as an expert witness.
MARK S. JUSTMANN, MAI
Mr. Justmann is a Senior Real Estate Appraiser with The Mentor Group. His experience spans multi-state and international appraisals for all types of commercial, industrial, multi-family, vacant land, and special purpose facilities. Most of his appraisals have involved the Western U.S. - California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Colorado.
JOHN KRUZINSKI, ASA
Mr. Kruzinski manages and performs machinery and equipment, and real estate appraisals throughout the United States. He has a particular specialty in the food and agriculture industry. These appraisals have been used for numerous purposes, including sales-leaseback, property tax, financing, bankruptcy and auctions.
ALEXANDER KURIN
Mr. Kurin manages and performs real estate appraisals throughout the United States. He has a particular specialty in multi-location projects. These appraisals have been used for financing, sale, reorganization, property and estate tax, depreciation basis, and allocation of purchase price.
FREDRICK L. MASTERMAN, ASA
Mr. Masterman is a Senior Appraiser with The Mentor Group. He is proficient in the appraisal of personal property, specializing in manufacturing process machinery and data processing equipment. Mr. Masterman has provided expert witness testimony regarding fair market, residual, and liquidation values of all types of machinery and equipment.
ROBERT ROSS, ASA
Mr. Ross manages and performs real estate appraisals throughout the United States. These appraisals have been used for financing, tax purposes and estate planning purposes. Facilities analyzed include offices, hotels, shopping centers, apartments, processing plants, refineries, etc.
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