Roger has overall responsibility for Axiom Valuation operations. He is the principal valuation analyst for Axiom Valuation’s Value Estimate service, and is also involved in most certified valuations and FASB 141/142 work. Roger is also a Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser through the National Equipment and Business Builders Institute, www.nebbi.org. Axiom Valuation now offers USPAP-compliant and FASB 141-compliant appraisals of machinery and equipment.

Roger has over twenty years of management experience in small and mid-sized company settings. From 1985 to 1994, he served as Group Vice President for U.S. Sales, Marketing, and Consulting of DRI/Standard & Poors, the leading U.S. economic analysis and industry forecasting firm. He also served on DRI’s Executive Committee during this time. From 1994 to 1998, he was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President for Chadwick Martin Bailey, a Boston-based custom market research firm.

While at Chadwick Martin Bailey and later at Abt Associates, Roger developed a thorough knowledge of the preferences, needs, and attitudes of small business owners from leading several market research studies on this segment for financial services clients. Roger received a B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College.