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About US
The principals of the firm are professors who have taught a wide array of academic programs ranging from undergrad students starting out their careers to Executive MBA candidates looking to move up in their firms.
Professionally, they have run multiple training programs for various financial institutions & corporations, such as investment banking analyst programs, mid-level management training seminars, & on-site Board & C-Suite training.
Based on experience, these teaching skills are directly transferrable to explaining concepts to a corporate audience for staff training, or to a judge and jury in written form or testifying in court.
Managing Principals
Ben Sopranzetti, Ph.D.
Ben J. Sopranzetti, Ph.D., is a Managing Principal at Piermont Valuation Group. He is one of the country’s foremost experts in the areas of Business Valuation and Investment Banking. Dr. Sopranzetti is the Vice-Chair of Finance at Rutgers Business School. He serves on several corporate boards and is a leading valuation consultant and trainer at numerous Wall Street banks, including Bank of America, Bank of China, Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, Citigroup, UBS, and others. He also has worked with and trained senior management from Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Getinge, ITT, Boeing, General Motors, General Electric, among others.
He has published in the Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and other well-respected academic journals. Professor Sopranzetti is widely recognized as a master teacher. He is the recipient of seventeen awards for excellence in teaching and serves as a founding member of the Rutgers University Teaching Excellence Center. In 2008, he was honored by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s top twenty “Favorite Professors.”
Ben has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Rutgers University.
Braun Kiess, M.B.A.
Braun C. Kiess is a Managing Principal of Piermont Valuation Group. He is a successful financial executive, serial entrepreneur, educator and investor. With over 20 years of experience in a diverse range of industries, Mr. Kiess’ professional roles have included: Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Vice President of Sales & Marketing and Executive Director of Business Development. Mr. Kiess is currently the Cofounder and Chief Financial Officer of RST Automation LLC, the Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Pleasant Run Structures, the Founder and Chairman of Rainbow Direct, the Cofounder and Managing Director of Partners2Market LLC (D.B.A. Piermont Valuation Group) and the Cofounder and Managing Partner of Readington Brewery & Hop Farm. To date Mr. Kiess has been a founder or investor in over a dozen start-up companies.
Mr. Kiess sits on multiple corporate Boards of Directors and is a Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers Business School, where his courses include Entrepreneurial Finance, Evaluating New Business Ventures, and Principles of Finance and Accounting, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to being a member of the Rutgers faculty, Mr. Kiess is a widely recognized expert on Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Strategy. He is also a preferred instructor for various Rutgers Business School Executive Education (REE) programs. Mr. Kiess regularly consults to Fortune 500 companies and IP-based startups on valuation and has testified as an expert witness in forensic valuation and litigation support cases in Federal Court.
Mr. Kiess has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance (Summa Cum Laude) from Rutgers University, and has Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degrees from both Columbia Business School and London Business School.
OUR NEW BOOK
Valuation and Financial Forecasting: A Handbook for Academics and Practitioners
We have recently written and published a new handbook regarding our practices and knowledge of all topics relating to valuation. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a new entrant to the industry, we have written this book with the idea that these concepts are simple to learn yet complex in application. We seek to bridge those two situations together via our handbook.