Biography

Rod Burkert is a co-founder of Burkert Valuation Advisors, LLC, a business valuation and litigation consulting services firm. With a background of combined experience in public accounting and private industry, Rod performs appraisals for companies operating in a wide variety of industries. He focuses on engagements and assignments related to income/gift/estate situations, marital dissolution proceedings, intellectual property infringement, partner/shareholder disputes, and commercial damage/economic loss matters.

Between 1996 and 2005, Rod was a member of and a lead instructor for the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) Training Development Team, which develops and presents professional education courses on business valuations at training centers throughout the United States. Rod is a past chairman of NACVA’s Executive Advisory Board and Education Board. He is a recipient of various NACVA instructor awards, including Circle of Light (the highest distinction given to NACVA instructors) and Instructor of the Year, and has been named one of NACVA’s Outstanding Members.

Rod has lectured on valuation matters for ALI-ABA, the American Society of Appraisers, CPA Associates International, Inc., state CPA Societies, Chambers of Commerce, Estate Planning Councils, Bar Associations, law firms, and private banking groups. He has also authored valuation articles, which have been accepted for publication in several professional journals.

Prior to forming Burkert Valuation Advisors, Rod was a partner in and the Management Advisory Services Department Head at Reinsel & Company LLP, a Reading, Pennsylvania certified public accounting and consulting firm, where he was in charge of the firm’s business valuation practice. He was also employed in the audit and tax departments of Price Waterhouse in their Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brussels, Belgium offices, served in the operational analysis, financial reporting, and marketing analysis groups of Carpenter Technology, a Reading-based Fortune 500 specialty steel manufacturer, and a merger and acquisition analyst for two large regional banking institutions, Meridian Bank in Reading and Goldome in Buffalo.

Rod received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Albright College and a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from Lehigh University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has earned the designations of Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified Valuation Analyst, which recognize the training, testing, and qualification in the field of business valuation and adherence to professional standards established by the AICPA and NACVA, respectively.

Rod and his wife, Amy, and their two dogs travel extensively in the United States and Canada in their second business venture, GoPetFriendly.com.