Quid Valorem: "What (is the) Value?"
Valuation Leadership
- The Business Valuation Challenge, sponsored by the American Society of Appraisers and hosted by Georgia State University
- Recruited sponsors and experienced professional mentors to restart the BV Challenge in 2024 after 5 years of dormancy
- Edited redacted case study materials
- Created initial mentor and student team training materials
- Business Valuation Resource Panel of The Appraisal Foundation
- Former (2024) Chair
- Assistant editor for The Art of Valuations book (2023)
- Business Valuation Brief: Professional Interactions Unique to Fair Value for Financial Reporting
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- Member of the BV Education Task Force
- Helping develop BV content for practitioners and college students
- Active member of and contributor to the American Society of Appraisers
- ASA Atlanta chapter president, 2025-2026
- Associate Editor (and former Editor) of Business Valuation Review, its peer-reviewed journal for valuations of investment interests
- Former instructor of its Principles of Valuation courses (BV202), having helped to update one of the courses (BV203)
- Former member of its Investment Policy Committee, helping oversee the long-term investment portfolio of the Business Valuation discipline
Education and Certifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business Administration, University of Florida
- UF South Florida MBA Program Teaching Assistant: Global Strategic Management; Corporate Finance; Venture Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions
- Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuations, American Society of Appraisers
- Accredited Valuations Analyst (inactive), National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts
- CFA charterholder, CFA Institute
- CAIA charterholder, Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts Association (CAIA Association)
Research
Having earned a PhD in finance and strategic management (from the public university ranked #1 in 2023 by the Wall Street Journal), I conduct and publish academically rigorous research related to the analysis and valuation of investment interests. Research examples include:
- Finding that CEOs in venture capital-backed IPO firms pay themselves more once their governance changes fundamentally (important to keep in mind when analyzing peer companies)
- Jarosiewicz, V. E. (2019). CEO Compensation after Harvester Director Departure. Quarterly Journal of Finance, 9(01), 1940004. Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3042780.
- Re-examining the popular (but circular) logic that the executives of different companies have different “styles” that can be discerned solely from financial metrics, and finding that it is not supported by the evidence (important to keep in mind when appraisal reports point to financial metrics as evidence of managerial skill)
- Jarosiewicz, V. E., & Ross, D. G. (2023). Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies. Strategic Management Journal, 44(3), 858-886. Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933162.
Academic Teaching: Finance Professor
- Georgia State University – developed and taught AI-centric valuation courses:
- FI 4350 Introduction to Business Valuation
- FI 4360 Advanced Topics in Business Valuation
- College For Financial Planning
- Bryant University
- University of Missouri – Columbia
Giving Back to the Profession
- Reviewer, Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
- Reviewer, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
- Active member of and volunteer for CFA Institute
- CFA Institute Research Challenge, volunteer, 2025-present, CFA Atlanta society / Georgia State University
- CFA Program Exam Grading Volunteer, 2012-2025
- CFA Institute Research Challenge, volunteer Investment Report grader, 2022, CFA Washington DC society
- CFA Digest Abstractor, 2012-2019
- 2009 CFA Institute Annual Conference Planning Committee Co-Chair
- CFA Society of Orlando Director, 2006-2010, and Membership Chair, 2006-2008