Expert witness & litigation support services

• Economic loss. My research quantifies lost market share, sales and profits.
• Intellectual property. Evaluate claims and value of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
• Distributors, dealers and manufacturers representatives. Evaluate claims, customary practice and economic loss.
• Marketing research. Define market size, share, growth and key trends. Competitive sales, share & strategy. Custom and practice in vertical markets. Prices and practices.
• Marketing and sales effectiveness. Evaluate claims on the impact to market share, sales, profits and other objectives

Experience includes depositions and testimony at trial.

Don Smith
Don Smith is the President of the American Consulting Group, Inc. He is a nationally known marketing consultant, business trainer and public speaker.

His consulting specialties include:

• Define, evaluate and implement new product/business opportunities.

• Define and implement programs to increase market share, sales and profits of the base business.

• Evaluate sales channel performance and define/implement upgrade programs.

Mr. Smith’s clients include AT&T, Hayward, Hoechst-Roussel, Ingersoll-Rand, ITT, Lutron, Lockheed-Martin, Pittsburgh-Corning, NYNEX, Panama Canal, Phone-Poulenc, Rexam, Signal, SKF, Toshiba, West and US Borax.

His business training & public speaking experience includes:

• Cornell's Graduate School of Business. Voted as top ten faculty by students. Credited semester courses for Marketing and Business Strategy. Marketing segments in Executive Development Program and the USSR Union of Managers Program.

• American Management Association. One of their best course leaders; average 3.80+ on 4.00 scale. Developer and course leader for seminars on Developing New Products, Managing the Sales Distribution Network and Marketing & Product Management.

• University of North Carolina's Executive Program. One of the few non-UNC professors in their program. Developed and taught a Business-to-Business Marketing program.

• University of Wisconsin and Milwaukee School of Engineering. Developed and taught credited semester programs in Marketing Research and Business Statistics.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.