Team
- PARTNERS
- Jody Bland
- Erica Bramer
- Scott Dalrymple
- Todd Fries
- Stephen Jaquess
- Robert Manz
- Alexander Walther
- Laurie-Leigh White
- SENIOR ADVISORS
- Todd Goldwasser
- Jimmy Pat James
- Joseph Mason
- Z. Eric Stephens
- SENIOR PROFESSIONALS
- Ted Barlow
- Jason Billeck
- Spencer Brady
- Justin Burgess
- Jack Chen
- Emily Chiu
- Ola Fasoranti
- Chandler Harrison
- Katherine Hinz
- Kurt Huie
- Ramsey Kukalis
- Sam Makin
- Dave Matthiesen
- Myles McCormack
- Jeffrey R. Mills
- Justin Peden
- John Ray
- Afshin Sayani
- Britney Tran
- FINANCIAL ANALYSTS
- Alishah Ahmed
- Israa Ali
- Alec Bliemel
- Jake Brown
- Garrett Cooley
- Kyle Flick
- Gabriel Hicks
- Paige McCombs
- Mark Phillips
- Chris Salamah
- Dylan Saunders
- Shelby Stewart
- Robert Thomassian
- Kathryn Thompson
- Wes Waitkus
- Preston Werner
- Xiaolu Zhang
- OPERATIONS
- Marc Lohrisch
Alexander Walther
CPA*/CFF, CFE
Partner
Alexander Walther has over 15 years of professional services experience related to complex contract disputes, economic damages, bankruptcy adversarial proceedings, valuation disputes, and purchase price disputes, as well as investigations of alleged financial irregularities.
Mr. Walther specializes in working on complex litigation, forensic, and valuation services assignments nationally and internationally for businesses ranging from startup entities to Fortune 100 companies. Specifically, Mr. Walther provides financial forensic services, expert witness testimony, and analyses to assist in understanding and presenting complex issues to the trier-of-fact. He has worked extensively with counsel through all phases of the litigation process and has provided expert witness trial and deposition testimony in federal and state courts. In addition to litigation matters, Mr. Walther has performed special investigations for general counsel and audit committees concerned with ethics violations involving accounting irregularities. He has managed teams on special investigations in both the U.S. and in China.
Mr. Walther has presented at various American Institute of CPAs (“AICPA”) and Texas Society of CPAs (“TXCPA”) conferences on topics such as analyzing and preparing economic damages analyses, conducting Investigations, and analyzing accounting irregularities. In addition to speaking, Mr. Walther has written articles for the American Bar Association (“ABA”) and various state accounting societies on topics such as conducting international investigations, utilizing online document storage / sharing services, and working with counsel as an expert witness / consultant. Mr. Walther also co-authored the AICPA’s Forensic & Valuation Services Practice Aid on Calculating Lost Profits (February 2019).
Mr. Walther received a Master of Science in Accounting and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas Tech University, graduating summa cum laude. Prior to joining BVA Group, Mr. Walther served as a Senior Manager and market leader for Baker Tilly Virchow Krause’s Forensic, Litigation, and Valuation Services practice in Houston, Texas. Prior to his move to Houston, Mr. Walther was a Senior Manager for Baker Tilly’s practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Walther started his career with a regional accounting firm in Dallas, Texas where he provided various internal control consulting services for companies ranging from small privately held companies to Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Walther is a member of the AICPA, the TXCPA, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Houston Young Lawyers Association (“HYLA”). Mr. Walther is actively involved in various committees within these organizations including serving on the AICPA’s Forensic and Litigation Services Committee, as Chair of the AICPA’s Damages Task Force, on the TXCPA’s Business Valuations, Forensic and Litigation Services Committee, as a Director-at-Large on the TXCPA's Board of Directors, and as the Technology Coordinator for HYLA’s Adopt-an-Angel program. In 2014, Mr. Walther was awarded the Young Leaders Award by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (formerly the 40 Under 40 award). He was also selected as one of the 25 recipients of the 2016 AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services (“FVS”) Standing Ovation Recognition program. This program is designed to recognize professionals in the FVS practice area who are 40 or under, hold either the CFF and/or ABV credential, and have exhibited exemplary professional achievement.
*Although BVA employs CPAs, it is not a CPA firm.