JONATHAN J. TANG, ASA BV-IA, CFA
jtang@empireval.com
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6115, New York, NY 1018
Jon Tang is a Managing Director in the Manhattan office of Empire Valuation Consultants. Jon has over a dozen years of business valuation experience performing valuations for financial reporting, gift and estate tax, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes, and other purposes. He specializes in intangible assets, complex securities, and early stage companies. Jon has managed over 600 engagements for financial reporting purposes, including Fair Value Measurements (ASC 820), Business Combination (ASC 805), Stock Compensation (ASC 718/IRC 409(a)), and impairment testing related to Intangible – Goodwill and Others (ASC 350) and Property, Plant and Equipment (ASC 360). He has also performed numerous valuations for tax reporting, acquisition and divestiture, transfer pricing, fairness opinions, ESOPs, estate planning and general corporate planning purposes.
Jon holds the Accredited Senior Appraiser designation from the American Society of Appraisers, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder. Prior to joining Empire, Jon was a senior engineer in the telecommunication industry, where he designed and tested Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems on a Chip (SoC) for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications.
Professional Designations
- ASA BV-IA – Accredited Senior Appraiser specializing in Business Valuation and Intangible Assets
- CFA – Chartered Financial Analyst issued by the CFA Institute
Professional Associations
- ASA – American Society of Appraisers
- The CFA Society
- NYSSCPA – New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
Education
- M.B.A. – New York University, Finance and Strategy, w/ distinction 2007
- M.S. – Georgia Institute of Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 1999
- B.S. – St. Cloud State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, summa cum laude, 1998
Employment
- Managing Director, Empire Valuation Consultants, LLC, 2007 – Present
- Senior Engineer, Conexant Systems, Inc., 2004 – 2006
- Member of Technical Staff, Agere Systems/Lucent Technology, 2000 – 2004
Professional Activities (Valuation)
- Immediate Past President and Board Member of the New York City Chapter of ASA
- Member of the Business Valuation Committee of NYSSCPA
- Member of the Appraisal Issues Task Force
- Assisted with The Appraisal Foundation^s Working Group #4 on Contingent Considerations
Presentations/Webinars
- Tang, Jonathan, Mike Szymanski, Peter Tan, Josette Ferrer, and Randy Heng Audit Review Process – View from the Independents. Prepared for ASA 2019 Fair Value Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 2019
- Tang, Jonathan and William Johnston A Deep Dive into Contingent Consideration. Presented at 2019 Praxity FLVS Conference, Phoenix, AZ, November 11, 2019
- Tang, Jonathan Business Valuation Reports 101. Presented at Monmouth/Ocean County NJCPA Meeting, October 22, 2019
- Tang, Jonathan Where’s the Tech? The Value of Technology and Other Intangible Assets. Presented at Global Legal ConfEx, New York, NY, October 17, 2019
- Tang, Jonathan and Scott Nammacher Issues in Contingent Consideration. Presented at 2018 Valuation Study Group, Palm Desert, CA, February 9, 2018
- Tang, Jonathan A Practical Guide to Valuing Contingent Consideration. Webinar, BVR, January 23, 2018
- Tang, Jonathan and William Johnston A “Practical” Guide to Valuing Contingent Consideration. Presented at 2017 Praxity FLVS Conference, Phoenix, AZ, November 8, 2017
- Tang, Jonathan Valuation of Pharma/Biotech IP. Presented at 25th SAPA Annual Conference, Somerset, NJ, September 30, 2017
- Tang, Jonathan, Jamie Lynn Walter, and Rajan Chari Consistent & Transparent Valuation of Unicorns. Webinar, Voltaire Advisors, March 23, 2017
- Tang, Jonathan and Jim Hitchner Quantitative DLOM Models: A Comparison. Presented at ASA 2015 Advanced Business Valuation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 20, 2015
- Tang, Jonathan ASC 718/IRC 409A Cheap Stock Valuation. Presented at ASA NYC Chapter Meeting, New York, NY, October 9, 2013
- Tang, Jonathan and Sean Dineen Quantitative DLOM Methodologies.Presented at ASA Current Topics in Business Valuation, New York, NY, May 7, 2012
Professional Activities (Others)
- Committee Member of the Greater New Jersey Estate Planning Council
- Committee Member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
- Member of Financial Executives International (FEI)
- Member of Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG)
- Member of Beta Gamma Sigma