Mark W. Miller-Villela is a Managing Director in the Philadelphia offices of Duff & Phelps, LLC. He has over 31 years of valuation experience, and leads the valuation of technology and info-com assets for the Machinery & Equipment service line.
Mark provides valuation expertise to clients primarily concerned with the value of real and personal property. He has organized, staffed and managed major valuation projects in numerous specialized industries, including mining and metals, railroad, industrial manufacturing, energy, paper manufacturing, automotive and heavy truck, commodity and specialty chemical, aerospace, telecommunications, data-communications, retail, restaurant, printing, packaging, silicon wafer fabrication, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals.
Mark has prepared valuations for use in many scenarios, such as allocations of purchase price, mergers and acquisitions, collateral financing, sale-leaseback, corporation planning, insurance, possible sale, lease portfolio management, asset lifing studies and fresh start accounting. His engagement highlights include significant experience valuing fixed and mobile communications assets worldwide, including the assets of major U.S. fixed and mobile carriers and multi-system operators and carriers with networks in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and elsewhere. Mark has also served as court appointed valuation expert to an International Arbitral Tribunal; and as an expert witness in the United States.
Mark joined Duff & Phelps in conjunction with the merger of Standard & Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting (CVC) with Duff & Phelps. Prior to his work at CVC, Mark was a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1998 to 2001 and an associate at Coopers & Lybrand from 1994 to 1998. Mark also was an appraiser at The Manufacturers’ Appraisal Company from 1985 to 1994.
Mark completed coursework at Drexel University and the Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non-Engineers course of the Teracom Training Institute. Mark holds an Accredited Senior Appraiser designation with the American Society of Appraisers; and is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International.