David Gibson, MBA, CPA, CRC

daveg@vocecon.com

Telephone: (312) 781-9125
Fax: (312) 275-779
David Gibson

Dave Gibson is a Senior Analyst and the President of Vocational Economics, Inc.  Mr. Gibson provides expert testimony in the areas of lost earnings due to death, disability, or loss of employment, as well as commercial damages, business valuation, and the analysis of complex financial issues.  He has provided testimony in both state and federal courts in approximately twenty states.

Mr. Gibson has researched and written extensively on the impact of disability on earnings and worklife expectancy using several noted studies.  His published work includes The New Worklife Expectancy Tables and Daubert, Disability, and Worklife Expectancy Mr. Gibson's work with the relatively new American Community Survey has included detailed examination of the impact of physical and cognitive disabilities on earnings and employment.

Mr. Gibson has almost 30 years of experience as a financial executive with several major corporations.  He coordinates Vocational Economics' analysis methodology and expert testimony services and leads the company's development of new statistical and demographic data for use in its forensic databases. Mr. Gibson has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago, a Masters of Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Kentucky, and a Baccalaureate degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois in Urbana. Training in these diverse disciplines makes him uniquely qualified to assess the impact of disability on expected lifetime earnings.