Dr. Victor Jarosiewicz, ASA, CFA, CAIA (who asks his students to address him as “Dr. J,” though he bears no resemblance to NBA Hall of Famer Julius Erving), is a visiting professor of practice in finance at Georgia State University, where he is helping restart the Business Valuation Challenge (valuationchallenge.org). 

Dr. Jarosiewicz is a former editor of the American Society of Appraisers’ Business Valuation Review and is the chair of The Appraisal Foundation’s Business Valuation Resource Panel for 2024. He earned his AVA designation in 2001 (currently inactive), his CFA charter in 2003, his ASA-BV designation in 2007, his Ph.D. in finance and strategic management from the University of Florida in 2017, his CAIA charter in 2019, and is currently completing the requirements for his CFP designation. His research on venture capitalists on boards of directors and on executive management has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Finance and the Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Jarosiewicz has taught ASA BV202, helped rewrite ASA BV203N, and has taught “Fundamentals of Financial Management,” “Financial Markets and Institutions,” “Investments,” “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation,” and “Economics for Financial Analysis” and helped develop a new course, “Investing Using ETFs.”