Ted Israel is a founding partner of Israel Frey Group, LLP (San Rafael, CA), a firm specializing in forensic and valuation services as well as ownership transition and succession planning. He was formerly with Eckhoff Accountancy Corporation, where he was in charge of forensic and valuation services. He provides business valuation services in estate and gift matters, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and marital dissolutions. 

He has testified for individual parties and as a court appointed expert in marital dissolutions on the character of assets, the valuation and character of businesses, owners' compensation and reimbursements. He is a regular speaker on business valuation and family law topics to accountants' and attorneys' groups and the author of a number of articles. 

Ted obtained a B. S. in Accounting from Golden Gate University. He is a member of CalCPA's Business Valuation Section (Chair 2004-2006), Family Law Section, CalCPA's Litigation Services Steering Committee and a member of the AICPA’s Business Valuation Committee (2014-2017). Ted lectured in the Department of Management Studies at Sonoma State University from 1982 to 1994 and has served as an instructor for the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.