Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance

Aswath Damodaran is Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business, New York University. Before coming to Stern, he also lectured in Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Damodaran received a B.A. in Accounting from Madras University and a M.S. in Management from the Indian Institute of Management. He earned an MBA (1981) and then PhD (1985), both in Finance, from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Professor Damodaran's contributions to the field of Finance have been recognized many times over. He has been the recipient of Giblin, Glucksman, and Heyman Fellowships, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, and the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance.

His skill and enthusiasm in the classroom garnered him the Schools of Business Excellence in Teaching Award in 1988, and the Distinguished Teaching award from NYU in 1990. His student accolades are no less impressive: he has been voted "Professor of the Year" by the graduating MBA class five times during his career at NYU.

In addition to myriad publications in academic journals, Professor Damodaran is the author of several highly-regarded and widely-used academic texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management.

Professor Damodaran currently teaches Corporate Finance and Equity Instruments & Markets. His research interests include Information and Prices, Real Estate, and Valuation.

Kenneth Woo

Recently promoted to the role of Regional Research Manager, Kenneth is responsible for leading the North American research group in their work displaying trends and financial information relating to transactions in the M&A marketplace. His background began as a Research Analyst at FactSet Mergerstat where he focused on transactions in the U.S. region. He was shortly promoted to the role of Senior Research Analyst, at which he served in a supervisory role in the creation and standardization of global M&A research in 2003. In addition, Kenneth conducted a study which illustrated control premiums paid for public companies across leading industries. In 2005, Kenneth took an active role in the development of content focusing on transactions in the private equity marketplace.

Kenneth Woo received his B.A. in Business Administration with an emphasis in the field of finance from Loyola Marymount University, graduating with honors.

Anna Berthelius

Anna Berthelius has worked as a European Mergers and Acquisitions Research Analyst at FactSet Mergerstat since 2003. She specializes in analyzing mergers and acquisitions in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Greece. In addition, she provides quantitative trend analysis on the European M&A market for FactSet Mergerstat's publication Flashwire Monthly, which reaches a wide audience of investment bankers, management consultants, M&A lawyers, and business valuations professionals in the U.S. and abroad.

Since December 2004, Anna has been in charge of producing the quantitative research reports contained in the quarterly FactSet Mergerstat Control Premium publication.

Anna received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of San Francisco's McLaren School of Business and Management in 2003.