Mr. MacNamara is a Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Financial
Advisory Services business. He specializes in valuing illiquid equity, debt,
and derivative investments, analyzing transactions in connection with fairness
and solvency opinions, and building advanced valuation models for complex
investments, including structured products, derivative investments, and
auction-rate securities. He has significant experience with modeling and
computer programming techniques, including Intex, Monte Carlo simulations,
C/C++, R, and Perl. Mr. MacNamara is based in the firm’s New York office.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. MacNamara was a
Summer Associate at FMV Opinions, a Los Angeles-based valuation firm. Earlier,
he was an Associate at SJ Associates, an accounting firm in New York. He has
co-authored articles on complex financial topics that have been published in
the CPA Journal, Financier Worldwide, and the Futures &
Derivatives Law Report. He also co-authored a chapter in a recently
published textbook Financial Engineering: The Evolution of a Profession.
Mr. MacNamara earned a B.S. in Computer Science from
the University at Albany, State University of New York, with Dean’s List and
Presidential Scholar distinctions. He graduated with distinction and Beta Gamma
Sigma from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University,
where he earned an MBA with specializations in Finance and Accounting. He
received the Dean’s Award and the Marcus Nadler Money Marketeers Award and was
a Glucksman Fellow, having published a paper on portfolio risk measurement in
the finance department’s working paper series. He was also a co-portfolio
manager for the MPSIF Value Fund, a student-run endowment fund, and was
responsible for the fund’s portfolio analytics function. He is a CFA
charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of
Security Analysts.