Jeffrey Ketchum is an executive recruiting and compensation expert witness with 30 years of executive level (C-level, VP, Director, Manager & Staff) experience with small businesses, middle market and Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Ketchum has personally completed over 220 engagements focused on executive recruiting, executive compensation, executive marketability, management appraisal and candidate assessment. He is the President of several executive search & compensation consulting firms, including Lordstone Corporation and Dieck Executive Search, Inc.

Mr. Ketchum is a graduate of Cornell University’s Advanced Program for Executive Search & Leadership Consulting and Wharton’s Executive Compensation: Strategies & Frameworks program. He is an AESC Certified Researcher/Associate (CRA) through the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, the official representative of the industry to the US Government and European Commission. Mr. Ketchum has global experience in North America, South & Central America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Ketchum is available for select expert witness engagements and consulting (non-testifying) matters.  These matters include opining on:

• Shareholder oppression & unreasonable, excessive compensation claims.  
• Mitigation of damages – Whether an individual used reasonable efforts to find equivalent employment.
• Executive earnings damages claims.
• The career path, opportunities and compensation that plaintiff would likely would have had if they were not injured.
• The long-term impact on an individuals career because of a wrongful employment termination.
• Whether a defendant was negligent in vetting candidates which contributed to damages.
• The qualifications of an executive candidate and reasonableness of their hiring.
• Alleged employer defamation and blacklisting.
• Executive recruiting contracts.

Mr. Ketchum’s industry experience includes: 

• Accounting
• Aerospace
• Agriculture
• Automation
• Automotive, Truck & Bus
• Banking
• Biotechnology
• Chemicals & Coatings
• Christian Ministries
• Clean Energy
• Colleges & Universities
• Construction
• Consumer Products
• Defense
• Digital Media
• Education
• Electronics
• Entertainment
• Faith Based Businesses
• Food Processing
• Forest Products
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Hospitals
• HVAC
• Industrial Machinery
• Insurance
• Law Firms/Legal Industry
• Life Sciences
• Manufacturing
• Maritime/Marine/Shipping
• Medical Device
• Metal Fabrication
• Off-road Powersports
• Oil & Gas
• Packaging
• Pharmaceuticals
• Plastics & Rubber
• Power Generation
• Printing & Publishing
• Private Equity
• Professional Associations
• Public Transit
• Pulp & Paper
• Retail
• Real Estate
• Scientific Research
• Software
• Sports & Recreation
• Technical Training
• Technology
• Telecommunications 
• Textiles
• Utilities