Jay Sickler

Principal

Mar 6

Written By Rachel Rosenthal

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jsickler@cogencegroup.com

503-467-7901

“Jay and his team did an excellent job of quantifying our client’s economic damages and persuasively presenting those findings to the jury in our hard-fought federal court matter. Jay continued to support us during the complex and contentious trial, including meeting with us on weekends and late at night. Jay’s economic modeling was sound, accurate, based on generally accepted methodology, and amply supported by assumptions provided by other experts, resulting in a jury verdict of $93.6 million.”

— Jeffrey Eden, Retired Attorney

CPA, CFF, ABV, ASA
Principal

Not opposed to the challenge – not in his personal life, not in professional practice, and not in the courtroom.

Jay is a Principal and Founder of Cogence Group, P.C. Working on a headline commercial litigation case with EY Sydney in 1990 ignited his desire to specialize in litigation support services. He took on the challenge of moving back to his home town and becoming the first economic damages expert to create a successful, sustainable, and respected litigation and business valuation services practice in Portland.

Before Cogence Group, Jay spent 12 years as a shareholder in the CPA firm Thompson, Wiest & Sickler, P.C. and nine years before that working for the “Big 4” international accounting firms of Deloitte and EY, in Portland and Sydney, Australia. He has testified nearly 190 times as an expert witness in since 1994, in Federal court, State court, and private arbitrations. Jay earned a BS degree in finance and accounting from Oregon State University. He is a and is also and through the, and an

For fun, Jay enjoys traveling the world with his wife of 40+ years. He also loves to cook, work-out, vacation in Italy and warm tropical locales, sharpen his mixologist skills, and drink fine wines from around the world.

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