The American Society of Appraisers (ASA) announced the results of its “Rising Stars” award winners. This award honors the brightest young valuation professionals who have demonstrated success throughout the fiscal year, ASA announced on its website.
Six individuals were so honored for 2018 and were selected by the Rising Stars Committee from more than 30 entries nominated by fellow valuation professionals. These individuals will receive free registration to ASA’s Joint 2018 Advanced Business Valuation and International Appraisers Conference and will be recognized at the Membership Meeting and Awards Luncheon.
This year’s recipients are:
Nicolas Ballian is a director in the São Paulo, Brazil, office and is part of the Valuation Advisory Services practice. Ballian has more than 10 years of valuation experience across a wide range of industries, advising public and private companies, private equity and management teams. He has advised on various transaction types, including valuations for financial reporting both in IFRS and USGAAP, tax and transaction purposes.
Nicholas Janiga is a partner at HealthCare Appraisers in Denver. He has been providing his clients analysis and consultation in business valuation, litigation support, intellectual property and healthcare provider compensation relationships since 2006. Janiga is part of ASA’s Denver Chapter and has been an ASA member for more than seven years. He has contributed to the chapter by offering training sessions and advocating the ASA designation.
Fawn Romero performs professional valuations of business interests for federal estate and gift tax purposes, litigation support and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). She has authored several Valuation Case E-Flash issues for the Financial Consulting Group; the leading organization of business valuation and financial consulting firms in the U.S. Romero is part of ASA’s Denver Chapter and has been an ASA member for more than 11 years.
Timothy Roy provides clients with quality M&E appraisals. Roy is part of ASA’s Indiana Chapter and has been an ASA member for more than five years. He contributed to the chapter by redesigning and launching its website and managing the chapter’s communications efforts.
Megan Salehli specializes in valuation and economic damages and provides consulting services in a variety of matters requiring the investigation and evaluation of financial and economic data and determination of value. Salehli is part of ASA’s Philadelphia Chapter and has been an ASA member for more than eight years. She contributed to the chapter by arranging speakers and managing the transition of the chapters banking and file system.
Shane Weber is a state-certified residential real estate appraiser at Missouri Property Appraisal. In addition to obtaining his IFA designation and now his ASA designation, Weber has been active in the development of presentations dealing with the use of appraisal analytics and Excel applications for supporting market adjustments. He and other contributors hope to incorporate these presentations into a new ASA course offering for continuing education credits.