Dave Bookbinder, ASA, CEIV

Business Valuation Expert, Author, and Host of Behind The Numbers

Dave Bookbinder is a business valuation expert with more than 30 years of experience helping business owners, executives, attorneys, and other advisors understand what a business is worth and what drives its value. Based in the Philadelphia region, Dave serves business owners, executives, attorneys, and other advisors throughout the United States.

He specializes in business valuation, intangible asset valuation, intellectual property valuation, enterprise value, mergers and acquisitions, exit planning, and corporate finance. His valuation experience includes privately held and public companies across a wide range of industries and situations, including transactions, strategic planning, estate and gift tax matters, financial reporting, stock-based compensation, and regulatory requirements.

Dave holds the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation in Business Valuation and the Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuations (CEIV) credential. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Temple University and an MBA in Finance from Drexel University. Dave currently serves as Executive Director of Valuation Services at hfco.

What Drives Business Value?

After decades of valuing businesses and intangible assets, Dave became interested in a question that traditional financial statements don’t answer particularly well:

What is the economic value of the people who make a business work?

That question became the foundation for The NEW ROI®: Return On Individuals, Dave’s framework for examining the relationship between financial capital, intellectual capital, and human capital.

The NEW ROI explores how leadership, culture, employee engagement, organizational capabilities, and the people behind a business can influence performance, risk, and ultimately business value.

Dave’s philosophy is captured in one sentence:

“The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and the intellectual capital are managed by the human capital. You’d better get the human capital part right.”

Author

Dave is the author of three books:

A Valuation Toolbox for Business Owners and Their Advisors
A practical guide to understanding business value and the factors that drive it.

The NEW ROI: Return On Individuals
An exploration of the financial impact of human capital and why people should be viewed as assets rather than simply expenses.

The NEW ROI: Going Behind The Numbers
A deeper look at the operational, cultural, leadership, and human factors that can create or destroy business value.

Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder

Dave is the creator and host of Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder, a business podcast featuring conversations with CEOs, CFOs, entrepreneurs, authors, and other business leaders.

The podcast explores business valuation, finance, leadership, growth, culture, technology, and the forces that influence business and enterprise value. The show has reached listeners in more than 100 countries and has more than 300 episodes.

Through his valuation practice, books, podcast, and writing, Dave examines both sides of the value equation: the numbers that appear on a company’s financial statements and the people and intangible assets behind those numbers.

That is the idea behind The NEW ROI.