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J. David Smith, ASA, CFA

David Smith is a Director in the Business Valuation and Corporate Advisory Services practices in Houston. He has over twenty years of financial consulting and financial services experience including over twelve years in the appraisal of businesses, business interests, and intangible assets for corporate mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, corporate tax, recapitalization, estate and gift tax, estate planning, employee stock ownership plan and litigation purposes.

David earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston. He also earned the Accredited Senior Appraiser designation in Business Valuation from the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. He is a Past President of the Houston Chapter of the ASA and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Houston Estate and Financial Forum. Prior to joining HSSK, he held positions with Bank One's Private Client Services group, Vaughan Nelson Scarborough & McCullough, ComstockCo. and Howard Frazier Barker Elliott.