Neil Paschall is a managing director of The McLean Group’s West Coast office in Sacramento, California. His thirty plus year career includes public accounting with a Big 4 firm, serving as a corporate financial executive for a Fortune 500 company where he was responsible for acquisition due diligence and valuation, and serving as Chief Executive Officer of a Business Valuation and Investment Banking firm. He is a widely known speaker and author on Acquisition Due Diligence, Corporate Valuation and Transaction Analysis, Enhancing the Value of Your Business, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Mr. Paschall is a graduate of the Advanced Negotiation Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University in International Business Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant/Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst, and a Certified Forensic Financial Analyst. He serves on the Practice Standards Committee of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, is an elected member of the Litigation Forensics Board which sets practice standards for litigation consulting practitioners, and sits on the Editorial Board of the national magazine The Value Examiner.