Steven D. Popell is President of Popell, Incorporated, a San Francisco Bay Area general management consulting firm founded in 1970, and specializing in business valuation and exit strategies. He has been qualified as an expert in business valuation since 1974, and has provided expert testimony in this field for the past 35 years.
Mr. Popell is the author of BIG PROFITSFrom Small Companies, published in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Spain, and the chief author of Computer Time Sharing - Dynamic Information Handling for Business, published in the U.S., France and Japan. He has published more than two dozen articles in leading professional journals, including the Harvard Business Review (reprinted in its Executive Book Series) and The Business Journal (San Jose and Silicon Valley.)
Mr. Popell has been awarded the designation of Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants USA, and is the founder and Past Chair of the College of Certified Management Consultants of the Institute of Management Consultants.
He pioneered the use of neutral valuation of businesses and professional firms in the divorce context in the early 1980s, and has published extensively on this and related subjects, including: "Neutral Business Valuation In the Context of a Collaborative Divorce", The Collaborative Review, Spring 2003 and “Reasonable Compensation for the Sole Practitioner”, Family Law News, (official publication of the State Bar of California, Family Law Section) Winter, 1995.
Mr. Popell is a member of three Collaborative Practice groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2007, he received a Collaborative Practice California Eureka Award for his contributions to Collaborative Practice in this state. He received an MBA from Harvard University.
