Speakers

Brian Pitkin is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Telecom, Media & Technology (“TMT”) practice and Co-leader of the TMT Dispute Advisory group providing expert testimony on telecommunications and transactions. Mr. Pitkin’s telecommunications expertise is founded on decades of experience serving as an industry executive and leading engagements in the areas of business strategy, transactions and transformation.

Mr. Pitkin works extensively on matters across the TMT industries, including telecommunications and integrated communications platforms, media content, distribution and transportation systems. His telecommunications experience spans wireline (copper, coaxial, fiber, hybrid) and wireless (fixed, mobile) operations. Whether in the context of disputes or strategy, he focuses on assisting clients in addressing risk and uncertainty — financial, legal, operational and regulatory. He uses data-driven analytics and geospatial modeling, combined with industry insight on issues ranging from competition, compliance, disputes, negotiations, performance and synergies.

Mr. Pitkin leads FTI Consulting’s pre-securitization planning and valuation work, leveraging a team of data analysts, economists, engineers, financial analysts, geospatial analysts and statisticians to understand the competitive and sociodemographic dynamics impacting market sizing, fair-share/penetration and performance. He also oversees the Agreed-Upon Procedures, including backup manager fee assessment, and serves as the team’s primary telecommunications industry cold backup manager, participating in quarterly and annual meetings to evaluate changes in the securitization over time.

In the telecommunications disputes arena, Mr. Pitkin has specific expertise in compliance and investigations, contract terms and conditions, cost-of-service and cost-based pricing in multiproduct firms, as well as damages, fraud, industry practices, intercarrier compensation, interconnection, modeling methodologies, policy, taxes and surcharges and valuation. Additionally, Mr. Pitkin has assisted companies from across the globe understand, navigate and shape changes in regulatory regimes and associated structures. During his 25 years as a telecommunications expert witness, Mr. Pitkin has testified in more than 70 proceedings, including in U.S. federal court, arbitrations, the Federal Communications Commission and more than 25 states’ public utility commissions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Pitkin worked as a management consultant focused on acquisitions, intercarrier relations and strategic initiatives. In industry, he served as Senior Vice President of WorldNet Telecommunications, Inc., where he led the business analysis, finance, intercarrier relations, marketing, product development, regulatory and sales departments.