Arcady Zaydenverg, has over 25 years of experience in both public and private accounting.  As a forensic accountant, Mr. Zaydenverg focuses on providing litigation support services in cases involving fraudulent financial reporting.   Mr. Zaydenverg is also experienced in providing other forensic accounting, management consulting and advisory services.

Mr. Zaydenverg possesses extensive knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), SEC regulations, and auditing standards for public and private companies. 

During the course of his career, Mr. Zaydenverg worked on many high profile securities litigations.  Mr. Zaydenverg assisted attorneys at private law firms as well as at the SEC and the PCAOB in dealing with complex financial accounting and reporting matters, including interpretation and application of accounting and auditing standards.

Prior to founding Arcadia Consulting, Mr. Zaydenverg was a Director in the litigation and advisory services practice at Marks Paneth (currently CBIZ Marks Paneth), a nationally ranked  public accounting firm, where he worked for 16 years.   Before making a transition into litigation and advisory services, Mr. Zaydenverg was a Group Financial Reporting Manager at WPP Group, a global advertising and public relations company.  Mr. Zaydenverg began his career in public accounting with Smart & Associates, a premier Philadelphia accounting and business advisory firm, where he led audit, review, compilation, and consulting engagements in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, high-tech, insurance, service, and not-for-profit. 

Mr. Zaydenverg holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).  

John Barron has over 40 years of experience in the practice of public accounting with extensive experience in the application of US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), AICPA generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS), and PCAOB standards. 

Mr. Barron has provided expert testimony in administrative proceedings brought by the enforcement divisions of the SEC and the PCAOB and  matters in U.S. District Courts covering a wide range of areas including internal controls, related party transactions, consolidation and variable interest entities, asset impairment and valuation allowances, derivative instruments, auditor independence, management representations to third parties, and nonfinancial statement disclosures (MD&A).   

In 2019, Mr. Barron testified in a class action case brought against management and the auditors of Vereit (formerly, American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.) resulting in a settlement of approximately $1 billion.  In 2011, Mr. Barron testified in a case brought against management and the auditors of Fannie Mae related to an $11 billion restatement of Fannie Mae’s financial statements, characterized by then SEC Chairman Christopher Cox as likely to be “one of the largest restatements in American corporate history.”

Mr. Barron spent twenty-two years with with Deloitte, including twelve years as an Audit Partner in the firm’s Atlanta and New York offices, and was designated as a financial instruments specialist by the firm.

Prior to joining Arcadia Consulting, Mr. Barron was Director of Audit Quality Control at Frost, PLLC.  At Frost, Mr. Barron was responsible for setting quality control policies, performing reviews of audit and other attest engagements, overseeing quality control inspections, coordinating AICPA Peer Reviews and PCAOB inspections, providing technical support to engagement teams, and coordinating internal accounting and audit training.

From 2003 to 2016, Mr. Barron was a Director in the litigation and business advisory services practice at Marks Paneth (currently CBIZ Marks Paneth) in New York.

Mr. Barron also spent several years as an Adjunct Professor of accounting and auditing at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York.

Mr. Barron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.