Mark L. Zyla

Mark L. Zyla CPA, CFA is the Founder and Managing Director of Zyla Valuation Advisors, LLC an Atlanta, Georgia based valuation and dispute anlaysis consultancy firm. Mark’s practice is focused principally on valuations in financial reporting and other transactional matters. He also provides assistance in matters in litigation.

In addition, Mark serves on the faculty of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches FIN 294 Valuations for Consultants to graduate students.

Mark also has serves on the Advisory Council of M2M Capital, a technology firm which provides valuations of private companies for asset funds. Mark is formerly the Chairman of the Standards Review Board of the International Valuation Standards Council which provides valuation standards of various asset classes on a global basis. He has also served on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Forensic and Valuation Services Executive Committee. Mark is on the Advisory Council of the Master of Science in Finance program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mark received a BBA degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA degree with a concentration in Finance from Georgia State University. Mark also completed the Mergers and Acquisitions Program at the Aresty Institute of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Preparing to be a Corporate Director and the Valuation Programs at the Havard Business School.

Mark is author of Fair Value Measurement: Practical Guidance and Implementation 3rd ed. published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2020) and Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets ( along with Ervin L. Black) published by BNA Bloomberg (2018) as well as several other monographs published by BNA Bloomberg.