College of Business Administration
Advisory Council Member

Don Wiggins is president of Business Valuation, Inc., a Jacksonville firm specializing in business valuations and Heritage Capital Group, a firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions of middle market companies. He has been with both companies since 1989. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Finance at the University of North Florida, retiring in 2000. Don has wide-ranging academic and consulting experience in business valuation, corporate finance, accounting, mergers and acquisitions, and computer-based financial modeling. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Georgia Southern University and a D.B.A. from Louisiana Tech University in 1976. He is a member of the American Society of Appraisers, the Financial Executives Institute, Association for Corporate Growth, the AICPA and the Florida Institute of CPAs. He has published in such journals as Valuation, Business Valuation Review, Financial Analysts Journal, and Management Accounting.

Before coming to Jacksonville, Don taught at Clemson University for nine years and has also conducted numerous executive development and training programs for business, government, the health care industry, and professional associations. He has conducted more than 1,000 valuations of closely held companies and has consulted with large companies such as Anheuser-Busch, CSX, Union Carbide, Martin Marietta, Whirlpool, Goodyear, and Schlumberger, several hundred small and medium sized companies in the U.S., Europe, China, Mexico, Central America, and South America, and many financial institutions and local governments. Don has served as an expert witness in many cases involving valuation of closely held businesses and limited partnerships, portfolio analysis, and estimation of economic damages.

He holds the professional designations of ASA, CPA, CVA/ABV, CEPA and is a Licensed Real Estate Broker and Registered Securities Principal. Don has testified in state and federal court and in arbitration hearings of FINRA (NASD), NYSE, and AAA.