Tom Copeland

Tom Copeland is the Director of Corporate Finance at Monitor Company, where he leads the Finance Practice and is a global authority on valuation. Tom has advised over 200 companies in 34 countries, managing cases that range from restructuring companies to developing hedging programs for commodity and FX risks to valuing financial institutions. Before joining Monitor, Tom was Director of Corporate Financial Services at McKinsey & Company (1987–1998) and was a tenured professor of finance at the University of California in Los Angeles (1973-1987). There, he served as chairman of the Finance Department and Vice Chairman of the Graduate School of Management. Tom is a co-author with J. Fred Weston of Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, a widely-used advanced-level finance text, and of Managerial Finance, an intermediate-level corporate finance text. With Tim Koller and Jack Murrin, he co-wrote the best-selling book Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, which shows how top management can take an action-oriented approach to enhancing shareholder value, and instructs staff on the methodology for conducting valuations. His latest book, Real Options: A Practitioner's Guide, co-authored with Vladimir Antikarov, was published in March 2001.