Timothy Pecaro

Tim Pecaro is a principal and founder of the firm of Bond & Pecaro, Inc., a Washington, DC-based consulting firm specializing in valuations, strategic planning, acquisition analysis, asset appraisals, and related financial services for the media, communications, technology, energy, automotive, government, and healthcare industries. Before the formation of Bond & Pecaro, Inc. in 1986, Tim was a Vice President with Frazier, Gross & Kadlec, Inc. Prior to this, he was employed in the programming department at NBC in Chicago.

 

Tim has actively participated in the development, research, and preparation of appraisal reports for owners of radio, television, cable, newspaper, outdoor, common carrier, satellite, telecommunications, tower, new media, programming, Internet, technology, energy, automotive, and healthcare properties. He has also prepared special research reports for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).

 

Tim has been retained to appraise over 4,000 companies. He has also been retained to provide special market studies and individual research projects for the management of media, telecommunications, technology, and energy properties and related industries. He is the past Vice Chairman of the Media Financial Management Association (MFM) and a past member of the Strategic Planning Committee. Tim was the Co-Chair of the association’s 2004 and 2005 annual conferences, past Chairman of the Tax and New Media Committees, and a current member of the Interactive & Digital Media, Tax, and Membership Committees. Mr. Pecaro was also a member of the NAB Tax Advisory Panel, the MFM Task Force on media like-kind exchanges, and the NCTA Working Group on SFAS 157 and SFAS 141(r). He is an industry co-Editor and contributing author of Understanding Broadcast & Cable Finance from Focal Press.

 

Mr. Pecaro has testified as an expert witness in connection with media and telecommunications valuation matters before federal, state, and local courts; the FCC; and the Joint Committee on Taxation. He has also spoken on media and technology financial issues at the annual conferences of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Media Financial Management Association, the National Cable Television Association, the Broadband Tax Institute, the International Business Forum, the Strategic Research Institute, and Telocator. Additionally, Tim has been a guest lecturer at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.