Our Team
Jeffrey A. Hutton, ASA
Partner- Arthur Lloyd LLC
Mr. Hutton is a Partner in our Fredericksburg, Texas office. He has over 35 years experience in asset valuation, asset management, financial advisory and solution-based consulting.
Mr. Hutton was a Senior Vice President in charge of operations for a start-up asset management company. The company specializes in surplus asset management including redeployment, broker and end-user dispositions as well as scrap. He headed up the company's account management, field operations, supplier reporting and contract administration functions.
Prior to that, he spent over 14 years with a Big 5 firm performing asset valuations, managing valuation and consulting projects and heading up the regional machinery and equipment valuation practice for the firm's Houston office. He has performed asset consulting projects in a number of different industries, including oil and gas refining, petrochemical manufacturing, pipelines and distribution, manufacturing, financial, transportation, communication, high-tech manufacturing, health care, printing, food processing and distribution and entertainment. He has prepared valuations for a variety of purposes including asset based financing, merger and acquisition accounting, financial reporting, business planning, ad valorem negotiation, insurance review, audit support, litigation support and S Corp. election. Mr. Hutton's clients have included numerous public and private companies.
Mr. Hutton is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers, in the discipline of Machinery and Technical Specialties. He is an active member of the ASA, serving as past Chair of the International Machinery and Technical Specialties Committee and as Past President of his local ASA Chapter. He is a contributing editor (income approach chapter) to the ASA textbook, Appraising Machinery and Equipment, and contributed to the development of the ASA's ME205 course, "Introduction to Income Approach, Discount Rate Development, and Complex Case Studies."
Education
Mr. Hutton received a Bachelor of Science degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Economics from the University of Houston.
James W. Townsend, ASA
Partner- Arthur Lloyd LLC
Mr. Townsend is a Partner in our Dallas, Texas office. He has over 25 years experience in asset valuation, asset management and solution-based consulting. He specializes in machinery and equipment and tangible asset analysis and valuation.
Mr. Townsend was a Director in the valuation and strategic account management groups for a start-up asset management company. The company specializes in surplus asset management including redeployment, broker and end-user transactions as well as scrap. He headed up the company's appraisal and valuation practice and was the strategic account manager for a number of the company's key clients.
Prior to that, he spent over 6 years with a Big 5 firm performing asset valuations and managing valuation and consulting projects. He has worked on machinery and equipment valuations and managed complex projects in a number of different industry areas including oil and gas transmission, distribution and refining, oil service and oil service manufacturing, transportation, chemical manufacturing, health care, communications, engineering and entertainment. He has prepared valuations for a variety of purposes including asset based financing, merger and acquisition accounting, financial reporting, business planning, ad valorem negotiation, insurance review, audit support, litigation support and S Corp. election. Mr. Townsend's clients have included numerous public and private companies.
Mr. Townsend is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in the American Society of Appraisers, in the discipline of Machinery and Technical Specialties.
Education
Mr. Townsend received a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the University of Illinois. He also received a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston.
