Professor Eric Sussman is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Real Estate at the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management. A licensed CPA in California, he received his M.B.A. with honors from Stanford University.Professor Sussman is the winner of 13 Teaching Excellence Awards, voted on by Anderson's M.B.A. students, the Citibank Teaching Award, and the Neidorf "Decade" Teaching Award. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek recognized him as one of the 10 Most Popular Profs at Top Business Schools. A consultant for national and global firms, Professor Sussman is a frequent public lecturer on topics in finance and accounting, and has advised numerous M.B.A. field study teams. He is the creator of Insight FSA, an analytical software tool that evaluates and reports on the accounting and corporate reporting risk for public companies. He also serves as President of Amber Capital, Inc.; Manager of Fountain Management, LLC, and Clear Capital, LLC; Managing Partner of Sequoia Real Estate Partners, LLC, and the Pacific Value Opportunities Funds; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Causeway Capital Management's group of funds; and sits on the Board of Directors of Pacific Charter School Development and Bentley Forbes Group, LLC.