Committee : Daniel L. McConaughy

Dr. Daniel L. McConaughy, 48, joined Halter USX China Index's Selection Committee in October 2003, bringing extensive corporate finance and investment consulting and research experience.

Dr. McConaughy currently is an Associate Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Economics at California State University Northridge. He has published more than 20 articles in the Finance area and is coauthor of a book, Training that Works: Lessons from California's Employment Training Panel Program. His published research includes performance measurement, stock index construction, family business, valuation, IPOs, venture capital, M&A and executive compensation.

Dr. McConaughy is the Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management, the journal of the International Council for Small Business.

Dr. McConaughy is a Partner at Grobstein, Horwath & Company LLP, a regional, full service accounting firm in Los Angeles, which belongs to Horwath International, one of the largest global professional service organizations in the world with 400 offices in 90 countries. He leads the firm's Valuation practice and provides a variety of corporate finance related services. He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Business Valuation.

Dr. McConaughy is also actively involved with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center at the Claremont School of Theology. He is internationally recognized for his discovery of an extremely ancient Syriac manuscript in Egypt that serves as a unique witness to the text of the New Testament. In his spare time, he rides his Colnago racing bicycle and builds astronomical telescopes and reads Greek and Syriac.

Dr. McConaughy has two PhD degrees: He received his PhD in Finance at the University of Cincinnati and his PhD and MA degrees in Syriac and Greek Studies at the University of Chicago, where he was the first individual to earn MA or PhD degrees on the Committee for the Ancient Mediterranean World. He earned his BS in Business Administration at the College of Charleston, where he also studied ancient Greek.