Brian Gordon is a principal analyst with Applied Analysis. Prior to joining the Applied Analysis team, Brian developed his financial advisory, business consulting, accounting and reporting skills as a Audit and Business Advisory Manager with Arthur Andersen LLP (now Andersen).

Brian Gordon is a principal with Applied Analysis. His areas of expertise include market analysis, financial advisory services, business consulting, accounting, financial reporting, and economic modeling. Gordon attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he graduated with honors, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting. Following his graduation, Gordon took a position with Arthur Andersen in Las Vegas and also performed a rotation in Andersen's Silicon Valley office.

Some of the projects he has worked on include:

• Local Market Analyses: Gordon has performed numerous highest and best use analyses, market feasibility studies and market analyses for various developers and commercial real estate firms. A sampling of his recent projects include, but is not limited to:

• Editor for Las Vegas Quarterly Market Reports covering
• the office, industrial and retail markets;
• Principal author of luxury residential market analyses;
• Commercial retail market supply-demand analyses; and
• Development of the Las Vegas Quarterly Multi-family
• and Vacant Land Market Reports.

• Chief Financial Officer Responsibilities: Gordon performs an outsourced chief financial officer role for a high-growth private enterprise. His responsibilities include periodic financial reporting requirements, debt financing transactions and negotiations, equity financing transactions, developing econometric models for budgeting and planning purposes, as well as, senior management responsibilities.

• Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s Five-year Financial Projections: In connection with the LVCVA’s five-year vision plan, Gordon assisted in the development of financial projections from both a revenue and expenditure standpoint. The model included revenue projections driven by forecasts of the hotel-tourism industry, as a significant portion of the LVCVA’s revenue is derived from hotel room taxes.

• Applied Analysis Gaming Index: Gordon developed the Applied Analysis Gaming Index (AAGI) to meet the needs of the firm’s clients and to provide insight to the gaming sector of our local economy. Applied Analysis updates over 300 market variables and economic indicators on a monthly basis. One set of those indicators is the stock prices and market capitalization for publicly traded, gaming-related enterprises. Frequently used by news publications to report the health of the gaming industry, the gaming index provides some insight into the gaming sector of the local economy.

Gordon is also a member of many professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants. He also is a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada, a non-profit agency. Gordon has had columns published in the In Business Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Business Press. In addition, Gordon was recently named one of the Top Businesspeople Under 40 by In Business Las Vegas and featured in Who’s Who in Southern Nevada 2003.