Key Professional Profile -	Jack Beckwith, ASA

Professional Qualifications

Jack Beckwith’s area of expertise is primarily machinery & equipment/personal property. However, he has valued buildings and improvements for insurance purposes. In addition to his valuation experience, Mr. Beckwith has been an expert witness in the United States Bankruptcy Court and in various counties for personal property ad valorem tax litigation.

Though he is based in Texas, Mr. Beckwith has performed and supervised valuations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.

Mr. Beckwith has broad experience in performing valuations and consulting projects for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to the following:

• Tax Appeal
• Insurance
• Purchase price allocation
• Asset-based lending
• Financial and tax reporting
• Sarbanes Oxley conformance
• Asset tagging and tracking
• Various other purposes

His appraisal experience has expanded to include valuations of a variety of industrial, commercial and institutional properties including, but not limited to: construction equipment, convenience stores, farm and ranch equipment, ferrous & non-ferrous metal recycling, healthcare services/ medical devices, millwork production, paper and pulp products, petroleum refueling stations, plastics manufacturing, steel fabricators, Teaching institutions, public utilities, foundries, automotive (OEM and suppliers), and other industries.

Mr. Beckwith’s professional career began in 1976 when he began distributing new and refurbished medical equipment to the healthcare industry. He owned and operated Mission Medical which had several locations in Texas and Mexico. In 1996, he sold Mission Medical and entered the appraisal field full time, receiving his ASA designation two years later.

His article “What is Value?” was published in 1999 for San Antonio Medicine.

He is a Staff Instructor for the American Society of Appraisers, teaching ME201 Introduction to Machinery and Equipment Valuation and ME202 Machinery and Equipment Valuation Methodology. Other duties associated with the ASA include the past Discipline Chairman of Valuation 2004 in Kansas City and serving as the current Editor of the MTS Journal.

Prior to beginning his professional career, Mr. Beckwith earned his BBA at the University of Texas in Austin.

Back to Key Professionals Page