Expertise
Testifying Expert & Litigation Support, Trusts & Estates, Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Fiduciary Standards of Care; Trustee and Executor Conduct; Self‑Dealing; Contested Administration; Probate, Duty of Care, Duty of Loyalty, Beneficiary Disputes; Conflicts of Interest; Fiduciary Governance; Professional, Corporate Trustees, Fiduciary Risk Assessment; Asset Tracing; Complex Entity Structures. RIA, Investment Adviser; Broker‑Dealer; Securities; Suitability; Failure to Supervise; Compliance; Incentive Compensation; Fee Structure; Disclosure Failures; Misrepresentation and Omissions; Adviser Fiduciary Standards; Damages; Regulation BI; FINRA; SEC; OCC; Banking, Lending, Wealth Management, Private Banking; Retail and Business Banking; Underwriting; Banker and Adviser Management. Employment Disputes; Complex Assets and Structures; Private Equity; Cryptocurrency; Digital Assets; Hedge Funds; DSTs. Trust & Business Owned Insurance; Complex Insurance; Captive Insurance; Premium Financing .
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Expertise
Testifying Expert & Litigation Support, Trusts & Estates, Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Fiduciary Standards of Care; Trustee and Executor Conduct; Self‑Dealing; Contested Administration; Probate, Duty of Care, Duty of Loyalty, Beneficiary Disputes; Conflicts of Interest; Fiduciary Governance; Professional, Corporate Trustees, Fiduciary Risk Assessment; Asset Tracing; Complex Entity Structures. RIA, Investment Adviser; Broker‑Dealer; Securities; Suitability; Failure to Supervise; Compliance; Incentive Compensation; Fee Structure; Disclosure Failures; Misrepresentation and Omissions; Adviser Fiduciary Standards; Damages; Regulation BI; FINRA; SEC; OCC; Banking, Lending, Wealth Management, Private Banking; Retail and Business Banking; Underwriting; Banker and Adviser Management. Employment Disputes; Complex Assets and Structures; Private Equity; Cryptocurrency; Digital Assets; Hedge Funds; DSTs. Trust & Business Owned Insurance; Complex Insurance; Captive Insurance; Premium Financing .
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Jon-Eric Kronvall is a testifying expert witness with more than 35 years of experience in fiduciary governance, retail, business, and private banking, investment advisory, and securities regulation. As President of Esoteric Advisors, he delivers expert reports, declarations, affidavits, depositions, and trial testimony to courts, arbitration panels, and counsel on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
His concurrent role as President, CIO, and CCO of Wealth Innovation, a Registered Investment Adviser, keeps his opinions grounded in current market conditions — actively managing portfolios using the same products, regulatory standards, and fiduciary frameworks he analyzes in litigation. Both firms operate independently with no shared clients, referrals, or overlapping engagements.
Recent engagements: 5.5 hours of deposition testimony in a fiduciary breach dispute; a multi-decade offshore account reconstruction spanning Switzerland and Andorra; a sworn declaration filed and accepted into evidence within 48 hours of retention; and 12 hours of deposition testimony involving fiduciary governance failures and improper broker-dealer inducement. His testimony has been expressly cited in a court's written decision.
Prior to founding Esoteric Advisors in 2017, Mr. Kronvall spent 26 years at Wells Fargo Bank as District Manager overseeing ~1,000 employees, and later as Senior Private Banker and Team Lead Wealth Manager in the Montecito Wealth office.
Credentials: CFE, CTFA, FINRA Series 7TO & 66, CA Real Estate, CA Health/Life/Disability. Voting Member, Securities Experts Roundtable.
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