Kim Randolph
Manager, Financial Consulting

Kim Randolph is a Manager in the Financial Consulting Group at BIA Financial Network, Inc. (BIAfn), a financial consulting firm specializing in the appraisal of mobile communications and broadcast properties, and business plans and strategic analyses.  Ms. Randolph has been with BIAfn since July of 2000. 

As a Manager in the Financial Consulting Division of BIAfn, Ms. Randolph is responsible for the preparation of valuation studies, tax and asset appraisals for telecommunications, television, and radio properties.  Ms. Randolph has worked on valuations in several different areas of commercial spectrum, including broadcast, mobile wireless, and fixed wireless.

BIAfn has been valuing Educational Broadband Service (EBS)/Broadband Radio Service (BRS) licenses (formerly ITFS/MMDS) for more than ten years.  Ms. Randolph has been valuing the spectrum for more than four years, and has valued more than 200 EBS licenses worth more than $400 million since the rebanding of the spectrum in 2004.  In addition, she has analyzed competing lease agreements and offered strategic consulting and business planning services for various EBS license holders.   In 2005 through 2007, Ms. Randolph spoke at the National ITFS Association (NIA) Conference on the subject of spectrum value in the 2.5 GHz band.   

While at BIAfn, Ms. Randolph has authored the white paper, Analysis of Auction 66 – Advanced Wireless Spectrum (AWS) and co-authored several other white papers, including a BIAfn’s State of the Radio Industry: Radio Station Transactions 2003 – Is it Going to Get Better?, Newspaper Trends in Q3 – 2003,  Message to Cable Operators Considering Telephony: Look Before You Leap and The MMDS Industry: A Look Into The Industry’s Most Significant Operators.

Prior to joining the Financial Consulting Division at BIAfn, Ms. Randolph was a member of the Research Division, where she was responsible for overseeing the research and compilation of media transactions for BIAfn’s information products and conducting customized industry research analyzing trends in various communications industries to meet the needs of various clients.

Prior to joining BIAfn, Ms. Randolph worked as a Researcher doing projects for NASA and NASDA (the Japanese Space Agency).  She did extensive research on Global Positioning Systems (GPS), spy satellites and Government agencies and programs.

Ms. Randolph earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.  Ms. Randolph is an Associate of the American Society of Appraisers.