RedPeak Economics Consulting

Our Team

Cristian Santesteban, Founder and CEO

Cristian founded RedPeak in 2010 after working at Compass Lexecon (and its predecessors) for almost a decade. In his career, Cristian has worked on some of the most important mergers and antitrust cases of the last two decades, involving firms such as AT&T, Intel, and Comcast. His experience in litigation consulting spans both defense and plaintiff cases and a broad range of antitrust issues, including monopolization, class certification, price fixing, mergers, and damages. He has particular industry expertise in digital platforms, financial markets, semiconductors, media, telecom, biomedical products, food products, commodities, among others. Cristian has testified as expert witness in price fixing, class certification, and monopolization matters. Cristian has led teams in proceedings in U.S. Federal and State courts, as well as administrative agencies in the U.S., Europe and New Zealand. He also performs economic analysis for private sector clients not involved in litigation. He has worked with firms in valuing their client portfolios, consulted on pricing strategies, and contributed his analytical and statistical skills for business strategy. Cristian is Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington. Prior to the UW, Cristian had been Lecturer in Economics at Stanford University from 2012-21 and Lecturer Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley from 2010-12, where he taught microeconomics, game theory, and industrial organization. Cristian also worked in the Clinton White House as a Staff Economist in the Council of Economics Advisers. In that role, he was responsible for industrial organization, regulation, and technology issues. Cristian holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford, completed a Maîtrise in Economics from Université Paris Nanterre, and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from UT Austin. He loves dense cities as well as rugged mountains, especially those with red peaks.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristian-santesteban-a0773247/

Affiliated Experts

Yair Eilat, Senior Consultant

Yair was the Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department at the Israeli Competition Authority. He brings deep expertise in mergers, monopolization, class certification, and all other areas of antitrust analysis. He has had a long career in consulting working for Compass Lexecon and Econic. Yair holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yair-eilat-7670a2b7/