Energy Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 35 years of advisory and energy industry experience for both domestic and international projects. As Director of Forensics and Dispute Services for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, he consulted with a Moroccan oil and gas company in an international fraud dispute involving an oil service technology company, while he provided expert testimony and analysis for a separate multimillion dollar lawsuit involving oil and gas fraud. He also provided debtor assistance and testimony in bankruptcy proceedings involving a $200 million offshore oil and gas company. As a Managing Director with Econ One Research, he prepared a rebuttal report and testified in an international arbitration involving a dispute between a government and a developer of a major heavy oil project A member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, he has been published in the "Journal of the American Chemical Society" and has testified in The Hague concerning the value of oil and gas reserves in an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes proceeding. Currently, this expert is a Managing Director at an international consulting firm, where he continues to advise on oil, natural gas, and related energy issues.

This expert has been working in the petroleum industry for over 40 years. He has worked for numerous petroleum and energy firms in a variety of capacities, from production and drilling accountant and oil and gas accountant to senior internal auditor, control analyst, audit manager, and senior staff auditor. Awarded the honor of Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, he holds a number of certifications for auditing, fraud examination, and consulting, while he has held membership in the Council of Petroleum Accountants Societies for over 40 years. Currently, this expert runs his own petroleum consulting firm, where he provides services in the areas of auditing, negotiation, reviews, due diligence, fraud, litigation support, and joint interest and contract compliance. His clients have included Amoco, Chevron, Exxon, and Texaco, among many others, and his audits have returned exceptions of up to $60 million. This expert is an author and widely published.

This HVAC expert has more than 35 years in the HVAC and energy industry. He has extensive experience managing individual retail locations, as well as service as a regional manager with 300-400 employees. He specializes in providing training, sales, and marketing services to the HVAC, propane, and heating oil industry. He has developed and implemented marketing programs to increase customer bases and turnaround losses in the HVAC industry. He has experience establishing marketing and operational direction to HVAC, propane, and heating oil companies.

This expert has over 25 years of experience, transitioning through the professional disciplines of accounting, tax, law and finance, including public accounting and private law practice, as well as legal and corporate finance executive positions with Oryx Energy (now Anadarko Petroleum), Verizon and GreenTech Petroleum. He leverages on multi-disciplinary skill-sets in overseeing capital structure, determining the optimum mix of debt, equity and internal financing, building complex economic & financial models, performing the budgeting and forecasting function, developing strategies to improve economic efficiencies on capital deployed, managing complex tax issues and litigation and understanding and resolving financial and accounting questions. He is highly experienced at preparing and communicating business plans and strategies and preparing professional finance packages for qualified projects. He has a heavy international background, including mergers and acquisitions, and all types of domestic and cross-border transactions, with countries such as Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, among many others. He has been published in multiple national journals such as Business Week and the Journal of Corporate Taxation. He has also successfully testified as a finance expert witness in major commercial litigation (involving hundreds of millions of dollars) in venues including state and county courts, U.S. Federal District Court and U.S. Tax Court. Given his diverse background and global experience, he offers a unique blend of business acumen and legal knowledge in negotiating complex transactions, working with integrated teams of professionals from tax, accounting, finance, legal, engineering, geology, and operations departments of companies.

This extremely qualified expert has years of experience in human factors, machine design and systems methodologies as they apply to the prevention of injury involving industrial and agricultural equipment. He received his MEA degree from George Washington University and his PhD degree in industrial engineering from West Virginia University. He is a member of multiple professional associations, including the American Society of Safety Engineers and the System Safety Society. He has published 25+ peer-reviewed journal articles. He lectures both nationally and internationally and has received several honors for his impressive work, including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's "Performance Award," which he received on 13 years. He is a former safety engineer specializing in occupational safety and health administration at the Office of Mechanical Engineering Standards Development and a former research safety engineer at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Currently, he is an associate professor of industrial and management systems engineering at a major university and the director of a major engineering research and development company.

His research interests include advanced materials and their applications in renewable energy devices, environmental science and smart electronics.

This expert has more than 25 years of real estate experience in domestic and international markets. She advises public and private companies, lenders, hedge funds and secured and unsecured creditors on complex real estate issues. Specific areas of professional expertise include dispute resolution, the valuation of loan and REIT portfolios, strategic planning for the acquisition and disposition of major real estate assets, the marketability and feasibility of large scale development and the allocation of purchase price resulting from corporate acquisitions and mergers. She also performs fair value analyses for loan portfolios in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards. She has advised clients on a variety of matters for the following property types: investment grade office complexes; regional shopping malls and power centers; corporate headquarters, distribution and manufacturing facilities for Fortune 500 companies; sports and entertainment complexes; hospitals, nursing homes and related health care facilities; medical and bio-technical research and laboratory complexes; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities; full service hotel and resort properties; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities. She serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and FINRA, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a global real estate professional organization. She also maintains the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). She has served on on the National Executive Committee of the Counselors of Real Estate and is on various professional boards including Adavanced Board of Real Estate Development (ABRED).

This active consulting petroleum engineer has extensive experience in the drilling, completion, and operational planning on hundreds of vertical and horizontal wells. He earned his BS in Petroleum Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University and began his career with Chevron. He then worked as a Drilling Rep & Production Engineer for Mesa Petroleum Co. and as a Operations Manager for Foran Oil Co. The expert spent 23 years with Read & Stevens, where he eventually served as President. During this time, he oversaw 200 operated wells producing 4,400 BOE per day and numerous nonoperated properties.

This oil and gas accounting expert is a certified public accountant in Pennsylvania and a graduate of Washington & Jefferson College, where he earned his BA in accounting. He began his career in the Pittsburgh Assurance & Advisory Services practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP, working on public and private engagements in the energy, financial, and manufacturing sectors. The expert went on to establish his own public accounting and oil and gas consulting firm and currently specializes in the valuation of oil and gas assets, oil and gas management/advisory services, and tax and estate planning. He is a certified minerals manager, a member of the Council of Petroleum Accountants Society, and the treasurer of the National Association of Royalty Owners.

This highly qualified expert is has been in his field for over 30 years. He holds a PhD in engineering and economics from UC Davis, and is a certified energy manager and certified sustainable development professional. He is active in his field as a member of professional organizations including the American Water Works Association and the American Energy Society. He formerly served as an energy analyst at the California Energy Commission and as a public utility regulatory program specialist and a utility resource planner at the California Public Utilities Commission. He currently serves as president and founder of a water and energy consultancy.

This expert has nearly two decades of sales experience in the renewable energy space. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and his MBA from Willamette University. He holds several certifications from professional development, including LEAN Six Sigma, strategic selling, and contract law certifications. He previously served as the chief operating officer of US Digital, the vice president of sales and marketing for Evergreen International, and as the CEO of SunModo Corporation. During his time at SunModo, this expert was responsible for the overall operations of the company as they related to sales, marketing, supply chain diversity, and industry growth. This expert is currently the president of a development consultancy in Washington.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in energy, climate, and environmental insurance. He earned his MBA from the University of Southern California and his LLM from the University of Cambridge. This expert is licensed in Surplus Lines insurance and is a fellow of the Risk Management Society. He has formerly served as an insurance broker for Lloyd's and in several management positions at Sedgwick James and Minet. He also founded and served as the CEO for two successful insurance service firms, International Energy Insurance Brokers and St. Andrews Risk Services. Currently, this expert is the CEO and co-founder of an underwriting company based in California and London, England.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of electric power generation EPC (engineering procurement construction), renewable technologies, and engineering contracts both in the US and internationally. He received his BS in general engineering from the United States Military Academy before earning his MS in nuclear engineering from MIT and his MBA in finance from the University of Santa Clara. This expert is currently a licensed professional engineer in the state of Kansas. For 22 years, he worked with Black & Veatch Engineers and Contractors, holding a variety of roles including, analyst and section head of system planning, project manager of both owner/engineer projects and Turkey power generation projects, and division head of the Asia power division. This expert then went on to serve as the vice president of construction for Aquila, the managing director of technical support for TYR Energy, and the site and construction manager for Forge Group in Australia. Currently, this expert serves as a consultant for an engineering consultancy, reviewing engineering contracts both in the United States and internationally.

This expert earned his PhD in law at the University of Naples Parthenope and his masters degree in comparative law at the University of Miami. He has formerly worked as the director of the India-U.S. Chamber of Commerce of Florida and the chairman and CEO of the United States Association of the Club of Rome. He is currently the president and CEO of a company that organizes speaking engagements for energy companies from around the world.

This expert has nearly 30 years of experience consulting on matters involving energy and utilities, oil and natural gas, refining, renewable energy, petrochemicals, and project management. He earned a BS in engineering from Bangalore University in India, and served as a project manager at an engineering consultancy in India for two years before attending graduate school in Texas. While earning a MS in engineering at Texas Tech University, this expert served as a research assistant with the civil engineering department. He went on to serve as a senior consultant at Green & Associates, an engineering and management consultancy. Currently, this expert serves as a contract consultant at an engineering firm in Texas, as well as a consultant at an independent engineering consultancy.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience as a water and energy engineer. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in engineering and economics from the University of California, Davis. He is certified as a sustainable development professional and an energy manager. He is active in his field as a member of the Association of Energy Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Water Works Association. He has formerly served as a systems specialist at the California Energy Commission and a utility regulatory program specialist and utility resource planner at the California Public Utilities Commission, as well as a principal consultant at HES, Inc. For the last 25 years, he has served as the founder and president of his own water and energy consulting firm.