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Martin Martinovic

Martin began his career at MDD Forensic Accountants’ Toronto office in 1998. In 2007, he relocated to London, England to complete a three-month secondment with Xchanging Claims Services (XCS), an entity that provided claims handling for the following market syndicates of Lloyd’s of London at that time. After that, he resumed his practice with MDD London until 2008 when he transferred to MDD New York. He is a Partner at this location.

An experienced forensic accounting professional, Martin has expertise in a wide range of practice areas such as business interruption/lost profits/lost rents, class action/mass tort/multi-district litigation, construction, cyber riskextra expenses/expenses to reduce loss/increased costs, fidelity/employee dishonesty/commercial crime, insurance/reinsurance claims/disputes, personal injury/wrongful death/wrongful termination, physical damage, stock & contentsproduct recall, subrogation and third party and product liability. He has also worked on numerous assignments in the catastrophe services area and was active in MDD’s New York City CAT office following the 9/11 terrorist attack and following Superstorm Sandy.

Martin has provided litigation support, including discovery and document requests/demands, written interrogatories/questions for depositions, economic damage quantifications, reports as a consultant and expert, deposition testimony, and trial preparation and testimony on matters in Canada, the UK and the U.S.

He continues to maintain a strong understanding of the Lloyd’s marketplace following his secondment and serves as an MDD liaison in this respect. He is a much sought after speaker and has presented numerous seminars and workshops.

Martin graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. 

Mark Mangan

Mark joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ London, England office in 2000. He is a Partner at the firm.

An expert in economic damage quantification, Mark focuses his practice on matters related to business interruption, lost profits, product liability & recall, fidelity claims and specialty risks such as event cancellations. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the catastrophe services area both in the UK and overseas. This includes assignments resulting from the 2007 UK floods, 2010 Chilean earthquake, 2011 Japanese earthquake, 2011 Thailand floods and 2015 Tianjin explosion. 

He has been engaged on assignments involving service, retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses across a wide range of industries including hospitality, entertainment, consumer apparel and household goods, automotive, printing, telecommunications, petrochemicals, and aerospace.

Mark has worked on claims in the UK, Israel, Russia, South America, Africa, the Caribbean and throughout Europe. These claims have ranged in value from a few hundred thousand pounds to those in excess of £100 million.

He has been involved in various litigation services assignments concerning contractual disputes and product liability. In addition, he has provided written expert reports for the Courts on numerous occasions.

Mark has conducted seminars and presentations throughout the UK on a wide variety of forensic accounting topics.

He graduated from University of Huddersfield with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Accounting.

Reinhard Krestel

Reinhard joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Chicago office in 2000. He is a Partner at the firm.

Reinhard’s practice concentrates on economic damage quantification and accounting investigations related to lost profits, business interruption, physical damages, construction defects & claims, products liability & recall, shareholder disputes and personal injury, wrongful death & wrongful termination matters. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the area of catastrophe services, earned while assessing the economic damages resulting from 9/11, the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the earthquakes and flooding in Japan and Thailand.

Reinhard has worked on assignments of all sizes around the world, in industries such as automotive, chemical production, steel manufacturing, healthcare, hotel, agribusiness, food processing, professional services and retail and wholesale.

He is regularly engaged to provide litigation support and expert witness testimony.

Reinhard has presented seminars on various forensic accounting topics, including business interruption

He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. 

George Kramer

George began his career with MDD Forensic Accountants’ Miami office in 2002 and is now a Partner at this location. He forms part of the firm’s Latin American Operations and works on assignments in Central and South America as well as the Caribbean.

George specializes in the economic damage quantification of business interruption, fraud, extra expenses, surety & funds control, fidelity claims, and stock & contents claims. Additionally, he has significant catastrophe services experience having worked on assignments ensuing from hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Katrina, Wilma, Odile, Harvey, Irma and Maria.  He was also actively engaged during the Chilean earthquake of 2010. He is fluent in Spanish with a basic knowledge of Portuguese.

George has provided litigation support on numerous occasions, including testimony at depositions and federal court trial.

George graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He also received his Master of Accounting degree from Florida State University.

Paul Isaac

Paul is a Partner with MDD Forensic Accountants in London, England.  He joined the London office in 1999, moving to Asia in 2004 to establish the firm’s Singapore office before returning to MDD London three years later.

Paul has extensive experience in litigation support services, providing witness testimony at the High Court and at international arbitration.  He is a member of the Academy of Experts (MAE) and Expert Witness Institute (MEWI) and has prepared numerous expert reports on a wide range of insurance-related matters and commercial disputes ranging from a few hundred thousand pounds to those in excess of £150 million.

Paul’s forensic accounting practice focuses on lost profits, increased costs of working and stock & contents matters, and he has also dealt with product recall/liability, and business valuation matters.  He heads up the UK Cyber practise area and has dealt with a wide range of industries including automotive, chemicals, biofuels, publishing, hotels, retail, manufacturing, professional services, recycling, waste to energy, luxury goods, pulp and paper, glass manufacture and metals.

Paul is MDD’s Global Catastrophe Coordinator, responsible for delivering MDD’s service delivery to our clients in CAT situations around the world.  He has significant hands-on experience in the catastrophe service areas, handling claims arising from local flooding/wildfire catastrophes to high-profile events including the 2004 Tsunami, 2007 UK floods, 2011 Thai floods, Tohoku Earthquake/Tsunami, 2015 Tianjin explosion, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017, Hurricane Dorian in 2019, COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ida in 2021.

Paul has conducted seminars and training sessions in a number of countries on various technical forensic accounting topics.  Paul is a former President of the London Business Interruption Association, responsible for educating the UK market in all things BI.  He is also a French speaker and oversees the firm’s office and growing forensic accounting practice in France.

He graduated from Kingston University in England with a Masters degree in Accounting and Finance and Aston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business and Modern Languages (French).

Andreea Ilie

Andreea began her career with MDD’s London office over 20 years ago. She moved to Singapore in 2007 to help the continued growth of MDD’s first Asia-Pacific location and is now a Partner at the firm.

Fluent in French and Romanian, Andreea assists her clients by quantifying damages related to business interruption, contingent business interruption, extra expenses, lost profits, stock losses, fidelity claims, fraud investigation, and many other practice areas.

She has a particular interest in the energy sector and extensive experience in quantifying economic damages for power generation, oil & gas, petrochemical, palm oil refinery, pulp & paper, various manufacturing sectors, retail & wholesale, transportation, hospitality and many other industries. Most notably, Andreea is known for her in-depth knowledge of the claims process in Southeast Asia.

Additionally, she has significant catastrophe services experience gained while evaluating the impact of Hurricane Ivan, the Christchurch earthquakes and the Thailand floods

Andreea has provided litigation support services and has acted as an expert witness and testified in court.

She has presented seminars and training sessions on a variety of topics including business interruption measurement to claims managers, underwriters, loss adjusters and lawyers across Asia and the UK.

Andreea has a Master of Business Administration degree and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Marguerite Hart

Marguerite joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 2007. She is a Partner at the firm’s Pittsburgh office.

Marguerite specializes in applying forensic accounting techniques for damage analysis and valuations. An accountant for over 30 years, she focuses on the quantification of damages resulting from business interruption, cyber risks, fidelity claims, fraud and investigations, liability losses and personal injury & wrongful death. In addition, she has been active in the area of catastrophe services.

Marguerite works on complex losses throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Her experience spans a wide range of industries such as automotive, aviation, bio-fuels, cannabis, hospitality, manufacturing, maritime, medical, oil and gas, power generation, professional services, steel and technology.

She serves as a consultant for litigation matters and has been recognized as an expert in state and federal courts as well as alternative dispute settings. She works extensively with counsel through all phases of the litigation process, from discovery though expert testimony.

Marguerite is a dual national (France and U.S.), fluent in French and English and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Maria Geyer

Maria joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ New York office in 1990. She is a Partner at the firm.

Maria has expertise in a wide range of practice areas such as business interruptionlost profits, cyber risks, extra expenses/increased costs, marine, stock & contents, construction defects, builder’s risk & soft costs, physical damagesproduct liability & product recall, third-party liability, theft, fidelity/employee dishonesty, financial condition, personal injury & wrongful death, and subrogation.

Her industry experience includes retail and wholesale, financial services, manufacturing, professional services and renewable energy.

Maria has been retained as an expert witness in the area of accounting and damage evaluation, including admission as an expert witness in State court. Litigation support roles have included analysis of deposition transcripts, preparation of interrogatories of witnesses under oath and expert testimony, preparation of expert reports, and assistance with preparation of document requests for discovery.

Maria is fluent in Spanish and was an integral part of MDD’s catastrophe team in Chile due to the 2010 earthquake and in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria in 2017.

She is a member of the Executive Board of the New York City Association of Insurance Women and a Board Consultant / Accountant for the Loss Executives Association.

Maria graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

Eric Ficken

Eric joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ St. Louis office in 1993. He is a Partner at the firm.

Eric is a highly trained forensic accounting professional and has years of experience in litigation support services performing business valuation and quantifying economic damages related to business disputes, personal injury & wrongful death and construction litigation.  He has provided expert witness testimony in state courts, mediations and arbitrations.

Eric has years of experience in the calculation of business interruption, lost profits, physical damages, fraud and investigations, extra expenses and stock & contents matters.

In addition, he has worked in the catastrophe services area, assisting in the measurement of damages that occurred as a result of 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina, Charley and Rita and various floods.

Eric has been engaged on assignments across a wide range of businesses and industries including base and precious metal mining, steel and aluminum manufacturing, hotels and resorts, retail and wholesale, commercial rental properties, construction and cement manufacturing.

He has conducted seminars for industry professionals on basic accounting principles, business valuation and loss of income.

Eric received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Missouri – Saint Louis.

Kristine Elkind

Kristine joined MDD’s Orlando office in 2000. She is a Partner at the firm.

Kristine’s expertise includes the quantification of economic damages related to lost profits, business interruption, extra expenses, construction claims related to builders’ risk, defects, contractor disputes & project delays, stock & contents, products liability & recall, personal injury & wrongful deathfidelity claims and fraud.

Kristine routinely provides litigation support services to clients and has served as an expert witness in both state and Federal cases and provided testimony at deposition and trial. Kristine has also served as an appraiser in insurance claim disputes.

Much of Kristine’s work has been in the area of catastrophe services. She has handled hundreds of assignments resulting from tropical storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean and the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S., as well as claims involving tornadoes, floods and earthquakes.

Kristine has significant experience involving distributors, franchises, professional services, and retail & manufacturing operations. She also has experience in automotive, agriculture, aviation, banking, commercial and residential rental properties, construction, hospitality, healthcare, food services, tourism, transportation and a wide range of other industries.

She has presented seminars on business interruption, financial motive, stock & contents, lost profits, asset misappropriation, mortgage fraud and auto liability claims.

Kristine previously served on the Board of Directors for the Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention.

She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration.

Karl Ehlert

Karl has been with MDD Forensic Accountants’ Los Angeles office for more than 15 years.  He is a Partner at the firm.

He has vast experience quantifying economic damages related to business interruption, physical damages, fidelity claims, construction defects & claims and builders’ risk & soft costs. He has also worked extensively in the catastrophe services area, assessing losses stemming from natural disasters such as the Northridge earthquake and hurricanes Frances, Jeanne, Ivan, Katrina and Sandy. 

Karl has worked on numerous engagements that involve fund tracing and the quantification of lost assets resulting from employee theft, inventory fraud and other incidents.

His industry experience includes agriculture, entertainment, hospitality, gaming, power generation and manufacturing.

Karl has been retained as an expert witness for cases in both state and federal court and has given deposition and court testimony as well as assisted attorneys with discovery requests and trial preparation.

He graduated from California State University Northridge with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance.

Jonathan Ducey

Jon joined MDD’s Boston office in 1997. In 2003, he moved to open the firm’s office in Portland, Maine. He is a Partner at this location.

Jon has been involved in hundreds of engagements requiring the evaluation and quantification of economic damages, including business interruption and physical damages. He is frequently hired on fidelity claims and matters involving fraud and investigations.

Jon has also been retained by both Plaintiffs and Defendants to evaluate lost earnings capacity, lost profits, lost business value, extra expenses/increased costs, and other economic losses resulting from business disputes, personal injury & wrongful death, physical damages, product liability & recall, and subrogation.

Jon has been engaged as an expert witness for cases in both Federal and State courts.  He has provided testimony in Federal Court and State Superior Courts in Maine and Pennsylvania along with depositions, arbitrations, and mediations.

He has worked on assignments in the manufacturing, mercantile, hotel, hospitality, automotive, construction, pulp and paper, real estate, and power generation industries.

Jon has presented numerous seminars on business interruption losses, reported insurance values, fidelity claims, personal injury & wrongful death damages, and other forensic accounting topics.

He is a Director on the Boards of the Scarborough Education Foundation and Scarborough Soccer Club.  Jon has been a volunteer income tax preparer with the United Way of Greater Portland.

Jon graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

Dennis Corrigan

Dennis interned at MDD Forensic Accountants’ Chicago office while he was in college. He was hired after he graduated in 2005 and is now a Manager at the firm.

Dennis has worked on assignments ranging from under $1,000 to over $200 million. His practice focuses on business interruption, lost profits, construction defects & claims, environmental damages, fidelity claims, fraud & investigationsproduct liability & recall, stock & contents and physical damages matters. 

In addition, he has significant expertise in the catastrophe services area, having quantified losses resulting from major hurricanes around the world as well as earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand and floods in Thailand. 

Dennis has experience with Fortune 500 companies as well as small to midsize corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships. He has been engaged on projects in the automotive, food processing, packaging, agriculture, manufacturing, hotel and hospitality, retail and wholesale, construction, and healthcare industries. He has also been involved in assignments associated with alternative energy and professional services and financial services.

Dennis has provided litigation support to numerous clients. This includes analyzing transcripts, preparing inquiries of witnesses under oath, preparing expert report drafts and measuring economic damages. 

He received his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy degree from Northern Illinois University.

Douglas Coombs

Doug is a Partner at MDD Forensic Accountants’ Parsippany, New Jersey office.

He has worked on numerous engagements involving business interruption, extra expenses, lost profits, fidelity claimsphysical damages and stock & contents. In addition, he has years of experience related to fraud & investigations.

Doug has quantified economic damages for businesses ranging in size from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies and has conducted numerous seminars on forensic accounting topics such as business interruption.

He graduated from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. 

Matthew Adrian

Matt joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1988. He is a Senior Manager at the firm’s Boston office.

Matt specializes in the quantification of economic damage for matters related to lost profits, stock & contents, products liability & recall and fidelity claims. He has also been involved in numerous IOLTA audits.

Matt has worked on assignments throughout the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean.

He has offered expert testimony in court, arbitration, appraisal and reference proceedings. In addition, he has been appointed as both an Appraiser and Referee to assist parties in resolving disputes.

Matt is a graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

Matthew Woodcock

Matthew joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 2000. He is a Partner at the firm’s Minneapolis office and has been a forensic accountant for over 30 years.

During his career, Matt has analyzed economic damages related to publicly held companies and privately-owned businesses of all sizes.  He has analyzed thousands of losses that have ranged in value from $5,000 to more than $500 million.

Matt’s professional practice has concentrated on quantifying economic damages related to lost profitsintellectual propertyproduct liabilityfidelitybusiness interruption, incremental costs, property damages, subrogation and lost wages for personal injury & wrongful death matters.

Matt has worked on assignments spanning a wide range of industries including retail, wholesale, manufacturing, professional services, power generation, biofuels, transportation, pulp and paper as well as numerous others.

He has provided expert witness testimony in both federal and state courts and also served as an accounting expert in mediation, appraisal, arbitration and other similar matters.

Matt has conducted and attended several seminars and workshops on topics such as lost profits, business interruption, lost wages and inventory losses.

He graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Business Administration.

Jeff Williams

Jeff joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Orlando office in 1993. In 2005, he moved to the firm’s Miami / Fort Lauderdale office where he is now a Partner.

An expert in economic damage quantification analysis, Jeff’s professional practice focuses on lost profits, business disputes, builders’ risk & soft costs, business interruption, physical damages, stock & contents matters, personal injury & wrongful death

Jeff has worked on assignments across a wide range of industries.

He has provided expert witness testimony in both state and Federal courts on matters related to lost profits and contractual disputes.  Jeff has also served as an accounting expert in arbitration, mediation and appraisal.

Jeff has presented numerous seminars that have earned participants state approved continuing education credits.

He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

Tony Volpe

Tony joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Toronto office in 1986.  He is now the Partner/Senior Vice President in the firm’s Vancouver office.

Tony is a well-respected forensic accounting professional who has been involved with over 3,000 economic damage assignments in Canada, the United States and overseas. His practice areas include business interruption, property damage, stock & contents, product liability & recall, employee dishonesty, personal injury and extra expenses.  In addition, Tony has worked on numerous rail transportation claims, including derailments.

He has provided expert testimony before the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, as well as at arbitration matters. He has also been appointed as a dispute resolution representative under the British Columbia Insurance Act.

He frequently leads seminars on economic damage quantification, business interruption losses and loss of income to lawyers, insurance companies, various insurance industry groups, and other insurance professionals.

George Uhl

George joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Philadelphia office in 1998. He also worked in MDD Washington DC and Parsippany, New Jersey offices prior to moving to the firm’s Dallas location in 2011. He is a Partner at the firm and is the Managing Partner of the southwest region.

George specializes in business interruption losses, physical damages, employee fraud, extra expenses, construction claims, stock and contents, fidelity losses and third party matters. He also has experience quantifying catastrophe service losses. 

George has been involved in numerous cases across a wide range of industries.

He has served as both a fact and expert witness and has assisted counsel in the preparation and response of interrogatories and requests for documents. In addition, he has prepared expert reports, and provided analysis and testimony in support of his findings and on opposing expert’s findings.

George has co-authored articles on subjects such as occupational fraud that have appeared on websites such as uslaw.org and he has presented seminars to insurance clients on topics such as builders’ risk, business interruption, extra expense and insurable values. 

George received his Masters of Business Administration from Philadelphia University. He also graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Phillip Taylor

Phillip joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ London, England office in 1994. Three years later, he left to work for the London Stock Exchange and subsequently the Financial Services Authority, investigating potential breaches of the Listing Rules. He rejoined MDD in 2001 and relocated in 2003 to open and manage the firm’s Singapore office.

Throughout his career at MDD, Phillip has specialized in the areas of lost profits, material damage, fidelity claims, fraud, product liability and recall damages caused by arson and crisis management.

Phillip has vast experience in catastrophe services. He worked on claims following Typhoon Maemi, the Asian tsunami, the Queensland flooding, the Christchurch earthquakes, The Great Tohoku Japan Earthquake and the 2011 Thailand flooding.

Fluent in both English and French, with a basic understanding of Spanish and Italian, Phillip has been appointed to assignments across Europe and North America as well as over twenty countries in the Asia Pacific region.

His industry experience includes oil and gas, petrochemicals, power generation, mining, manufacturing across numerous sectors, transportation, publishing, financial services, retail & wholesale, hospitality and leisure & entertainment.

Phillip has been engaged on numerous occasions to provide expert witness reports for arbitrations and courts around the world and has participated in several mediations.

He has conducted seminars and training sessions on a variety of topics including business interruption measurement, crisis management, product contamination and business interruption valuation to claims managers, underwriters, loss adjusters and lawyers.

Phillip has a joint degree (French and English) in European Business Administration from Centre d’Etudes Supérieures Européennes de Management (Reims) and Middlesex University (London).  He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. 

Suzanne Tarchala

Suzanne, a Partner since 2008, founded the Detroit office of MDD Forensic Accountants in 2000.

Suzanne has more than 25 years experience helping attorneys, business owners and other professionals understand complex financial information in the context of insurance claims, litigation, arbitration and mediation.

She has applied her skill, knowledge, education and training in the following areas: property damage and business income loss claims, financial investigations, disability income claims, lost profits, employment disputes, personal injury and wrongful death, product recall and product liability.

Suzanne has had exposure to a wide variety of industries and business types. She has substantial experience in the automotive industry and businesses that support the automotive industry, including steel, supply chain companies, original equipment manufacturers, aftermarket sales, automotive repairs and automobile dealerships.

Suzanne has assisted in the representation of plaintiffs and defendants in numerous litigated matters and has served as an expert witness in both Federal and State courts.

She has also served as a Federal court appointed Mediator and has been appointed as an Appraiser and Umpire in insurance related disputes.

Suzanne is Chair of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) Women’s Initiatives Task Force. She is also an Executive Board Member of All the World’s A Stage, a non-profit organization that teaches life skills through theatre arts education.

She has presented seminars and other training events to a wide variety of audiences on various forensic accounting topics. She has authored and been cited in forensic accounting related articles.

Suzanne graduated summa cum laude from the University of Detroit with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting. She is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Certified in Financial Forensics designation awarded by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Scott Schellenberg

Scott joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Toronto office in 2005. He opened the Calgary location in 2006 and the Edmonton location in 2011. He is a Partner/Senior Vice President and Managing Partner of our Calgary and Edmonton offices. He is a key member of MDD’s Global Energy team and Global Executive Committee and is Canada’s regional Oil & Gas Coordinator.

Scott has practiced exclusively in litigation supportbusiness valuation and forensic accounting for more than 20 years.  This work has included breach of contract, shareholder disputes, expropriationdivorce & marital disputesfraudcatastrophe servicespersonal injury & wrongful deathproduct liability & product recall, business interruptionextra expensesbuilders’ risk claims & soft cost claimsstock & contents, and physical damages. He also has extensive experience in the catastrophe services area, managing MDD’s response to claims that occurred as a result of the 2011 Slave Lake wildfire, 2013 Alberta floods and 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires.

Scott’s assignments have encompassed a broad range of industries including oil & gaspower generation and distribution, agriculture, automotive, food and beverage manufacturing, construction, chemical manufacturing, hotels and resortsshipping/ transportation industries, real estate, retail and wholesale.

In addition to qualifying as an expert witness and providing testimony in The Alberta Court of King’s Bench, he has provided mediation and arbitration services and acted as an Appraiser under the Insurance Act.

He has conducted numerous seminars and workshops on the subject of economic damage quantification.

Scott graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He received his Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting from the University of Toronto.

Brad Ryden

Brad joined MDD Forensic Accountants over 30 years ago and is the managing partner of the firm’s Philadelphia office.  He has been a partner since 1997.

His practice focuses primarily on the investigation and evaluation of economic damage sustained due to physical damages, casualty loss and business interruption. Brad also has extensive knowledge in the areas of builders’ risk, extra expenses, products liability, third party disputes, and financial analyses of arson cases.

As a licensed CPA in Pennsylvania, and Texas, he has worked on behalf of his clients in a wide variety of industries, including: steel, utilities / green energy, pulp and paper, glass manufacturing, hotel and hospitality, gaming, restaurants, retail and wholesale, consumer goods manufacturing and petrochemicals. He has quantified damages related to the operations of Fortune 500 companies, as well as small to mid-size corporations and sole proprietorships. 

Brad has a wealth of experience providing litigation support. He has provided deposition testimony over 40 times. He has been qualified as an expert on numerous occasions in both Federal and state courts, performing loss of profits evaluations and testifying in subrogation cases. He has also been hired by the United States Department of Justice for an arson investigation as well as a case involving ability to pay.

He has conducted seminars for industry professionals on business interruption, builders’ risk, overhead costs in inventory and business interruption value reporting.

Brad received his Bachelors of Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting from  Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

Glenn Ricciardelli

Glenn joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Boston office in 1979. He became a Partner at the firm in 1986.

Glenn has been involved in over 2,000 economic damage quantification, valuation and litigation engagements in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. He has worked on assessments ranging from $5,000 to $750 million. 

Glenn has assisted publicly-held companies and privately-owned businesses of all sizes. His practice areas include business interruption, lost profits, marital disputesstock & contents, builder’s risk & soft costs, products liability & recall, employee dishonesty / fidelity claims, fraud & financial condition, construction, personal injury, wrongful death & wrongful termination and business valuation.

Glenn has provided expert witness testimony in U.S. Federal court as well state courts in Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin. He has also been retained as a referee, appraiser or umpire on ADR and arbitration cases.

He has conducted seminars on a wide range of forensic accounting topics for clients.

Glenn is a former Director of the Needham Bank and a member of its finance and audit committees. He is also Treasurer and Director of Birthday Wishes Inc., a non-profit organization that provides birthday parties to homeless children in shelters in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York, as well as Junior Achievement of Northern New England, which provides financial literacy educational programs and job skills to young people.

Glenn graduated with distinction from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

Martin Pavelic

Martin is a Partner/Senior Vice President at MDD Forensic Accountant’s Hamilton office and the Managing Partner of the Hamilton, Montreal and Winnipeg offices.

He has years of experience in forensic accounting, quantifying damages in Canada, the UK, U.S., Middle East and the Caribbean. 

His practice areas include fraud, business interruption, business disputes, stock & contents, physical damages, product liability & recall, personal injury and wrongful death, contingency/entertainment insurance claims, catastrophe services and fidelity claims. Martin has also been engaged in numerous appraisal cases and has security clearance at the Enhanced Reliability Level.

Martin has broad experience in agriculture, automotive, cable/broadcasting, chemical manufacturing, restaurants, healthcare, hotels and resorts, mining, oil and gas, pulp and paper, retail and wholesale, telecommunications and construction industries. In addition, he has vast experience in the power generation sector.

He has provided litigation support and expert testimony in fidelity, commercial disputes and business income loss matters before the Supreme Court of Ontario, Superior Court of Quebec and in the Federal Court of Canada.

Martin has conducted numerous seminars and workshops for a variety of industry professionals.

He is a graduate of McMaster University where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Brian Mohlenhoff

Brian joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1994. He is a partner at the firm’s New Jersey office in Parsippany. 

A licensed CPA in both New Jersey and New York, Brian’s practice focuses primarily on business interruption. He uses his years of experience, keen investigative techniques and extensive knowledge of business, operational and manufacturing processes to accurately quantify and measure losses on behalf of his clients.

Brian has been retained on thousands of engagements, covering businesses ranging in size from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies. He has worked on business interruption claims for losses under $5,000 as well as those in excess of $300 million.

Brian has offered expert witness testimony – related to accounting and damage evaluation – in various state courts.

Brian has co-authored articles on subjects such as occupational fraud that have appeared on websites such as uslaw.org, and he regularly conducts seminars for clients on topics such as business interruption and rental losses.

Active in the community, Brian serves as Chief Financial Officer for the Healing Haiti Fund.   

He is a graduate of the University of Scranton where he received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

Paul McGowan

Paul is a Partner in the Boston office of Matson, Driscoll & Damico, LLP and also serves as the Global Managing Partner of MDD International Limited.

For more than 30 years, Paul has actively provided consulting and litigation support services to his clients. A seasoned forensic accounting professional, he applies his knowledge and technical skills to assist his clients.

Special assets divisions of banking and lending institutions often trust Paul to help them achieve quick and effective resolutions to matters involving their debtors. He has aided these organizations in the tracing of the debtor’s use of funds under certain credit facilities and has helped them evaluate the debtor’s ability to meet their obligations. 

Paul has offered expert testimony in both state and federal courts throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. 

In addition, he has testified in reference, arbitration and mediation proceedings and has been appointed as both an appraiser and referee to assist parties in resolving their disputes.

Paul graduated from Babson College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. 

Daniel Markowicz

Dan has been at MDD Forensic Accountants for over 30 years. His first eleven years were spent in the firm’s Chicago office and he has managed the Los Angeles location since 1995.

Dan is skilled at analyzing financial and operating data to help determine and verify economic losses. During his career, he has provided economic damage quantification assessments for a wide range of clients on matters relating to stock & contents, construction defects & claims, fraud, product liability and recall, fidelity claims, personal injury, wrongful death & wrongful termination. 

Throughout his career, Dan has provided litigation support offering his expertise during the discovery process and the development of expert reports. In addition, he has given expert witness testimony during depositions and proceedings in various state courts.

Dan is a frequent presenter – at both in-house and industry events – on the subjects of accounting for commercial property losses and loss of income.

Dan is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting.

Norman Kwan

Norman joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ San Francisco office in 2001 as a Staff Accountant. In 2007, he relocated to the Singapore office to assist with the firm’s expansion of its Asia Pacific operations. In 2009, Norman opened the Hong Kong Office and in 2013, he opened the Tokyo Office. He is a Partner at the firm.

Fluent in both English and Cantonese, Norman has vast international experience and has provided litigation services to clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.

He has performed economic damage quantification assessments for many of MDD’s practice areas including matters related to fidelity, business interruption, extra expenses and stock & contents.  Additionally, he has significant experience in the environmental damages and catastrophe services areas, having been engaged on assignments resulting from hurricanes Katrina, Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as the Asian tsunami, the Great Tohoku earthquake and the Thai Floods.

He has conducted and presented seminars on forensic accounting topics such as business interruption, extra expenses, stock & contents and catastrophe services.

Norman graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. 

Peter Karutz

Peter joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1983. Ten years later, he became a Partner and currently works out of the St. Louis office. Peter is also the Team Leader of MDD’s Cyber Practice Group.

He has extensive experience quantifying economic damages for arbitrations and contractual disputes and has been qualified to serve as an expert witness in Federal courts in Missouri and Kansas. He has also assisted with depositions and discoveries in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Illinois, North Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri.

He specializes in matters related to lost profits, business interruption, physical damages, oil & gas, cyber risks, power generation, mining, stock & contents, catastrophe services and fraud.

Peter has worked on numerous projects both in the U.S. and abroad. His experience spans a wide range of industries including automotive, retail, grain processing and transportation, banking, ethanol, synthetic gas, biomass plants, fisheries, aerospace manufacturing, hotels and hospitality and entertainment

With a working knowledge of Spanish, he assisted in the measurement of damages that occurred as a result of the 2010 Chile earthquakes. Additionally, he assisted in the quantification, verification and analysis of damages that resulted from 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the government closure of auto dealerships.

Peter has spoken to groups such as the American Bar Association, Lloyd’s of London Syndicates and Xchanging on forensic accounting topics such as Cyber Fraud. 

He serves on the Board of Directors of a number of charities and not-for-profit organizations and is an active member of the Knights of Columbus and Knights of Peter Claver. Peter is also president of the St. Louis chapter of Legatus.

He is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Markus Heiss

Markus joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1993. He has been a Partner at the firm’s London, England office since 2002.

Markus has provided economic damage quantification assessments for over 1,000 files in more than 30 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Far East, Africa, Australasia and North and South America. His professional practice specializes in matters related to business interruption, lost profits, loss of income, stock and property damage losses, construction defects & claims, fidelity and fraud, often as a result of physical damages, machinery breakdown, natural disasters or contractual and legal disputes. 

He has been engaged on assignments involving retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses across a wide range of industries including automotive, consumer goods packaging, telecommunications, mining & refiningpower generation, chemicals, petrochemicals, onshore and offshore energy, publishing, pulp and paper and steel.

Fluent in English, Spanish and German (mother tongue), Markus has provided expert witness testimony both in the UK and Europe.

He has conducted seminars and workshops in the UK, Europe and Dubai.

Markus graduated from Munich University as a ‘Diplom-Kaufmann’ in Business, Accounting, Tax and Law.

Dayne Grey

Dayne joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1988 and is a Partner in the Atlanta office.

Dayne is a licensed CPA in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

Over the years he has worked on various type matters including but not limited to, quantifying economic damages related to builders’ risk and soft costsbusiness disputesbusiness interruptionconstruction delay claims, extra expenses, fidelity claimslost profits, personal injury, physical property damagesstock & contents, and products liability & recall matters. He has worked on cases that have ranged in magnitude from under $10,000 to over $200 million.

Dayne has provided expert witness testimony in Federal and State court. He has also been retained as a consultant on litigation matters providing services that include: analyzing opposing damage measure expert reports; preparing document requests and interrogatories for discovery and preparing inquires for opposing experts.

Dayne has presented numerous seminars on forensic accounting topics to groups such as the American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and the Professional Loss Research Bureau. Dayne is a graduate of Southern Adventist University where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting.

Mark Gain

Mark joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Toronto office in 2004. Prior to joining MDD, Mark was a partner at a large national accounting firm.  He is the practice leader for litigation services in Canada and is a Partner/Senior Vice President at the firm.

With more than 30 years’ forensic accounting expertise, Mark has conducted over 2000 investigations. Some of the areas he’s worked in include loss of income, expropriations damage quantifications, fraud and employee defalcations, intellectual property assessments involving patents & copyrights, personal injury & wrongful death, breach of contract and product liability & recall.

Mark’s assignments have covered a wide range of industries including automotive, power generation, mining and refining, steel manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, chemical manufacturing, hotels and resorts, retail and wholesale and transportation.  

Mark provides litigation support in business disputes, shareholder and partner disputes and business income loss matters. He has provided expert testimony before the Superior Court of Ontario, The Alberta Court of the King’s Bench, The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and in the Federal Court of Canada – as well as expert testimony on the financial viability of an entity’s operations in both criminal and civil proceedings. 

Mark has acted on numerous occasions as an Appraiser under the Insurance Act and has been appointed to act as Umpire. He has also been appointed by the RCMP and Anti-Rackets Section of the Ontario Provincial Police to oversee in-house forensic accounting services.

He is a much sought after speaker and seminar leader on the subject of business interruption and loss of income claims.

Mark received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University where he graduated summa cum laude.

John Foley

John joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ New York office in 1981. As one of the firm’s senior partners, he is a long-time member of MDD’s U.S. and Global Executive Committees. 

John is a forensic and investigative accounting professional with over 40 years of experience. He is an expert at quantifying damages as they apply to business interruption, extra expenses, physical damages, fraud, products liability & recall, lost profits and catastrophe services matters.

John has been involved in engagements in a wide range of industries such as chemical manufacturing, construction, mining, entertainment, steel, food processing, lumber, telecommunications, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical services and energy.

John has provided expert witness testimony in Federal and state courts and has assisted lawyers in breach of contract cases and arbitrations.

He has conducted seminars and workshops on numerous topics such as insurance values.

John is a graduate of Pace University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. 

Kevin Flaherty

Kevin joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1988 and is a Partner at the firm’s Boston office.

A specialist in the evaluation and quantification of economic damages, Kevin has worked on assignments of all sizes – from claims of $5,000 to those in excess of $800 million. 

Over the years, Kevin has focused on a variety of matters involving shareholder disputes, divorce, business valuations, Ponzi and embezzlement matters. His wide-ranging industry experience focuses on engagements involving the evaluation and quantification of damages with a focus on lost profits and damaged property. Notably, he was retained to evaluate construction damages related to the “Big Dig” in Boston and the events surrounding 9/11, including the collapse of World Trade Center 7.

Kevin has been retained as a consultant on litigation matters and has also qualified as an expert witness in both state and Federal courts and is also the head of its U.S. litigation services group.

Kevin graduated from Babson College with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Jack Flaherty

Jack joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1990. He is currently a Partner at the firm’s Hartford office.

Jack has quantified economic damages for claims of all sizes – from those well in excess of $10 million to losses amounting to under $1 million. 

He specializes in a wide range of practice areas including lost profits, construction defects & claims, builders’ risk & soft costs, stock & contents, fraud, concealment & misrepresentation, products liability & recallpersonal injury & wrongful death and marital dissolution.

Jack has served as an expert witness and has provided litigation support services for matters related to business income, inventory value, personal earnings, disputed commissions and legal malpractice.

He has presented seminars on topics such as fraud, business income, extra expense and inventory losses.

Jack is a graduate of Babson College where he received his Bachelor of Science degree.

Brad Ebel

Brad has over 30 years of experience in forensic accounting and economic damage quantification assessments and leads the firm’s global mining practice. To read Brad’s mining bio please click here.

He has conducted or been involved in, over 2,000 assignments across a wide range of industries in Canada and around the world.  These industries include mining and refining, oil and gas, power generation and distribution, construction, steel and aluminum, hotels and resorts, forest products industries and agriculture. He has also quantified economic damages in transportation matters arising from train derailments, aircraft manufacturing losses, marine fire losses and cargo evaluations. 

Brad’s practice areas include fraud and investigations, business interruption, entertainment contingency claims, product liability & recall, personal injury and wrongful death, and fidelity claims.

He has provided litigation support and economic damage quantification in matters involving business income loss, physical damage and property loss, bodily injury economic loss and third party loss quantification and has provided expert testimony on these matters before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the King’s Bench of New Brunswick. 

Brad has been appointed as an Appraiser under the Insurance Act and provided expert evidence at Appraisal hearings on numerous occasions.

He has been a guest speaker and seminar leader on many occasions on economic loss and damage topics such as business interruption and loss of income.

Brad is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, where he received a Bachelor of Mathematics degree with a Chartered Accountancy option. He joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1984 and became a Partner with the firm in 1990. He serves as President of MDD Canada.

John Damico

Jack is one of the Founding Partners of MDD Forensic Accountants.

Jack specializes in forensic accounting assignments that require an in-depth examination of domestic and multinational accounting as well as operating and financial records.

He has more than five decades of worldwide experience and has worked on some of the most significant and complex claims related to physical damagesbusiness interruptionextra expenseslost profits, business disputesproduct liability & product recallenvironmental damages and subrogation matters. He has also been engaged on a wide variety of assignments in the catastrophe services area, including those pertaining to accidents at nuclear power plants, terrorist attacks, product contamination incidents and damages resulting from natural disasters.

Jack is a ARIAS-U.S. Certified Arbitrator and he has provided expert witness testimony on numerous occasions in Federal, state and foreign courts on issues such as business disputes, class action matters for both plaintiff and defendant, lost profits and predatory pricing. 

A highly regarded speaker, Jack has presented seminars, workshops and papers on a wide range of topics related to his global experience and expertise.

A Vietnam War veteran, Jack served his country as a LTJG in the U.S. Navy. He is a graduate of Boston College.

Neal Cason

Neal joined MDD Forensic Accountants 40 years ago. He is a Partner Emeritus at the firm’s Atlanta office.

Over the course of his career, Neal has assisted both publicly held companies and privately owned businesses of all sizes. He has worked on thousands of assignments that have ranged in value from $5,000 to more than $500 million

Neal’s practice focuses on the quantification of economic damages for matters pertaining to intellectual property, construction defects & claims, lost profits, personal injury & wrongful death, fraud and investigations, wrongful termination, business valuations, business disputes, subrogation, business interruption and physical damages. In addition, he has been engaged in the area of catastrophe services, quantifying losses that occurred as a result of natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy.

Neal has worked extensively throughout the U.S. across a wide range of industries, including transportation, construction, pulp and paper, professional services, retail and wholesale, utilities and high technology.

He has provided expert witness testimony in the area of accounting and damage evaluation in Federal court and the state courts of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. He has also worked as a Referee or Umpire on arbitration cases.  Additionally, he has provided comprehensive litigation support services, including the analysis of transcripts, witness and expert report preparation and assistance with all aspects of discovery.

Neal has been a guest speaker at the annual PLRB Claims Conference on topics such as commercial claims losses, arson and fraud. He has also presented to business students at the University of Georgia on the subject of fraud control and assists many of his clients with in-house training.

Neal has published on Forensic Accounting’s Role in Corporate Governance.

Active in the community, he has served on the board of Atlanta’s Northside Youth Organization and coaches basketball and baseball.

Neal is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting, Magnum Cum Laude.

Dusty Bredeson

Dusty joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Atlanta office in 1985. In 1988, he relocated to Charlotte where he helped build the firm’s local office. In 2003 he became a partner at that location.

A forensic accountant for over 30 years, Dusty specializes in the quantification of economic damages in the following practice areas: lost profitsbusiness interruption, extra expenses, fidelity claims, physical damages, builder’s risk, stock & contents and liability claims

He is also experienced in providing catastrophe loss services following natural disasters.

Dusty has worked on engagements across a wide range of industries such as chemical manufacturing, hospitals, hotels, rental property, pharmaceuticals, textiles, furniture, retail and wholesale and professional services.

He has years of experience providing litigation support services and has rendered expert witness testimony at depositions and in court.

He is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Gerry Bouwman

Gerry Bouwman is the Global Strategy & Development Partner. In this role, he works with global clients to understand their needs and ensure that MDD’s unrivalled team of global forensic accounting experts meets their demands.

An internationally respected expert in his own right, Gerry joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 1993. Over that time, he has assisted clients with economic damage quantification and litigation support matters related to business interruption losses, extra expenses, construction defects, physical damages, contingency/entertainment, products liability & recall, lost profits, catastrophe services, business disputes, and cyber-attacks.

His industry expertise encompasses automotive, aviation, construction, all types of manufacturing, entertainment, hotels & resorts, retail, wholesale, and transportation. Notably, Gerry has worked on many assignments in power generation, mining & refining, and steel processing.

He has served as an accounting expert in arbitrations, mediations, and appraisals and rendered expert reports for matters in Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe.

Gerry has authored articles on topics such as business interruption that have appeared in publications such as Claims Canada. He has also conducted numerous seminars and workshops on many issues related to economic damage quantification.

Before taking on his current position, Gerry was a Partner/Senior Vice President for MDD’s Canadian entity. In this capacity, he served as the Canadian Director of Business Development & Marketing and Canadian CAT Coordinator. He was also a member of MDD’s Global Catastrophe Team and the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He currently has a key role on MDD’s Global Energy team.

Kent Bogdan

Kent began his career at MDD Forensic Accountants in 1988, working under the tutelage of one of the firm’s founding partners. He became a partner at MDD’s Dallas office in 2002.

A CPA in the state of Texas and a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics, Kent’s practice areas include business interruption, extra expenses, inventory and physical damage claims, product liability and lost profits. He also takes an active role in arbitrations, appraisals and mediation cases.

In the past, Kent was involved in the preparation of claims of war damage by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company against the Government of Iraq in accordance with a resolution by the United Nations.

Kent has calculated economic damages for a wide variety of industries including energy (refineries, pipelines and power plants), petrochemical, manufacturing, textile, entertainment, retail and wholesale, restaurants, gaming and resorts.

He has been named an expert in both state and federal courts and has testified on numerous litigation matters.

Kent has presented seminars on topics that include builders’ risk, business interruption losses, insurable values and the accountant’s role in an insurance claim.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jeffrey Belack

Jeff opened MDD Forensic Accountants’ Pittsburgh office in January 2001. He is a Partner at the firm.

A CPA for over twenty-five years with extensive experience in damage quantification, Jeff’s practice focuses on matters pertaining to business interruption and physical damages. He has also been involved in engagements related to extra expenses, personal injury & wrongful death, lost profits, stock & contents, fidelity claims, fraud and investigations, product liability & recall and subrogation.

Jeff works with insurance carriers and Fortune 500 companies across a wide range of industries including automotive, mining, chemical manufacturing, hotel and hospitality, steel, aluminum, minerals, aggregates, glass, retail and wholesale, real estate, industrial printing, technology, and professional services.

Jeff has been retained on major litigation assignments and has served as a consultant on a wide variety of cases, including those involving an assessment of financial condition. He regularly serves as an expert witness and provides testimony in state and Federal courts and alternative dispute settings.

Jeff has conducted seminars and workshops for leading insurance companies and was partner-in-charge of MDD’s global training for 3 years.

He is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

David Maritz

David joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Auckland, New Zealand office in 2013. He is a Partner at the firm, overseeing the Australasia region.

David has over twenty years of economic damage quantification experience. He helped establish the first specialist forensic accounting/claim preparation consultancy in New Zealand and has held senior management positions at some of the region’s top forensic accounting firms.

David’s professional practice focuses on matters related to business interruption, lost profits, fidelity claims, fraud, and natural disasters. Additionally, he has a wealth of experience in the catastrophe services area. This includes assignments resulting from the Auckland power outage, Fiji floods, Canterbury earthquakes, Queensland Floods, Japanese tsunami and Thailand floods. 

David has managed losses in New Zealand, Australia and throughout Asia.

He has participated as an expert witness on quantum in arbitrations and has serviced as an expert advisor on quantum in numerous mediations.

David graduated from the University of Natal, South Africa with Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees. He also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Studies (Dispute Resolution) at Massey University, New Zealand.