News | August 11, 2025
Secretariat Announces 2025 Mid-Year Promotions
Secretariat is thrilled to celebrate the mid-year promotion of 21 individuals across 11 global offices.
May 27, 2025
Secretariat is delighted to congratulate our recently promoted Managing Directors: Deven Bowles, Erica Greulich, Greg Johnson, Zack Kilgore, Gareth McDermott, Tony Nedinsky, Michael Pogue, and Ivy Tse.
Each of our new MDs has demonstrated that they represent the best of Secretariat—consistently delivering the highest-quality work, earning the trust of our clients through exceptional judgment and integrity, and exemplifying the values that define who we are.
“Developing talent from within and providing opportunities for our high performers to own and advance their careers are hallmarks of what make our firm unique,” says Managing Director Don Harvey. “This commitment not only strengthens our culture but also ensures we continue to grow in a smart, strategic way.”
We are thrilled to congratulate our newest MDs on this well-earned achievement and celebrate the impact they will continue to have in the years ahead.
Deven has nearly 20 years of experience in both industry and consulting roles within the energy sector. He provides expert testimony and other dispute advisory services to law firms and their clients, having testified in U.S. State and Federal courts on more than 100 occasions. He has extensive, hands-on experience in multiple areas of oil and gas production, including upstream and midstream sectors. His testimony and consulting experience frequently deal with contractual disputes and industry customs and practices, including royalty valuation, market value analysis, production in paying quantities, infrastructure and rate disputes, damages quantification, product imbalances, and other commercial issues.
Erica specializes in empirical microeconomics and quantitative analysis. Her consulting engagements frequently concern antitrust, employment, discrimination, and breach of contract matters. She has consulted on numerous class action engagements and testified regarding labor market conditions and lost earnings. Erica’s research and experience have focused on the nexus between regulation, housing markets, and wage and employment outcomes. Her research has been published in the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs and Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Greg focuses on financial and economic issues in complex international disputes. He has worked on projects spanning a wide range of industries, including renewable energy, oil and gas, power, telecommunications, mining, manufacturing, and banking. His experience is global, with past cases in North America, South America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He has served as a valuation/damages expert in ICSID and ICC disputes. Clients have remarked on Greg’s strong attention to detail, focused involvement in every project, and ability to convey complex quantum issues in an easy-to-understand manner.
Zack has more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry, specializing in dispute resolution, delay analysis, scheduling, claims, project controls, and construction and project management. He has provided expert services to owners and contractors across a wide range of projects worldwide. His work includes airports, petrochemical plants, light-rail projects, refineries, water treatment plants, government buildings, salvage operations, highways, and commercial mixed-use facilities. Earlier in his career, Zack was a field engineer and construction manager working internationally on several multi-billion-dollar projects.
Gareth has nearly 20 years of experience working on major international construction, engineering, and energy projects, specializing in dispute resolution and forensic investigation of quantum claims. He has worked on projects of varying size and complexity in numerous sectors, including buildings, civil engineering, infrastructure, off-shore oil & gas facilities, marine, and process works. He has been appointed quantum expert in litigation, adjudication, and mediation proceedings. Gareth regularly provides advice and opinion on matters concerning variations, defective works, delay, acceleration, disruption, termination, costs to complete, and final accounts.
Tony’s professional experience includes advising owners, contractors, and stakeholders on matters that include project controls, scheduling/programming, contract disputes, and claims. He has been appointed as an independent expert on scheduling/programming and project delay on construction disputes in arbitration, litigation, and mediation. Tony’s extensive expertise in critical path method (CPM) scheduling/programming makes him a trusted expert for project delay claims and disputes, including analyses related to delay, disruption, productivity, time impacts, acceleration, and other project management and construction issues.
Michael is a chartered quantity surveyor specializing in providing quantum expert opinions on construction and engineering-related disputes. He is skilled at applying quantity surveying principles to the valuation of high-value claims, often with complex factual matrices such as disruption, escalation of costs, defective works, and the re-procurement and completion of works following termination. He draws on over 15 years of experience from major construction and engineering projects in most global regions and across multiple industry sectors, including energy, aviation, rail, highways, and utilities.
Ivy has more than 15 years of experience in business valuation, damages quantification, financial advisory, forensic investigations, and commercial litigation and disputes. She has worked with privately-owned and publicly-traded companies on a variety of matters, including breach of contract disputes, post-transaction disputes, business interruption claims, breach of fiduciary duties, and suspected corporate and employee wrongdoing. This includes the preparation of numerous damages quantification analyses and expert reports for a wide range of loss claims, including those in the multi-billion-dollar range. Additionally, Ivy has performed extensive forensic accounting investigations for companies with complex organizational structures.
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