News | May 27, 2025
Secretariat Announces Newest Managing Directors
Congratulations to our recently promoted Managing Directors: Deven Bowles, Erica Greulich, Greg Johnson, Zack Kilgore, Gareth McDermott, Tony Nedinsky, Michael Pogue, and Ivy Tse.
Mr. Mantel has significant experience with heavy civil contractors on major infrastructure projects, including roads and bridges, mass transit, earthwork, marine and dams. His expertise extends to project management and controls, estimating, and change order management.
David Mantel has more than 25 years of experience with leading heavy civil contractors managing every phase of large and complex infrastructure projects throughout North America. Mr. Mantel has substantial experience and expertise in critical path scheduling and delay analysis, cost tracking and project accounting, assessment of productivity losses, quantifying damages, change order management, differing site condition impacts, and developing requests for equitable adjustments and claims for time and costs.
Mr. Mantel has managed all aspects of project execution, including estimating, preconstruction, design coordination and management, construction management, critical path scheduling, cost tracking and controls, progress reporting, quality, safety, client and stakeholder coordination, and change management. His deep industry experience includes state and federal government contracts for roads, bridges, levees, locks, privately owned toll roads, marine construction, and mass transit. Mr. Mantel has managed and executed projects using various project delivery methods, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, EPC, CM at Risk, P3, and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI).
Secretariat Announces Newest Managing Directors
Congratulations to our recently promoted Managing Directors: Deven Bowles, Erica Greulich, Greg Johnson, Zack Kilgore, Gareth McDermott, Tony Nedinsky, Michael Pogue, and Ivy Tse.
Guardians of Finance Integrity
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) has cemented its role as a global financial watchdog, using its influence to safeguard the integrity of the U.S. dollar and the broader international financial system. Recent regulatory actions related to Iraq and Libya demonstrate a proactive approach to combating illicit financial flows, setting a precedent for oversight in other high-risk jurisdictions, including Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Ukraine, which are likely to undergo major post-conflict reconstruction.
Jury Trial Victory for Marathon Oil Co. in Landmark $123.7M Force Majeure Case
Managing Director Bob Broxson provided expert reports, deposition, and trial testimony on behalf of Marathon Oil Co. in a high-stakes, precedent-setting contract dispute arising from a natural gas delivery impeded in 2021 by Winter Storm Uri.