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.
Rick Eichmann is a trusted economic expert with more than 25 years of experience and a strong record of testifying in complex commercial litigation and arbitration. He has deep expertise in damages analysis, IP, commercial, and class action disputes across a wide range of industries, including automotive, airline, energy, credit card, gaming, life sciences, and technology.
San Francisco
Known for his clarity and analytical rigor, Rick Eichmann is an in-demand testifying expert with a successful track record—his opinions have never been excluded in federal court. He combines advanced analytic methods with business insight to deliver clear, defensible results in high-stakes matters.
Mr. Eichmann has filed expert reports and provided testimony in federal and state courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations. His testimony spans a range of complex commercial disputes and reflects deep command of statistical methods, sampling, survey design, business valuation, and econometrics as they relate to the quantification of damages and lost profits.
Prior to joining Secretariat, Mr. Eichmann was a Senior Managing Director at a global economic consulting firm, where he served as Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property practice and Head of its San Francisco office. He led high-profile engagements across a wide range of industries, providing economic damages and dispute advisory services. His earlier experience includes roles at a boutique litigation consulting firm and two Big 4 accounting firms. He also worked as an analyst in the automotive industry, applying proprietary survey data to time series modeling, and as a research assistant at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, focusing on large-scale panel survey studies.
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.