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.
Batteries & Energy Storage
Batteries are essential to nearly every aspect of modern life. From everyday consumer electronics like smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches to household products such as power tools, vacuums, and heaters, and even critical applications like medical devices, electric vehicles, and utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), batteries power the technologies we rely on.
Whether it’s alkaline, lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride, or lead-acid batteries, each chemistry comes with its own unique performance characteristics and use cases. At Secretariat, our engineering consultants provide expert support across the entire battery product lifecycle, from design and manufacturing to deployment, diagnostics, and end-of-life considerations.
With hands-on experience in both the production and real-world application of batteries, our team brings deep technical insight into battery performance, safety, failure analysis, and quality assurance.
Areas of Expertise
Battery & Pack Design and Validation
Designing and validating modern battery systems requires a careful balance of safety, performance, and manufacturability. From concept through DVP&R planning and execution, we draw on direct experience with new product introduction (NPI) cells, lab development, and OEM-level validation. Our guidance ensures your product stands up to real-world demands.
Materials for Energy Storage
Battery performance hinges on decisions made at the materials level. We provide insight into active materials, electrolytes, separators, and interfaces, helping clients solve degradation issues, compare chemistries, and scale R&D innovations. Our approach combines lab knowledge, electrochemistry fundamentals, and real-world application needs.
Facility & Technology Safety Assessments
Establishing or expanding battery operations involves critical safety and process considerations. We offer independent assessments of lab and facility design, abuse and thermal risk protocols, and process workflows. Whether you are building a test lab or auditing production readiness of a supplier, we help make sure safety and efficiency go hand-in-hand.
Technology Evaluation
With battery innovation moving fast, it is not always clear which technologies or claims will hold up under pressure. We can support investors, acquirers, and internal teams with technical due diligence, benchmarking, and roadmap reviews, helping you make informed decisions grounded in hands-on engineering experience.
Fractional Technical Leadership
For organizations in need of deep battery expertise without a full-time hire, we offer fractional leadership across validation, testing, and program execution. Whether bridging a capability gap or driving a new initiative, we integrate quickly, lead effectively, and bring structure and clarity to complex technical programs.
Battery Failure Analysis
When batteries underperform, swell, leak, or burn, the root cause can be complex and multifactorial. We conduct in-depth failure analyses on cells, modules, and packs to identify mechanical, electrical, chemical, and thermal failure modes. Drawing from real-world incident data and lab diagnostics, we help clients understand what went wrong—and how to prevent it in the future. Whether supporting safety investigations, product recalls, or quality improvements, our findings are grounded in rigorous engineering and materials science expertise.
Expert Witness Services
Whether it be battery failures, intellectual property disputes, or product claims in legal actions, we provide independent expert witness support grounded in deep industry experience. We work closely with the clients to deliver clear, defensible, independent technical analysis and testimony across a wide range of energy storage matters.
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Asset Tracing and Recovery
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Auctions & Bargaining
From airwave spectrum rights to mineral rights and more, markets today depend on auctions, and potential bidders in these high-stakes auctions rely on sophisticated analysis and expert guidance to be successful.
Brokerage Compliance and Disputes
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Business Intelligence
Secretariat delivers actionable business intelligence, combining advanced research tools with our extensive global network of trusted local sources. Our expertise enables clients to uncover critical insights, mitigate risk, and make informed decisions in high-stakes situations. Our mission is to deliver strategic business intelligence with integrity, empowering clients to navigate complex challenges through trusted insights, rigorous […]
Class Actions
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Construction Delay
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Construction Fraud
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Construction Quantum
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Damages & Valuations
With proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, Secretariat experts provided extensive guidance on domestic and international matters involving commercial damages and disputes.
Data Analytics & Strategy
Secretariat’s experts and advisors address complex data challenges involved in disputes, investigations, and litigation.
Digital Forensics & eDiscovery
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Engineering Sciences
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Financial Crimes
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Financial Reporting and Securities Fraud
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Forensic Accounting
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Independent Compliance Monitoring
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Intellectual Property
Secretariat’s experts have an unparalleled depth of experience providing analysis, opinions, and testimony in high-stakes patent litigation, proceedings at the International Trade Commission, and strategic advisory engagements. Our expertise in patents extends beyond litigation and disputes, to advising clients on licensing negotiations, valuation, patent monetization strategies, product forecasting, and launch analyses.
International Arbitration
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International Trade and Sanctions
Secretariat assists multinational corporations and their counsel in conducting internal investigations, forensic analysis, and regulatory compliance reviews to address DOJ, OFAC, and BIS enforcement actions related to international trade and sanctions issues.
Investigations & Disputes
Suspicions or allegations of corporate misdeeds can cause tremendous harm and disruption to any organization. At Secretariat, our decades of experience drilling down to the facts can provide the confidence to know risks can be managed and challenges addressed and overcome.
Labor & Employment
Parties in labor and employment disputes – in cases brought by individuals or as class actions – depend on independent and verifiable economic analyses to support their positions. The experts at Secretariat have decades of experience analyzing claims, valuing damages, and turning large volumes of data into litigation support that clients and courts can readily understand and trust.
Mechanical Engineering
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Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A transactions are among the most complex business activities from every perspective: financial, competitive, regulatory, and beyond. The bigger the parties, the more exponentially complex the transactions. From providing objective valuations and economic clarity to helping clients navigate regulatory investigations, Secretariat has a long history of advising both buyers and sellers in many industries in the U.S. and across the globe in some of the largest and most complex M&A transactions.
Metallurgy & Materials Science
Metals, plastics, composites, and other engineering materials shape the modern-day world in which we live. From the steel used to build awe-inspiring skyscrapers and concrete supporting major infrastructure works, down to the elements that enable consumer electronics and nanotechnologies, we rely on materials in all ways big and small. While these materials shape the world […]
Regulatory & Public Policy
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Risk Advisory
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Securities & Finance
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