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Ray Bummer Related Seminars and Products

Gleason

Ray has nearly 25 years of experience in public accounting and corporate environments, both domestically and internationally. He leads various litigation support, management consulting, and intellectual property engagements across a wide range of industries.  He has significant experience in litigation support across a broad set of engagements ranging from breach of contract, fraud investigations and intellectual property matters. He has performed numerous business valuation engagements related to financial securities and privately held companies.  

In the area of intellectual property, Ray has led engagements addressing the calculation of lost profits associated with patent infringement and has also extensive experience in the analysis of secondary indicia of nonobviousness in support of patent infringement matters.  He  has also assisted corporate executive management in the assessment and due diligence associated with strategic decision-making. Ray has led numerous risk assessments focusing on the identification, measurement, mitigation, and reporting of critical risks faced by organizations.  Prior to joining the firm, Ray held executive leadership roles within two S&P 500 energy companies. As Chief Risk Officer at Allegheny Energy, Ray was part of an executive management team responsible for the financial stabilization and turn-around of a distressed integrated utility with both regulated and unrelated merchant operations. He was responsible for periodic reports to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors regarding all aspects of Enterprise Risk Management. He oversaw the corporation’s assessment and mitigation of exposures to market, credit, operational, and compliance risks.  Prior to his nine year tenure at Allegheny Energy and FirstEnergy, Ray worked as a consultant with both a “Big Four” accounting firm and as a partner in a start-up venture. During his seven years with Ernst & Young, LLC, Ray worked both domestically and on assignment in England.  He received his B.S., Economics, with a concentration in Finance and Accounting (magna cum laude) from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Matt Glover Related Seminars and Products

Prince Glover Hayes

Mr. R. Matthew Glover, originally from Charleston, West Virginia, earned his B.S. in
accounting in 1998 from Marshall University and his J.D. in 2002 from The University of Alabama School of Law. His primary practice is in bad faith litigation. Mr. Glover currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. He mentors and coaches future trial lawyers in courtroom procedure and the many elements of trial litigation.

Kelly Kennett Related Seminars and Products

Momentum PMV

Kelly Kennett specializes in the biomechanics of human injury and accident reconstruction, with emphasis on traumatic injuries related to transportation, recreation, and industry. His expertise includes the following areas: • Injury biomechanics—evaluation of injury severity, causation, and correlation with dynamic and static events. Inspection and analysis of vehicular restraint systems, protective gear, and other injury prevention and mitigation devices. Knowledge and application of motor vehicle and consumer product safety standards. • Reconstruction and investigation of incidents involving all types of vehicles, including on-  and off-road vehicles, recreational vehicles, boats, and industrial equipment. 

Before Momentum PMV, Mr. Kennett worked at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., ProAnalysis, Inc., and InSciTech, Inc.    He has also served as a researcher at the Automobile Safety Laboratory of the University of Virginia. He received his M.S. (Department of Mechanical Engineering) from University of Virginia in 995 and his B.S. (Aerospace Engineering)from the University of Virginia in 1994

Eric Rose Related Seminars and Products

EKA

Eric has more than three decades of experience advising companies, associations and individuals on various political, governmental and public relations issues. He is known nationally and internationally for his successful crisis management, reputation repair and communications expertise.  He offers a broad range of services to individuals, corporations and organizations, including labor relations, litigation support, issues advertising, visual communications, Q&A preparation for public hearings and testimony, media relations and media training. One of Eric’s most potent tools is his strength in interacting with the highest-level investigative reporters on behalf of his clients. Eric has served as a counselor to numerous Fortune 500 companies, trade unions and other organizations, interacting with senior leadership and advising them on corporate issues management, executive exposure and media relations.

Eric has amassed significant experience and expertise in aiding and counseling people, businesses and entities in trouble or conflict or harmed by negative communications that affected/damaged their name, goodwill, image, reputation, brand, etc.  For over a decade, clients have sought Eric as an expert source and analyst for mass media on crisis communications and issues involving damage to image or reputation.  Eric’s work with political and public-sector clients includes law enforcement, healthcare, energy, transportation, consumer goods, hospitality, leisure, and environmental management. Eric has experience in all major industries and a specialty practice serving public safety unions.

As a direct result of Eric’s involvement in many crisis communications situations, Eric has become the “go-to” person for perspective by the media to provide interpretation and analysis on issues and matters relating to those people, businesses, institutions, governments, etc., who are controversial, in conflict or trouble.  Eric is regularly sought by local, national and international media as an expert media source and analyst. The Los Angeles Times, PR News, Associated Press, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and many other media outlets have called Eric a crisis and reputation management expert and sought his insight regarding reputational issues. Eric serves as an expert witness in legal proceedings regarding defamation and image repair and has been a guest lecturer at various universities.