Liability Management
Neal Brody
Vice President / Technical DirectorLos Angeles, CA
424.832.1303
Mr. Brody has over 25 years experience working as an attorney and consultant on complex environmental matters with particular focus on economic costs and damages. His work has included the estimation and analysis of potential claims for natural resource damages, strategic counseling of alternative settlement positions in Superfund and natural resource damages cases, allocating response and natural resource damages costs among parties, estimating claims and exposure to claims in bankruptcy proceedings and developing best management practices to optimize environmental performance. Mr. Brody’s expertise encompasses environmental and health and safety issues and their application in contracts, mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions, as well as all forms of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Brody is routinely retained by counsel and corporations to provide advice and/or testimony in matters involving claims for or exposure to suits for natural resource damages. Mr. Brody holds a B.A. in Government from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law.
Gordon A. Robilliard, Ph.D.
Vice President / Technical DirectorGig Harbor, WA
253.858.2114
Dr. Robilliard’s primary areas of expertise encompass natural resource damage assessments for oil spills and contaminated sites, habitat restoration and ecological impact assessment in marine/estuarine ecosystems. He has more than 39 years of experience as a consulting scientist, mainly in marine and estuarine environments of the Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii and arctic coastal states. Dr. Robilliard is an early pioneer and a nationally recognized Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) expert who has been instrumental in the development and application of more than 75 NRDAs in oil spills since 1984, and more recently, at federal and state Superfund sites. He has been an integral member of several NRDA teams composed of lawyers, managers, economists, engineers, and scientists whose goal was strategic planning and/or settlement negotiations. He has testified or been deposed as a technical expert in oil and chemical spill cases, and provided testimony in numerous public hearings. He holds a B.S. in Biology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington.
Ralph Markarian, Ph.D.
Vice President / Technical DirectorNew Castle, DE
302.395.1919
Dr. Markarian has over 30 years of experience in ecological risk assessments and environmental toxicology. His expertise includes the design and management of natural resource damage assessments (NRDA), aquatic/ecological risk assessments and effluent toxicity assessment and toxicity reduction programs. Dr. Markarian has been the principal scientist in more than 20 complex NRDA cases. His experience in site assessments has included all aspects of the aquatic ecosystem including toxicity concerns, bioaccumulation of contaminants, food chain contamination and human risk associated with contaminated fish/shellfish. He has provided technical and strategic support for cases involving matters pertaining to the Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Dr. Markarian is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and has authored 40 peer-reviewed papers and numerous other articles. In addition, he has served as a scientific consultant to government agencies as well as industrial associations. He holds a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Rhode Island, an M.S. in Environmental Science from Washington State University, and a Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology from Pennsylvania State University.
Daniel R. Tormey, Ph.D., P.G.
Vice President / Senior Principal / Hydrogeologist / Geochemist / Civil EngineerLos Angeles, CA
424.832.1303
Dr. Tormey is an expert in hydrology, water supply, and water quality issues. More specifically, he specializes in water resource development; contamination issues; watershed protection programs; conservation programs; water treatment and desalination; human impacts to water resources; and the effects of climate change on water and ecosystems. He has worked in diverse environments around the world analyzing sediment transport, contaminant fate and transport, contaminant remediation, and coastal dynamics. Dr. Tormey is also an expert in the environmental aspects of energy and energy development—specifically the production, transport, use, and conservation of energy. He has been involved with a variety of hydroelectric, wind, solar, tidal, oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy projects, and has significant experience evaluating methods of carbon sequestration associated with energy production. His work frequently includes litigation support. Beyond his consulting work, Dr. Tormey actively pursues volcanology research around the world. He is an Executive in Residence at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, serves on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List review advisory board, and was appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to the Scientific Advisory Board for Giant Sequoia National Monument. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Geology from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Geology and Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chris Olson, C.P.G.
Senior Consultant - Land Asset ManagementBarrington, IL
847.277.2850
Mr. Olson is responsible for assisting large landowners and corporate clients with strategies and divestment solutions for environmentally challenged real estate portfolios. His extensive knowledge of impaired property transaction deal structuring, risk transfer mechanisms and assessment of properties for natural resource value streams and renewable energy opportunities is widely recognized throughout the industry. In his current role, he helps clients maximize their combined real estate, business and natural resource eco-asset values. Prior to ENTRIX, Mr. Olson spent 29 years in the petrochemical industry with Amoco/BP, most recently as Real Estate Reuse Manager. In this capacity, he managed the centralization and prioritization of non-operating land assets across the company’s diverse business lines, provided strategic advice to the operating businesses, and managed real estate transactions and associated environmental risk transfer strategies—ultimately placing more than 3,000 acres of BP’s environmentally impaired real estate back into the marketplace for new sustainable use. Other leadership responsibilities have included domestic and international oil and gas exploration, worldwide environmental compliance and management system audits, environmental permitting strategies, acquisition and divestment due diligence support, along with complex, multi-party environmental remediation projects and associated stakeholder relations. Mr. Olson is a Certified Professional Geologist, and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the National Brownfield Association, and RTM Communications. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Geology from Northern Illinois University.

