Today, Navigant (NYSE: NCI) announced the promotion of 11
professionals to managing director.
“We congratulate these leaders, who have served clients with
tenacity, integrity, and excellence. By leading with purpose, they
have found innovative solutions to complex challenges that make a
meaningful impact for our clients,” said Julie Howard, chairman and
chief executive officer. “Each of these professionals is recognized
for their knowledge, strategic counsel, and leadership in the
market. They are an important part of Navigant’s success, and we
look forward to their continued contributions.”
Disputes, Forensics, and Legal Technology:
John Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa.
Byrne has more than 15 years of Navigant experience consulting
within the construction sector for a wide variety of client needs.
He has extensive experience in delivering large, complex
engagements in the oil and gas, power, and heavy civil industries,
and has successfully managed project teams on numerous multimillion
dollar consulting engagements on multibillion dollar construction
projects in the U.S. and international markets. Byrne joined
Navigant from the construction industry, where he managed many
large, successful projects for both contractors and owners in the
heavy civil and petroleum markets. He is regularly involved in our
clients’ active construction programs, providing advice and
guidance surrounding risk management and mitigation efforts.
J. Mark Farrar, Atlanta, Ga.
Farrar joined Navigant in 2008 and he currently advises clients
globally on complex issues such as financial accounting
investigations, white-collar crime, off-label marketing
allegations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters, False Claims
Act damage calculations, violations of the Stark Law and the
Anti-Kickback Statute, embezzlements, sales and marketing
compliance, global transparency laws and regulations, as well as
various auditing and monitoring assessments. For the past year,
Farrar has been serving as the interim global chief compliance
officer for a major medical device and diagnostics company, where
he has helped to build the compliance program and establish a
global compliance team.
Energy:
Benjamin Grunfeld, Toronto, Ontario
Grunfeld is a trusted adviser to senior leaders across the
energy sector value chain globally, including utilities,
independent power companies, manufacturers, regulators, and
governments. Since 2012, Grunfeld has been a leading member of
Navigant’s Global Energy segment in Canada, and has worked to grow
the Canadian business by over 30 percent annually in each of the
past three years. Grunfeld has consulting project experience in the
areas of strategy and operations, mergers and acquisitions, project
development and finance, regulatory economics, as well as energy
market and energy policy design. He is a recognized expert on the
energy sector in Canada and has served as an expert witness in
regulatory and civil matters.
Constantin von Wentzel, Burlington, Mass.
Von Wentzel joined Navigant in 2006 and has nearly 20 years of
manufacturing strategy and technical cost modeling experience.
Currently, he leads the Energy practice’s efforts in technology
testing and evaluation. He directs value engineering studies and
manufacturability evaluations to estimate the manufacturing costs
of components, products, and systems to determine least-cost design
solutions. Von Wentzel is the founder of Navigant’s test facility
in Woburn, MA, where his team performs laboratory tests on systems
and components used in buildings and industry to support the
development of new test methods and performance standards, and to
calibrate analytical models of product performance.
Gregory Wikler, San Francisco, Calif.
Wikler has more than 30 years of experience consulting in the
energy sector, including the last three years at Navigant. His work
has focused on demand-side resources, including energy efficiency,
demand response, distributed generation, and smart grid programs
for the electric and gas industries. During his career, Wikler has
conducted national, regional, and utility-specific market potential
studies, technology assessments, program designs, economic
assessments, and evaluation studies. His major clients include a
number of electric and gas utilities and regulatory agencies
throughout North America. In addition, he advises a number of
foreign governments on demand-side strategies.
Financial Services, Advisory, and Compliance:
Kevin Caulfield, New York, N.Y.
Caulfield has more than 15 years of experience in Bank Secrecy
Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, and has led
large teams of professionals in performing monitorships, regulatory
compliance gap analysis, and risk assessments of both domestic and
foreign financial institutions. He also has helped design AML
policies, procedures, and training programs for multiple large
financial service companies. Prior to joining Navigant, Caulfield
was a director in a Big Four accounting firm, where he provided
BSA/AML services to financial institutions, as well as performed
forensic accounting reviews and fraud investigations regarding the
misappropriation of assets.
Patrick McArdle, New York, N.Y.
With 20 years of experience in regulatory compliance,
consulting, and law enforcement, McArdle specializes in BSA and AML
compliance, fraud prevention, and forensic accounting
investigations. McArdle has been selected to act as co-manager of
the monitor team chosen by a regulatory agency to oversee a large
financial institution. He is specifically tasked with the
validation of the institution’s AML transaction-monitoring program
and systems, as well as its sanctions program. Additionally, he
leads a project on behalf of federal and state prosecutors’ offices
ensuring a financial institution adheres to its deferred
prosecution agreements. Prior to joining Navigant, McArdle was a
senior special investigator for enforcement at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York.
Timothy Mueller, New York, N.Y.
Mueller is a member of Navigant’s Global Investigations and
Compliance practice. He leads the technology and data analytics
team, which focuses on assisting clients with selection,
implementation, and review of AML and sanctions screening
technology platforms. His team works with clients to: evaluate
systems governance; review risk coverage for transaction monitoring
detection scenarios and sanctions name-matching algorithms; perform
system tuning to maximize effectiveness while minimizing false
positives; perform model validation projects for AML and sanctions
systems; and support data handling and analytics for large scale
file and transaction reviews.
Healthcare:
Ravi Degun, London, UK
Degun has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare and
life sciences consulting and R&D. His main areas of focus are
R&D and commercial strategy, market access/pricing and
reimbursement, real-world data. In addition he focuses on
non-interventional studies for major and emerging biological,
pharmaceutical, and medical-device companies, government, and the
European healthcare sector. His background is in medical research
focusing on virology and immunology, and he spent four years at
leading medical research institutes and hospitals including the
Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research
and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
Remi Kajogbola, Suwanee, Ga.
Kajogbola is a strategy-focused senior business leader with
nearly three decades of experience in healthcare consulting. During
his three years with Navigant, he has developed and led large,
high-performance organizations to solve complex and strategic
challenges across geographic regions. He is adept at providing
clear direction and leadership in a changing environment, with a
thorough understanding of the healthcare economics and market
opportunities. Kajogbola currently plays a leading role in
Navigant’s growth by leveraging solutions and collective experience
to position the right experts and teams to address strategic and
operational challenges for select highly effective provider
clients.
Anne Smart, New York, N.Y.
Smart has more than 20 years of global leadership experience
across the healthcare industry gained from management positions in
biopharmaceuticals, hospital administration, and strategy
consulting. Since 2012, she has been a leading member of
Navigant’s Life Sciences practice and has leveraged her clinical
background, industry, and provider-side experience to transform
Navigant’s market position in the medtech industry. Smart currently
supports medical device, diagnostic, and health technology
companies by developing innovative market access strategies in both
established and emerging markets. She also has extensive
experience in advising global medtech and private equity companies
in connection with business transactions and commercial due
diligence efforts.
About Navigant
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global
professional services firm that helps clients take control of their
future. Navigant’s professionals apply deep industry knowledge,
substantive technical expertise, and an enterprising approach to
help clients build, manage, and/or protect their business
interests. With a focus on markets and clients facing
transformational change and significant regulatory or legal
pressures, the firm primarily serves clients in the healthcare,
energy, and financial services industries. Across a range of
advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and technology/analytics
services, Navigant’s practitioners bring sharp insight that
pinpoints opportunities and delivers powerful results. More
information about Navigant can be found at navigant.com.
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