Mr. Brown holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering and an M.B.A. His experience includes marketing of engineering consulting services and management of engineering consulting operations. Additionally, he has been involved in technical sales and engineering of steel products to major appliance companies and international steel mills. Mr. Brown also designed subsea pipelines including installation, burial, and anchoring methods.

Mr. Brown has been employed with Rimkus since 1989. Since then, he has held several positions with Rimkus including Vice President of Operations and Marketing for the company’s district offices, President and CEO of Rimkus Consulting Group Inc., and most recently Chairman of the Board for Rimkus. During his tenure, he has provided significant contributions to the company’s rapid growth by developing and implementing strategic initiatives the directly led to Rimkus’ expansion.

As Chairman, Mr. Brown provides leadership to the Board of Directors to ensure that the company’s strategic initiatives, mission, and goals are achieved. Mr. Brown works closely with the Chief Executive Officer to establish business plans, company policies, and organizational culture. He also works with the Chief Financial Officer to monitor and assess the company’s financial management practices, reporting, and budgeting and evaluates business analytics and metrics to monitor overall performance of the company in achieving its mission. Mr. Brown also actively participates in a variety of business development activities.

Mr. Jonathan Higgins graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in civil engineering with an emphasis in structural engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Virginia.

Mr. Higgins has extensive experience in all phases of planning, design, and construction for a diverse list of project types including design/build, fast-track construction, and government projects. He has been a project manager for the design and construction management of semiconductor manufacturing facilities, multi-story office buildings, industrial, residential, and nuclear facilities. As well, he is trained in construction safety and quality control programs and is highly skilled in project scope, schedule, and budget management techniques.

Mr. Higgins has over 17 years of experience with Rimkus conducting forensic analysis of various building system and material failures. He has extensive experience with a variety of building envelope system installations and failures including all types of roofing systems, exterior wall cladding systems, foundation systems, and rare project experience with sensitive compartmented information facilities.

Mr. Higgins has evaluated origin and cause of a variety of structural failures including primary building structures, foundations, scaffolds, cranes, and other construction equipment. He has reviewed and facilitated resolution of a myriad of construction claims and disputes between contractors, owners, and designers. In addition, he has evaluated countless construction defect, design error or omissions, and general construction issues. An expert by experience and training, he has investigated numerous premises liability, slip/trip and falls, and construction accidents involving equipment, fall protection, personal protective equipment, and other types of construction and safety equipment.

Mr. Mark Barrow holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. He has experience in structural design, project management, construction administration, engineering management, fenestration product design, manufacturing operations management, and engineering forensics.

Mr. Barrow has extensive experience in structural design and design team project management involving post-tensioned concrete, reinforced concrete, structural steel, masonry, and wood-framed structures in the residential, commercial, industrial, and educational sectors. Mr. Barrow’s structural design experience covers a broad array of building types including high-value, single-family residential structures, high-rise residential structures, commercial retail facilities, commercial office buildings, warehouse facilities, educational buildings, and performing arts theaters. Mr. Barrow also served as an engineering and operations manager in the field of design, development, manufacturing, and testing of wind-loaded residential and commercial sectional and rolling doors and hurricane shutters. Mr. Barrow served as a member of the Door and Access Systems Manufacturers Association (DASMA) Commercial and Residential Garage Door Technical Committee responsible for code compliance and standards development for the commercial and residential garage door industry.

Mr. Barrow has extensive experience performing forensic investigation and analysis of storm-related damage, structural failures, structural fire damage, vibration damage, water damage, construction defects, structural design defects, vehicle impact damage, tree impact damage, building code and ADA accessibility code compliance, and premises liability evaluations. These investigations and analyses encompass numerous different types of structures and include floor failures, building settlement and/or collapse, moisture intrusions, wall and roof system failures, building envelope and cladding system deficiencies and failures, fenestration component deficiencies and failures, and pedestrian falls.

Mr. Jack Dolan has more than 25 years of experience in all phases of planning, design, and construction for a diverse list of projects ranging from business parks, to large-scale commercial and industrial facilities, to multi-family dwellings, as well as for bridge, infrastructure, and roadway projects at the federal, state, and municipal level. Individual project budgets were in excess of $20 million.

His experience has a strong focus on fast track, design/build projects, where he had complete project responsibilities including preparation of proposals, contracts, and cost estimates, generation of project schedules, awarding of subcontracts, and oversight of job site and office/engineering personnel. He is also trained and certified in construction safety and quality control programs.

Mr. Dolan’s experience also includes the structural design of reinforced concrete, steel, and wood buildings, bridge, and marine systems, design of water and sewer utility conveyance systems, design of commercial and residential marine facilities, hydraulic and hydrological modeling, and the design of roadways. He has also served as an expert witness on construction accident litigation and contractor standard of care assignments, as well as complex construction disputes. Additionally, he has investigated building settlement and collapse, fire, snow, earthquake, and wind damage evaluations, concrete failure analysis, concrete and masonry cracking, retaining wall and bulkhead distress, joist and truss failures, construction vibration analysis and monitoring, underground utility failures, moisture intrusion through building envelopes, roofing system failures, and tile floor failures.

Mr. Dolan is highly experienced in the application of the OSHA regulations, International Building Codes, ASCE for wind and seismic loads, and design specifications ACI for concrete, PCI for pre-cast concrete, AISC for steel, SJI for steel joists, SDI for steel decks, and NDS for wood.

Mr. Webster is a Quantity Surveyor with substantial construction and engineering experience. His background includes work with construction companies in various grades of quantity surveying and commercial management roles, culminating Managing Director role. In 2000, Mr. Webster started to focus on claims and dispute resolution and became the CEO of a global practice where he gained experience in construction and engineering disputes across the UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, and Asia Pacific. He has acted as the appointed expert in quantum matters in litigation and international arbitration as well as on matters in front of dispute review boards. Mr. Webster has an established reputation for working alongside clients and their lawyers in generating and successfully implementing dispute resolution strategies across a wide range of sectors.

Mr. Webster’s major construction project experience involves tunnels, pipelines, water and wastewater treatment works, process plants, power plants, highways, rail, high-voltage (HV) and low-voltage (LV) transmission, hospitals, schools, and high-rise developments. He also has specific experience related to Private Public Partnership (PPP)/ Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes, professional indemnity claims, and loss assessments on contractors/engineers all risk claims.

Mr. Poland graduated from The University of Texas School of Law (with honors) and received his undergraduate degree from Rice University (summa cum laude). He is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and specializes in transactional law, commercial litigation, and the various legal sectors intersecting the company’s services. His legal articles have been published in The Texas Bar Journal, The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, and the ABA’s national trial law journal, Litigation, and have been cited by respected judicial authorities including The Supreme Court of Virginia. He served as an attorney for The First Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas, for several years after law school.

Mr. Poland actively represented Rimkus as outside counsel from 2010 – 2017, then joined the company in late 2017 as in-house counsel. As General Counsel, Mr. Poland provides legal guidance to the company, oversees risk management, and applies his broad knowledge of Rimkus’s services, current and historical, in his strategies and solutions to upper management.

Vanessa Britton is a global marketing leader with more than 15 years of experience in marketing, strategic communications, client relations, and program development spanning multiple industries. She partners with executive leadership to drive marketing strategy, communications, and to support brand awareness.

Ms. Britton joined Rimkus in 2012, holding several pivotal roles within the company and guiding the strategic growth of the Marketing department. At the helm of this international team, she magnified internal and external marketing initiatives and scaled the marketing and communications efforts to support the expansion of Rimkus’ family of brands and services. Ms. Britton played a lead role in the company’s 2022 rebrand and oversaw the integration of multiple entities into one unified brand.

Driving innovation and digital transformation while preserving an empowered team environment continues to be a focus and passion throughout Ms. Britton’s career. She led the development and standardization of an industry-leading e-learning program offering continuing education opportunities to clients, drove digital marketing strategy and brand awareness for a myriad of organizations leading to increased visibility and revenue, created standard operating procedures for marketing workstreams, and designed and implemented marketing platforms to improve efficiency and support rapid growth.

Ms. Britton values interpersonal relationships and is passionate about fostering an inclusive work culture where all team members can collaborate and grow in a professional capacity to meet their goals. She serves as a mentor to graduate students and is an active member of the American Management Association and American Marketing Association. She studied advertising at Texas Tech University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in communication and media studies from the University of Houston-Downtown.

Akif Ahmad joined Rimkus in January of 2023 to lead the company’s finance organization. He partners with the executive leadership team and the board of directors to allocate capital, set financial objectives, measure performance, and lead strategic projects to drive enterprise value.

Prior to joining Rimkus, Mr. Ahmad held a variety of financial leadership positions in the service, engineering, manufacturing, and energy industries, including public and private equity portfolio companies. Beginning his career at the global accounting firm of Ernst & Young, Mr. Ahmad is experienced in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, integration, financial planning, reporting, corporate governance, treasury management, capital raising, and corporate restructuring. Most recently, he functioned as the Executive Vice President of Finance at Neovia Logistics, a Goldman Sachs and Rhone Capital Company, where he oversaw strategy, finance, treasury, and M&A. His prior experience also includes serving as the Vice President of Corporate Development at TechnipFMC.

Mr. Ahmad holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in business administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.

Mr. Dahman is a global Information Technology (IT) leader with more than 15 years of experience spanning IT disciplines across multiple industries including engineering, insurance, and aerospace/defense. He joined Rimkus in 2022 as their Chief Information Officer and leads all areas of IT, including enterprise applications, infrastructure, and security.

Mr. Dahman’s career-long key areas of focus and passion involve partnering with business leaders to understand their needs and develop an enterprise IT strategy and leveraging technology solutions to help drive business results and efficiencies while ensuring a secure environment. This includes work on custom development projects, enterprise resource planning (ERP), analytics, customer relationship management (CRM) deployments, human resource information system (HRIS) platforms, and agency management systems. Additionally, he has experience leading process improvement efforts leveraging technology to automate or reduce complexity in business processes and reduce costs. He has also led modernization initiatives around infrastructure and security with a cloud-first approach.

He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, which focuses on process efficiencies and project management. Mr. Dahman holds a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University.

Ms. Castillo graduated from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico with an M.B.A. and a concentration in human resources management. She is a certified Senior Human Resources Professional (SHRM-SCP) through the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) and a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) through the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI).

Beginning at a construction management firm in Puerto Rico, Ms. Castillo’s career comprises a variety of administrative roles, both in Puerto Rico and the United States, where she honed her business skills and acumen. Over a 20-year span, she maintained a steady career path within the construction and engineering sectors, ultimately narrowing her focus to forensic engineering and technical consulting.

Ms. Castillo joined Rimkus in 2011 and quickly ascended the ranks of the Human Resources department by providing an integral people-focused perspective to global projects, including support of the company’s progressive growth worldwide. Her experience embodies all functional areas of human resources, including employment law, talent acquisition, benefits management, payroll administration, retirement planning, corporate training, employee relations, and leadership coaching. Ms. Castillo is a dynamic communicator with superior interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to resolve complex human resource issues.

As Vice President, Human Resources, Ms. Castillo leads Rimkus’ international Human Resources group and works closely with executive leadership to establish company policies and guide organizational culture. She is dedicated to investing in human assets—the people comprising the global Rimkus team—and ensuring that every employee is supported, engaged, and committed to achieving organizational goals.