Nuclear Energy Expert Witnesses

Ole E. Haaland, PE, has thirty four years experience in Power Production, Design, Construction, and Commissioning, with 30+ years managing people and projects. Mr. Haaland's experience is in conventional, nuclear, and alternate fuel power plant mechanical and electrical systems. He has performed as Project Manager, Construction Manager, and Commissioning Manager for several Greenfield power projects.

Mr. Haaland held a senior reactor power operator's license and a number of senior engineering positions at the New York Power Authority prior to joining ANNA. Mr. Haaland received his BSME from the New York Institute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer in many states. He was recently elected to the EGSA Board of Directors for 2015-2017.

Litigation Support - Ole Haaland conducts root cause analysis investigations for counsel representing Plaintiff and Defense. When needed, he provides expert witness testimony for power plant design, construction, and operational failure issues and for parties involved in contract disputes.

Areas of Expertise:

Switchgear Voltage Regulators Turbine Generators Control Systems Hydro Generators Diesel Generators

Condensate Polishers Feed Water Heaters Main Condensers Moisture Separators Electrical Breaker Failures Operational Failures

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Thomas J. McNulty, CQF, FRM, MBA, has 25 years of experience working across the entire Commodity and Energy Value Chain.  Mr. McNulty draws on a rare combination of industry, banking, consulting, and government experience to provide his clients with transaction, commercial analytics, litigation, and valuation opinion services. He is a nationally recognized commodity and energy industry expert and is a frequent contributor on CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV. 

As an advisor, and in his corporate career, Mr. McNulty has delivered more than $52 billion in energy-related transactions, valuation, restructuring, and litigation projects.  He has also advised on, or executed, $13 billion in M&A and principal investment deals, and executed or valued more than $14 billion notional in derivative instruments.  As a merchant banker, Mr. McNulty helps management teams grow businesses through acquisitions. He provides introductions to private capital sources, including family offices, and advises clients on valuation, risk management, and transaction structuring issues. 

Areas of Expertise:

• Commodity Hedge Funds - Fund of Funds, Principal Investment Funds, Credit / Distress Fund
• Oilfield Services & Equipment - Onshore and Offshore Rigs, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Disposal, Marine / OSVs
• Energy Technology and Intellectual Property
• Distributed Energy Resources and Generation
• Energy Trading & Marketing, Risk Management, and Settlements
• LNG Projects 
• Oil and Gas – Upstream and Midstream - Exploration & Production, Pipeline, Natural Gas Storage, Mineral/Oil/Gas Rights and Royalties, Rail/Truck/Barge Transport
  
•  Power Generation, Transmission, & Distribution Regulated generation, Merchant plants Simple Cycle Gas Plants Combined Cycle Gas Plants, Cogeneration/CHP, Nuclear Fuels and Generation, Retail Power and Gas LDCs, and PPAs
• Downstream-Refined Products & Specialty Chemicals
• Renewable Energy Projects - Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydro

Litigation Support: Mr. McNulty's oil, natural gas, and power experience across several critical disciplines, he also provides expert consulting and testifying services in support of complex commercial litigation, particularly when commodities, energy, M&A, derivative instruments, financial analysis, investment returns, shareholder disputes, hedging, damage assessments, and valuations are critical components of the case.

Background Experience - Mr. McNulty studied military and diplomatic history at Yale, where he was a varsity football letterman.  Following graduation, he went to work on Wall Street with Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. (“BBH”), the nation’s oldest private bank. He was a Federal funds and Eurodollar trader, and also worked in the bank’s international treasury department. During his time with BBH, Mr. McNulty was selected for training in the elite US Foreign Service, and was commissioned a Foreign Service Officer in November 1990. Volunteering for critical threat postings, he served tours of duty in Southeast Asia and in Russia.  He was also a Staff Officer at headquarters in Washington DC, where he worked on energy security issues. He left the Foreign Service to pursue his MBA at Northwestern University, where he studied Analytical Finance and Accounting.

Following business school, Mr. McNulty moved to Houston and worked with three Fortune 100 energy companies: Enron International, Duke Energy, and Plains All American.  At all three companies he worked on the M&A teams and in Corporate Treasury. These roles involved transaction due diligence, strategic planning, corporate finance, risk management, and market analysis responsibilities. His career has also included substantial cross-border work in Asia, Europe, and in Latin America.  His corporate experience, in particular, enhances his ability to advise clients with complex transactions, litigation, valuation, and business strategy challenges.  More specifically, Mr. McNulty is an expert in treasury operations, post-merger integration, and value harvesting. 

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Geoffrey Beresford Hartwell is a Chartered Engineer who practices as an Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Expert for Determination. Geoffrey is the former Senior Partner of Consulting Mechanical and Electrical Engineers BHA Cromwell House.

A one time Chairman of the Expert Witness Society, Geoffrey Hartwell has experience giving evidence in court (in both civil and criminal matters) and in International Arbitration. He sometimes is retained as a Single Joint Expert or as a Tribunal Expert. His services are offered to both Plaintiff and Defense. Even when retained on behalf of a Client he, like all Experts, has an overriding responsibility to the Court or Tribunal.

After his early career in aerospace and nuclear energy, Geoffrey entered private practice in association with the late Leslie Heap and Gerald Lewis of Heap and Digby, Consulting Engineers, in 1969. While with them he designed water and sewage equipment and also the bascule moving machinery for the Lowestoft Bridge, in Suffolk. He practiced also as Beresford Hartwell and Associates and, in 1971 established a separate office in Wallington, South London.

In parallel with his design career, Geoffrey was first appointed as arbitrator in 1972 and his first foreign arbitration, an ICC appointment in Switzerland, took place later that year. He studied Law to Intermediate level and then transferred to the examinations of the Institute of Arbitrators (now Chartered) of which he became Chairman in 1996-1997 and for whom he taught in various countries on several courses, including the prestigious Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration.

Technical Expertise:

Electrical Engineering and Design Mechanical Engineering and Design Instrumentation Automation and Computer Control Systems Maritime and Infrastructure Engineering Process Engineering Solid Waste Handling

Communications Manufacturing Computer Cartography Moving Bridges and Lock Gates Construction Project Management Nuclear Energy Water and Waste Water Treatment

Arbitration: Geoffrey Hartwell also acts as an arbitrator and adjudicator, as an expert mediator and conciliator, as an expert investigator and assessor for arbitral tribunals, and also as a Special Referee in the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man. His services have been required in the UK and internationally.

Dispute Boards: Geoffrey Hartwell has experience both as Member and as Chairman of Dispute Boards?. He has been a member of Dispute Boards, retained from the beginning of a project or, alternatively, appointed on an ad hoc basis when a problem arises, Dispute Adjudication Boards to determine a binding decision, and on Dispute Review Boards to make decisions that are advisory but not binding.

Adjudication: Similar to arbitration, Mr. Hartwell adjudicates domestic and international disputes which are only temporarily binding unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties.

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Over 35 years of experience in Mechanical / Structural Engineering & Design, Failure Analysis, Product Liability, Industural Asbestos,Pressure Vessel & Boiler analysis and evaluation of mechanical and structural components.

Extensive trial experience. Has been involved in multi-million dollar cases. Areas involved included:

- Piping & pipe supports - Structural failure of products - Failure analysis - Industrial asbestos - Seismic analysis - Fire protection - Pressure vessels

- Tanks - Construction - Heat transfer analysis - Environmental qualification of equipment - Welding - Product design - Patent information

Expertise in developing litigation rate-case exhibits and detailed supporting testimony, and in organizing case documentation into easy-to-use computer databases for trial use.