Mr. Sowards has more than 34 years experience in consulting with clients on a variety of managerial and dispute resolution matters. Over the course of his career, Mr. Sowards has performed and supervised hundreds of investigations of businesses in a variety of industries including: banking, construction, energy, manufacturing, and real estate, among others. He has served as the court appointed Claims Administrator and Distribution Agent for numerous securities fraud disputes and has worked for receivers, examiners, and other agents of the court. The types of matters for which Mr. Sowards has been retained to provide expert services include: professional malpractice, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, business interruption, construction, director and officer liability, intellectual property, securities and commodities fraud, and white collar fraud and embezzlement. He has rendered expert testimony in state and federal courts, bankruptcy courts, and in arbitration proceedings. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of damages and investigative accounting techniques. Prior to founding Veritas, Mr. Sowards held consulting positions with Navigant Consulting, Inc., The Barrington Consulting Group, and Peterson & Co.

Mr. Nagorzanski is a founding member of Veritas and has more than 30 years of experience with financial, economic, construction, scheduling, and statistical matters. He has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. He has provided training and served as a conference instructor related to various aspects of construction scheduling, construction claims, forensic investigations, valuation, and damage issues. To provide solutions to contractors, owners, sureties, lenders, manufacturers, subcontractors, and design professionals, Mr. Nagorzanski has calculated costs-to-complete and assessed the time required to complete troubled projects. He has analyzed and calculated the impact of delay, disruption, and acceleration events. He has performed investigations of contractors to determine financial status, profitability, ability to perform, effectiveness of controls, and use of contract funds. Mr. Nagorzanski has consulted with counsel and clients on matters such as securities fraud, forensic investigations, professional malpractice, business valuation, lender liability, business interruption, lost profits, bankruptcy, intellectual property, breach of contract, construction claims, surety bond claims, and fraud investigations. He prepared and defended lost profits claims utilizing market considerations, statistical results, historical parameters, and future projections. He has performed event studies, and developed statistical models to predict stock price movements. He has utilized numerous techniques to value business, securities, intellectual property, and various damage claim components.

Mr. Bright is a founding member of Veritas and a nationally recognized expert in the construction industry with more than 35 years experience in contract administration, scheduling, estimating, and consulting. Mr. Bright has provided assistance to clients on such issues as delay, disruption, proper construction management, defective work, surety bond claims, termination, and damages. Encompassing a wide variety of projects, his endeavors have included power plants, pipelines, airports, petrochemical facilities, mass transit, sports arenas, prisons, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, high-rise office buildings, theme parks, and road construction. Mr. Bright has managed a variety of commercial matters involving such issues as breach of contract, investment fraud, embezzlement, bankruptcy, franchise disputes, and loss of profit issues. His engagements have spanned a variety of business interests including manufacturing, product distribution, cable television, real estate, shipping, and construction. Mr. Bright has prepared and evaluated numerous economic models for the purposes of analyzing and quantifying damages. Mr. Bright has rendered expert testimony on construction matters and on economic damages in state and federal courts, as well as in both domestic arbitration and international construction arbitration proceedings. Prior to Veritas, Mr. Bright was a director with Peterson Barrington, and a founding partner of The Barrington Consulting Group. Additionally, he has held positions as a consultant with Peterson & Co. and as an internal auditor and engineer with Austin Industries.