EECMA 2026 Annual Conference

Breakfast

• Compliments of our Sponsors

Welcome

• Kathleen Olear, Berkley Specialty Excess, EECMA President

40 Years of Environmental Action – How You Helped Restore the Environment and Improve Lives

• Alborz Wozniak, CEO and co-founder, Veritas Environmental Consulting, Inc.
• Peter Mintzer, Esq., Selman Leichenger Edson Hsu Newman & Moore, LLP
• Gregory Kelder, SVP and Head of Claims for Environmental Division of Great American Insurance Group

The Coverage Year in Review

• Patricia Santelle, Esq., White and Williams LLP

What is a Pollutant

• Chris Parenti, Environmental Claims Manager, Ironshore
• Kanan Sheth, VP Head of Claims Environmental and Constructions, Distinguished Properties
• Tori Spina, Senior Project Manager, The Vertex Companies
• Robert Muilenberg, Coughlin, Midlige, & Garland LLC

Break

Three P’s in a Pod: Plastic, PFAS, and Poo

• Jase Hixson, Antea Group
• Oliver Twaddell, Esq., Goldberg Segalla
• Yvette Nagdir, Senior Claims Manager Environmental Claims, Westfield Specialty Insurance

Minimizing the Rick in Environmental Emergency Response and Remediation Loss

• Jim Rothrock, Senior Geologist, HETI
• Russ Greatorex, Senior Environmental Scientist, HETI
• Steve Geydoshek, AVP of Environmental Claims, Allied World
• Kelly Stoltz, Esq., Partner, Nicolaides, Fink, Thorpe, Michaelides, Sullivan, LLP

We Paid to Remediate – Now When Does It End?

• Bill Silverstein, Technical Consultant, GEI Consultants
• Seth Kagan, VP – Head of Environmental Casualty and Hazard Claims, Sompo North America
• Martin Shelton, Esq., Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, LLP
• Lynndon Groff, Esq., White and Williams, LLP

Lunch

Top Emerging and Environmental Claims: An AI Perspective

• Russ Greatorex, Senior Environmental Scientist, HETI
• James Durant, CIH, Senior Environmental Scientist, HETI
• Robin Kelleher, Environmental Solutions Group Council, USI Insurance
• Melissa Anderson, Vice President – Risk Management, Old Republic Insurance

Ethical Challenges Embedded in Environmental and Emerging Claims (ETHICS)

• Hillary Ladov, Esq., McAngus Goudelock & Courie
• Jessica Piderman, Esq., Lydecker

Break

The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: When Mold Vendors Run the Claim

• Patrick M. Caufield, Director – East Coast Operations, The ELAM Group
• Katherine Leisch, VP - Head of Environmental Claims, Ascot
• Forrest Andrews, Esq., Lydecker
• M. Claire Juliana, Claims Advocate, AON

Mass Action: Strategies for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Environmental Mass Actions

• Erin Poppler, Esq., Edlin Gallagher Huie + Blum LLP
• Trish Shippee, Environmental Division Claims VP, Great American Insurance Group
• Stephen Richardson, PhD, PE, PEng, GSI Environmental, Inc.
• Ilya Kosten, Esq., Sacro & Walker, LLP
• John Davies, Davies Public Affairs

Cocktail Networking Reception

• Compliments of our Sponsors

Breakfast

• Compliments of our Sponsors

Welcome Back Remarks

The Role of Time in Environmental Risk

• Diego Campos, Executive Underwriter, AVP, Berkley Specialty Excess
• Matthew Martello, MS, CHMM, LSRP, Trident
• Audrey O. Anyaele, Esq., Maron Marvel
• Lillian Haley, Associate Claims Counsel, Markel Insurance

You Need Coverage Counsel – How Did We Get Here?

• Brian Margolies, Esq., Kaufman Borgeest Ryan
• Chris DeCarlo, CHMM, LSRP, Technical Director, The Vertex Companies
• Julie Wiss, Assistant Vice President, Ironshore Insurance
• Leo Donatucci, Senior Claims Attorney II, Great American Insurance Group/li>

Break

Code, Claims, & Compliance: AI’s Triple Threat to Environmental Risk

• Erin Mitton, Environmental Division, Production Underwriting Manager, Great American Insurance Group
• Rosemarie Hebner, Esq., Cipriani & Werner
• Alanna Garrison, Senior Consultant, CSP, CIH, CHMM, Antea Group
• Ben Hansen, PG, VP-Insurance + Segment Leader, Antea Group/li>

Climate Change Superfund Legislation Overview

• Thomas Boley, Esq., Wiley Rein
• • Ken Ryan, Esq., Wiley Rein

Closing Remarks