ERCI Team

John Rosengard

Founder and President

John Rosengard has over twenty years of experience in the specific area of analysis, reporting, and auditing for environmental liabilities. Throughout his career, he has worked on hundreds of remediation projects and has experience with financial reporting for over 3,300 sites worldwide. He personally developed ERCI’s proprietary software, Defender™, which is currently used by numerous Fortune 500 clients’ environmental project teams for documenting their environmental remediation liabilities for disclosure, budgeting and business optimization. He has participated in dozens of successful audits of environmental liabilities and over 50 SEC reports of reserve estimates. Defender has been fully integrated into the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and reporting processes and systems at several US companies. In 2001, he was invited to serve on the ASTM committee which drafted and published the environmental reserve calculation (E2137) and disclosure (E2173) standard guides.

Prior to incorporating ERCI, Mr. Rosengard spent several years at MAECORP, Inc. as a Federal Marketing Manager, OHM Remediation Services as a Technical Writer, and at FMC Corporation as a Business Planner and Product Manager.

M.B.A., Northwestern University; B.S. Georgetown University

Ryan Lafrenz

Manager

Ryan Lafrenz joined ERCI during the summer of 2007. Mr. Lafrenz has over ten years of environmental regulatory compliance and consulting experience in California and Washington state. Mr. Lafrenz has specific experience working as a scientist specializing in marine and riparian ecosystem management, natural resource management, forest resource management and ecological restoration. Additionally, Mr. Lafrenz has a working knowledge of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process and is proficient at quantifying and documenting environmental remediation liabilities, asset retirement obligations and pollution remediation obligations.

With his background in the sciences and his experience in the financial aspects of environmental remediation, Mr. Lafrenz offers ERCI’s clients a unique combination of skills to ensure that their projects are properly addressed. As an Engagement Manager at ERCI, Mr. Lafrenz plays an integral role in developing strategic plans and financial solutions for both individual sites and portfolios with environmental liabilities. He currently maintains OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER Certification.

M.E.M., Resource Ecology and Forest Ecosystems Management, Duke University; B.S., Biology and Chemistry, University of Portland

Ashley MacDonald

Manager

Ashley MacDonald joined ERCI in summer of 2007. She has over eight years of financial analysis, project management and accounting experience, including over two years within the environmental consulting field. Ms. MacDonald plays an integral role in the development of financial strategies to successfully manage client environmental liabilities and remediation projects. She is the Engagement Manager for the Port of Seattle and manages multiple Site Strategic Plans for Chevron Superfund sites. In addition, she is the GASB 49 Compliance Team Leader and assists with business planning and performance management.

M.B.A., F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College; B.A., Anthropology and Religion,Trinity College

Lindsey Anderson

Senior Associate

Lindsey Anderson joined the ERCI team during the summer of 2007. Ms. Anderson has over eight years of environmental risk, outreach and management experience that she employs in her work with ERCI clients to accurately account for and mitigate their environmental liabilities. She utilizes her prior experience with environmental risk evaluation to help her clients successfully address their portfolio of environmental liabilities. Specifically, Ms. Anderson helps ERCI clients efficiently track, evaluate and report on their environmental projects by developing software tools designed to address each client’s particular reporting requirements. Her software tools work in tandem with ERCI’s suite of products.

B.A., Environmental Studies with a focus on Environmental Policy and Engineering, Dartmouth College

Anna Ching

Senior Analyst

Anna Ching joined ERCI as a Senior Analyst in 2008. She has had over five years of diverse environmental work experience in green business certifications, legal services, and financial planning. Prior to joining ERCI, Ms. Ching worked in the non-profit sector conducting life-cycle assessments as a Research Associate. She will begin attending the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Science in the fall of 2010, but promises to keep in touch with ERCI.

M.E.M. (Pending), School of Forestry & Environmental Science at Yale University; B.S., Environmental Economics & Policy, at the University of California, Berkeley