NERA Economic Consulting Announces Four Officer-Level Promotions
7 October 2005
NEW YORK--NERA Economic Consulting, an international firm of over 400 economists operating in 19 offices worldwide, announces the following officer-level promotions:
NERA promoted Dr. Chantale LaCasse and Dr. Hethie Parmesano to the position of Senior Vice President and Partner; and Dr. John H. Johnson and Dr. Ken Serwin to the position of Vice President.
Dr. Chantale LaCasse is based in NERA's New York City office. Dr. LaCasse is an expert on auctions and game theory. She provides advice mainly to energy market participants on auctions, competition, and regulatory issues. Most recently, she was the Auction Manager on behalf of four New Jersey Utilities for the procurement of supply to serve their standard offer load.
Dr. Hethie Parmesano is based in NERA's Los Angeles office, where she focuses on costing, pricing, and regulation of the electric, gas, and water utility industries. Dr. Parmesano directs NERA's Marginal Cost Working Group, a group of utility companies interested in sharing research and ideas on marginal costing and its use in applications such as pricing, planning, and retail access implementation. She has been heavily involved in regulatory reform, utility industry restructuring, and implementation of retail access in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
Dr. John H. Johnson is based in NERA's Washington, DC office. Dr. Johnson's research at NERA primarily focuses on antitrust, labor, and intellectual property economics. He specializes in damages estimation and the use of econometric methods in commercial litigation. Dr. Johnson also specializes in the economics of class certification and has conducted economic analyses involving large transaction and demographic data sets, such as volume of commerce calculations, pricing analyses, and econometric damages modeling.
Dr. Ken Serwin is based in NERA's San Francisco office. Dr. Serwin serves as testifying expert, valuation expert, and consulting economist. He has testified in both federal and state courts on the determination of commercial economic damages, and specializes in intellectual property and securities matters. He also performs valuations of intellectual property assets and provides business valuation services in a variety of contexts.
For additional information on these practice members, please visit the expert section of NERA's website.
About NERA
NERA Economic Consulting is an international firm of economists who understand how markets work. We provide economic analysis and advice to corporations, governments, law firms, regulatory agencies, trade associations, and international agencies. Our global team of more than 500 professionals operates in 19 offices across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
NERA provides practical economic advice related to highly complex business and legal issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation. Our more than 40 years of experience creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations reflects our specialization in industrial and financial economics. Because of our commitment to deliver unbiased findings, we are widely recognized for our independence. Our clients come to us expecting integrity; they understand this sometimes calls for their willingness to listen to unexpected or even unwelcome news.
NERA Economic Consulting (www.nera.com), founded in 1961 as National Economic Research Associates, is a subsidiary of Mercer Inc., a Marsh & McLennan company.
