Ross Forensics professionals are recognized leaders and highly experienced advisors. Our senior personnel have decades of experience in the forensic assessment and quantification of economic damages in a wide variety of cases throughout the United States and in major international disputes.
Stephen C. Ross
Stephen Ross is co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Ross Forensics. He has been advising clients on cost, quantum and damages issues in dispute and litigation matters for more than 28 years. Prior to co-founding Ross Forensics, Steve held senior positions at international consulting firms including MRW Advisory, Navigant Consulting, Tucker Alan, Inc. and Peterson Consulting.
Steve has been retained to advise large multinational concerns, Fortune 100 and 500 companies, major law firms and government agencies throughout the United States and abroad on a wide variety of assignments
Steve’s practice focuses on: complex construction disputes; commercial disputes including breach of contract, lost profits, business interruption, funds tracing, business failure, business valuation matters; and, environmental litigation.
Steve has particular expertise assisting clients in major construction disputes and international arbitrations. Among the projects in which he has been retained include power plants, subway/rail, airports and resort hotels. This work has spanned the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the People’s Republic of China and the Caribbean.
Steve has provided expert testimony in deposition, trial and arbitration on approximately seventy occasions. He has been qualified as an expert in state and federal courts throughout the United States and has also presented before Disputes Review Boards and other ad-hoc tribunals. In the context of international arbitration, Steve has given evidence in forums including the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (London). He has extensive experience serving as an expert before arbitration tribunals and has participated in expert “hot-tubbing” and other forms of expert examination.
Steve has been recognized as a leading expert world-wide in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration published by the Global Arbitration Review.
Steve holds a Business Administration degree with an Accounting Concentration from the University of Washington and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington. He also holds the designations Certified in Financial Forensics and Chartered Global Management Accountant issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Kristi M. Kurata
Kristi Kurata is co-founder and Managing Director of Ross Forensics. Kristi has been advising clients on cost, quantum and damages issues in dispute and litigation situations for more than 25 years. Kristi’s consulting engagements have spanned a diverse array of industries, including construction, software, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, financial institutions, hospitality and real estate, among others. Prior to co-founding Ross Forensics, Kristi held senior positions at international consulting firms including MRW Advisory, Navigant Consulting, Tucker Alan, Inc. and Peterson Consulting.
Kristi has consulted with large multinational concerns, Fortune 100 and 500 companies, major law firms and government agencies throughout the United States and abroad on a wide variety of assignments. In the United States, Kristi has worked on matters in state and federal courts of various jurisdictions nationwide. Kristi also has extensive experience assisting clients in major international construction disputes. Among these projects include power plants, subway/rail, airports and resort hotels. Her work has spanned the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the People’s Republic of China and the Caribbean. Kristi is experienced with many of the enterprise accounting systems used by a number of our large multinational clients. She has particular expertise in applying innovative and cost-effective approaches to extract extremely large data sets from those systems and is highly adept at efficiently analyzing that data in support of our work.
Kristi has provided expert testimony in deposition and arbitration in the United States and played an integral role in various international arbitrations in the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (London).
Kristi holds a Business Administration degree with a Finance Concentration from the University of Washington.