OUR TEAM
ESG’s sphere of expertise includes Economic Impact Analysis, Sports Analysis and Litigation Support, Environmental Sustainability, and naming to name a few. Our vertical expertise in the Sports, Transportation and Energy sectors come from years of experience with industry leading companies on the job.

Our experts and professional staff work diligently and effectively with legal experts, business leaders, and policy makers to provide unsurpassed strategic consulting services, including expert witness services and support. ESG provides its clients with research and deliverables of the highest quality.

Christopher T. Gillis, Managing Principal
A program manager who has administered numerous communications projects for major airlines, utilities, and communications companies. Mr. Gillis has also managed product development for high tech communications programs, including AMS and Mobex Communications.
Mr. Gillis is currently consulting on a wireless communications strategy providing cost and market analysis, ROI projections, system audit and design review, and strategic management perspectives.
Mr. Gillis has completed work on an aviation security strategy and works with federal and state government and biometric experts.

Daniel A. Rascher, Ph.D., Principal
A Ph.D. Economist who has managed numerous economic impact studies, has provided economic analysis of the parcel shipping industry including hub locations, throughput forecasts, market definitions and market shares, has been a statistical analyst determining the likely use and use value of GPS systems and their impact on transportation flows, and has provided benchmarking consulting in the technology industry. He has testified as an expert witness in federal and state courts and in arbitration proceedings.

Dr. Rascher teaches, publishes research, and consults. He specializes in economics and finance and more specifically in industrial organization, antitrust, mergers & acquisitions, valuation, economic impact, feasibility research, damage analysis, strategy, and labor issues within many industries.
Dr. Rascher received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Professor at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches Masters courses in applied Economics, Finance, and Research Methods. Prior to joining USF, Dr. Rascher was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

E. Alan Scheik, Principal
A Marketing professional for high tech and finance industires. Mr. Scheik has worked for the past 20+ years in various sales, business development and marketing roles at a global level and currently leads teams covering the U.S, Canada and Emerging Market. He has held various positions for well known corporate brands that include American Airlines, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Sabre and Cisco Systems and held the VP of Business Development role for a national retail mobile content company working with the large wireless carriers. He previously held a board position with the Connected Vehicle Trade Association and supports One Good Turn Productions as a coordinating producer. Mr. Scheik has written whitepapers related to the transportation industry and serves as a key advisor to Communities for Kids. Mr. Scheik completed Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business Mid-Management Program, Thunderbird Executive Education “Business Planning” Program and has received awards for sales and marketing excellence, business development innovation, and is the recipient of the Air Force Achievement Medal.

Alan D. Rozzi, Principal
Dr. Rozzi received his Doctoral degree in American Politics and Quantitative Methods at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Masters in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago, and Bachelors degrees in Economics and Political Science from Ursinus College. His research agenda includes long-term studies on energy pricing, the effects of changes in marginal tax rates on the behavior of upper income earners, forecasting the economic impact of airports, and analyses of the institutional and political dynamics of agenda setting within and across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. federal government. His research emphasizesed the construction of original theoretical models and data sets and extensive statistical and econometric analysis. Dr. Rozzi specializes in the political aspects of public policy making and has taught numerous courses in American Politics and statistical analysis at UCLA, Pepperdine University, and Santa Clara University.

Arthur K. McAuley, Senior Associate
Art McAuley has over 29 years experience in the energy industry. For six years he held the position of Manager of Generation Interconnection Services at Pacific Gas and Electric Company where he was accountable for managing all generation interconnection applications and processes associated with interconnecting to the utility’s grid. He was responsible for managing those processes for the US’s greatest amount of solar generation, third in the world behind Germany and Japan. His responsibilities included wholesale merchant power plants selling to the ISO-controlled grid, retail distributed generation, and of course Net Energy Metered wind, solar, bio-digester and fuel cell technologies.

In previous positions, Mr. McAuley drafted and interpreted tariffs for PG&E, wrote and presented testimony in hearings relating to electric standby service and competitive transition charge applicability, managed wholesale transmission contracts, project managed generation interconnections during the “Energy Crisis”, performed commercial and industrial energy management analyses, and acted as corporate liaison between the utility and such clients as Shell, Texaco, Santa Fe Energy Resources and Calpine. He developed the metering and billing algorithms for PG&E’s divested power plants avoiding capital costs of metering units in the millions of dollars. He was a major contributor to PG&E’s 500 MW PV filing, a member of the California Public Utilities Commission Electric Rule 21 Working Group and the SolarTech Interconnection Committee Chair- collaboratively working with customers, solar integrators, regulators and utilities in developing and improving interconnection processes. His efforts contributed to PG&E leading the nation in interconnecting photovoltaic resources and being recognized as the most solar integrated utility of 2008. Art holds a Bachelors of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from San Jose State University and a certificate in Project Management.