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MODERATORS & PANELISTS (continued)

Brad Stanford Kim Viergever
Shareholder, Litigation Group Chair The Reitz Law Firm, CO
Farleigh Wada Witt, OR Kim Viergever represents clients in gen-
For 30 years, Brad Stanford has assessed eral liability, construction defect, products
and managed clients’ risks and successfully liability, sports/recreation, and commercial
litigated cases involving business disputes, matters. Viergever has vast trial experience,
product liability, personal injury, insurance and her published opinions at the appellate
coverage, class actions, environmental level include: Cooper v. United States Ski
matters, wage/hour and other employment issues, and real Assoc., 32 P.3d 502 (Colo. App. 2000) and Stamp v. Vail Corp., 172
estate disputes. Stanford is a recognized leader in ski area and P.3d 437 (Colo. 2007), which limits recovery for wrongful death
recreational product liability defense, and is past president of actions in ski related cases to $250,000, and Fleury v. Intrawest
the Association of Ski Defense Attorneys. He was awarded the Winter Park Operations Corp., 372 P.3d 349 (2016). She skied
2008 Industrial Strength Award by the Pacific Northwest Ski Areas competitively throughout her youth; that competitiveness
Association, an honor presented to individuals who have made continues today in her litigation practice.
a significant contribution to the PNW ski industry.
Mistica Walker
Adam Strachan Specialty Claims Adjuster
Principal Wells Fargo Special Risks Inc, CO
Strachan, Strachan & Simon, PC, UT As a specialty claims adjuster for Wells
Adam Strachan has defended nearly every Fargo Special Risks, Mistica Walker focuses
ski resort in Utah in various cases ranging on liability, property, and auto claims, and
from contract disputes to personal injury also monitors ski resort worker’s compen-
claims. In 2013, as lead defense counsel for sation claims in Colorado and New Mexico.
one resort he obtained a defense verdict Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Walker worked 11 years in ski resort
in a wrongful death case resulting from an in-bounds avalanche operations, primarily in mountain operations, risk management,
that killed one skier and injured two others. For another resort he and legal. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in legal studies from
recovered $2 million in a case against a homeowners association the University of Maryland University College, and is a frequent
that allegedly failed to perform structural maintenance on a park- presenter on risk management issues across the US ski industry.
ing structure at the resort base. Strachan also has represented
outdoor companies in products liability cases involving allegedly
defective climbing equipment and backcountry ski gear.

Joel Sutherland
Managing Director & Professor of Practice
Supply Chain Management Institute,
University of San Diego
Joel Sutherland has 30 years of experience
as a supply chain professional in executive
roles at several major companies. In the late
1990s he was hired by JB Hunt Transport to
help create a new company that would later become Transplace,
a multi-billion dollar global 3PL offering logistics technology
and transportation management services. He was president and
COO of Air-Road Express, ultimately selling the company in
2005. Sutherland has an MBA from Pepperdine University and
a BS degree from the University of Southern California. He cur-
rently teaches graduate level logistics courses at the University
of San Diego where he is managing director of the Supply Chain
Management Institute.

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