Gayle Schlea Koch

Gayle Schlea Koch has over 30 years of consulting experience focused on applying her combined technical/business background to environmental, product liability/mass torts, and insurance related issues. She has substantial experience in the estimation of environmental and product liabilities in connection with disclosures, fraudulent conveyance matters, bankruptcies, insurance claims, tax disputes, acquisitions and divestitures, real estate transfers, settlements, litigation, and strategic planning.  She has served as an expert on cases involving liability estimation, allocation, cost recovery and NCP (National Contingency Plan) consistency, insurance recovery valuation, disclosure, economic damages, and ability to pay.

Gayle has served as a technical contact for ASTM International’s standards on environmental cost estimation, environmental disclosure, and climate change disclosure. She also served on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards Council.

Areas of Expertise

  • Ability to Pay
  • Civil and Criminal Penalties
  • Commercial Damages
  • Cost Recovery, NCP Consistency and Allocation
  • Disclosure
  • Environmental Cost Estimation
  • Industrial Processes and Products
  • Insurance Coverage Valuation
  • Product Liability/Toxic Torts
  • Public Policy Impacts

Education

  • B.S. in Chemical Engineering, M.I.T.
  • B.S. in Humanities and Engineering (Science, Technology & Society Program), M.I.T.
  • M.S. in Management Science (concentrations in applied economics, corporate strategy, and management of technological innovation), Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.