J.S. Held’s expertise in strategic advisory is built upon five decades of experience in the most rigorous venues – state, federal, and international courts – and spans more than 150 different industry segments.
J.S. Held clients benefit from experts' deep and diverse experiences tested in complex & often challenging situations.
During his tenure at J.S. Held, Erik has been responsible for estimating, project management, scheduling, and on site project monitoring oversight on many of the largest property losses in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. His diverse background includes consulting on high-rise, residential, commercial, industrial, retail, historic building, railway, bridge and major personal lines losses.
Timothy Dowden has over 15 years of experience in the construction consulting industry. He has been responsible for many consulting tasks such as project management, assessing, estimating, monitoring, and auditing of collapse, fire, wind, hail, water, and flood damage claims of diverse sizes and nature. His assignments have taken him throughout the United States and Canada. He has assisted in claims on projects ranging from the renewable energy sector (solar and wind energy) to commercial construction, the hospitality sector, multi-family residences, and high-net-worth custom residences.
Colin Young has over 20 years experience in the construction and insurance industry as a project manager, estimator, and consultant. Prior to his tenure at J.S. Held, he has been involved in estimating, project management, and on-site project monitoring on numerous loss assignments throughout Canada, the United States, Colombia, Dubai, Indonesia, South Africa, and Thailand. Colin was also involved with several high-profile aviation disasters over the years with the recovery and repatriation of personal effects. As a consultant Colin has been involved with many large-scale commercial losses in the Industrial, commercial, institutional and education sectors. With a strong background in large scale commercial mitigation, he has used this knowledge to assist in the mitigation of costs associated with the recovery work.