Our Team

As Executive Vice President of Class Action Services, Dan oversees the management of Verita’s consumer and antitrust settlements. He has personally managed several hundred class action cases of all types and sizes. Dan has appeared as an expert panelist, speaking on claims administration issues on numerous CLE panels, various legal and government organizations, and internationally, before multinational financial entities.

Prior to Verita, Dan served as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County for 14 years. He has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict, including in excess of 40 jury trials. Before working as a prosecutor, he served as an extern for California Appellate Court Justice Timothy Reardon.

Dan received his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Santa Clara University and his Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University. He is an active member of the California State Bar. Dan has lectured on claims administration at numerous venues including California Judicial College and seminars held by the California District Attorneys’ Association.

As Senior Vice President & Head of Strategy, Jonathan relies on two decades of experience to facilitate the growth of Verita’s business through assessments focused on client service, business process improvement, re-engineering, and product design. As the head of the Consumer Class Action and Mass Tort divisions in the U.S. and Canada, his primary focus is to deliver high-quality, cost-effective services and to foster deep client relationships. Jonathan’s comprehensive experience helps foster the short- and long-term goals of the company in a rapidly changing industry by developing comprehensive top-down planning needs and delivering agile execution on those initiatives for his clients.

Jonathan has overseen more than 1,500 settlements of varying size and complexity, including the Anthem Inc., Data Breach Litigation, Midland Credit Management Inc., TCPA Litigation, Golden v. Context Logic d.b.a Wish.com Settlement, Experian Data Breach Litigation, Toyota Motor Corp. Unintended Acceleration Litigation, Desjardins Data Breach settlement, and Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation.

Jonathan graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

Lance brings over a decade of experience to his role as Vice President. He is responsible for overseeing the accurate and timely completion of securities class actions, managing client relationships, and providing guidance through the entire claims administration process.

Throughout his time in settlement administration, Lance has managed numerous notable cases. Some of these administrations include JPMorgan, Bank of America, Avon Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Delphi, and Nortel.

Prior to his current role, Lance spent time focusing on complex securities related transactions arising out of restructuring cases, such as securities solicitation, rights offerings, tender offers, loan syndications and distributions to securities holders. Some of these engagements include Extraction Oil and Gas, Superior Energy Services and Garrett Motion.

Lance received his Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Technology from State University of New York at Farmingdale.

Lana brings a decade of experience in settlement administration to her role as Vice President at Verita. She oversees all aspects of case management, ensuring operational efficiencies and successful implementation of settlement requirements and plans of administration. She is also heavily involved in the development and testing of operational process improvements to meet business and client needs.

Lana has managed numerous notable cases, including In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation, Birchmeier et al. v. Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc. et al., Kolinek v. Walgreen Co., Experian Data Breach Litigation, and Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation.

Lana has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science: Legal Studies from California State University, Chico.

As Executive Vice President and head of Verita’s complex practice group, Peter oversees all activities related to securities, international, antitrust and government actions. With two decades of experience, Peter has directly overseen nearly one-third of the top 100 domestic and international settlements of all time, including settlements related to Enron ($7.2 bn), AOL Time Warner ($2.2 bn), Household ($1.57 bn), Fortis (€1.3 bn Netherlands), Steinhoff (€1.3 billion Netherlands/South Africa), Toyota Unintended Acceleration ($1.3 bn), Valeant ($1.21 bn) and AIG ($975 mm). These cases include the largest ever class-action settlement and the two largest collective action settlements in Europe.

As the CEO of Gilardi for more than a decade prior to its acquisition, Peter brings broad experience to his role, as he worked as counsel in private practice and in senior level management in both private and public technology companies. He has been a driver for digitalization within the class action industry, including the development of the first online filing portal in securities settlements and the drive to digital payments. Peter has lectured on settlement and claims administration issues to international institutions, investors, and client panels in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has testified in courts throughout the country on settlement matters and has been a featured speaker at various Federal judicial conferences.

Peter holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D and M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and an LL.M, with distinction, in International Financial Regulation from the University of London. A proud native San Franciscan of multiple generations, Peter served in the Jesuit International Volunteers in Micronesia prior to law school. While there, he taught high school, helped prison inmates obtain their GED’s, and taught English to immigrant workers. He is a board member of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, an advisory board member of the Okizu Foundation, which serves children with cancer, and a former Board member of the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center.

Kate brings over a decade of experience to her role as Vice President of Class Action Services at Verita, where she leads a team managing complex international settlements and U.S. government administrations. Her work involves coordinating with various stakeholders, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, and executing comprehensive program strategies while refining operational processes to better serve clients.

Throughout her recent career in the class action industry, Kate has focused on several high-profile, international administrations, including both the Fortis Settlement and the Steinhoff Global Administration. She has navigated the intricate details of these settlements, which often encompass multiple jurisdictions, sophisticated operational protocols, and diverse stakeholder interests. Her expertise lies in effectively managing these complexities.

Prior to joining Verita, Kate practiced law in New York, handling a broad spectrum of legal matters. She maintains her admission to practice in both New York state and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Kate also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, contributing to community development projects for several years in Benin, West Africa.

Mishka brings over 15 years of settlement administration experience to her role as a Vice President on the Class Action Securities team. She is responsible for overall day-to-day management of the securities processing, tasks, and cases. Prior to her current role, Mishka held numerous roles within Verita, making her very knowledgeable of the settlement administration industry. In addition to her role as Vice President, Mishka is currently the case manager for several cases which are in various phases of notice, claims processing, and distribution. These cases include many of Verita’s most sensitive and complex matters such as the Pfizer Securities Litigation, AIG 2008 Securities Litigation, Household International Securities Litigation, DHB Industries Inc. Class Action and Restitution, ARCP Securities Settlement, Valeant Securities Settlement, Wells Fargo Securities Settlement, and Alphabet Securities Settlement.

With over a decade of experience in the legal field, Frank plays an integral role in each engagement at Verita. From fostering client relationships and strategic initiatives, to overseeing settlement administration, case management, staffing, training, and technology, Frank plays both a strategic and tactical role in Verita’s Class Action and Mass Tort divisions.

In addition to supervising the operations of Verita’s pharmaceutical and product liability matters, Frank oversaw the administration of the Porter Ranch Gas Blowout matter, in which over 30,000 plaintiff discovery questionnaires were administered and served by Verita. Frank has also helped oversee the settlement administration of nearly 100,000 claimants in mass arbitration proceedings across the nation. Most recently, Frank has worked on several high-profile government matters involving attorney general proceedings.

Prior to joining Verita, Frank was responsible for the litigation and management of over one hundred labor and employment and consumer class action lawsuits.

Frank received his Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he served as the Chairperson of the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law, and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Boston College.

Jay brings a decade of settlement administration experience to his role at Verita. He oversees all aspects of case management, ensuring operational efficiencies and successful implementation of settlement requirements, plans of administration, and plans of allocation. He is also involved in the development and testing of operational process improvements to meet business and client needs.

Jay has managed numerous notable cases, including In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation; Hageman v. AT&T Mobility LLC; Duncan v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; Shane Flaum v. Doctor’s Associates, Inc. n/k/a Doctor’s Associates LLC; and Luster v. Wells Fargo Dealer Services, Inc.

Prior to joining Verita, Jay was an Operations Manager for Lucasfilm Ltd. gaming division LucasArts Entertainment Company.

As a Director of Class Action Services, Kevin is responsible for managing client relationships and facilitating the growth of new client engagements. Before joining Verita, he lead business development and strategy at leading law firms in Seattle for nearly a decade. Kevin takes his consultative approach with the legal community and apply it to Verita’s clients. His management experience provides clients with top-level service as he guides them through the administration process.

Kevin received his Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in English from Louisiana State University.

Lara brings two decades of experience to her role as Executive Vice President of Settlement Fund Accounting. She is responsible for strategic growth and guidance in settlement fund accounting, banking, distributions, and tax compliance. In the last ten years, Lara and her team have overseen the distribution of more than 7,700 class distributions, representing over 31 million payments and more than $17 Billion in assets. In recent years, $4 billion of these monies have been distributed in EUR, CAD, ZAR in support of collective actions and non-US settlements. As the marketplace for digital disbursements continues to grow, this team has helped facilitate more than 100+ digital distributions to more than 3 million claimants via PayPal, Venmo, Zello, Amazon and Interac.

Prior to joining Verita, Lara specialized in public accounting for over a decade, serving as an audit manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Financial Services sector based in San Francisco, Singapore and New York. Throughout her years of experience in settlement administration, Lara has overseen more than 2,600 settlement administrations, which have included some of the largest and most complex private settlements in history: Enron, UnitedHealth, Facebook, Pfizer, and Fortis (Europe).

Lara graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics and Psychology, and holds a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia, as well as a Certified Treasury Professional Certificate and a California C.P.A. License.

As Vice President of Business Development and Legal Notification Services, Carla drives the strategic direction and growth of the company’s class action and mass tort initiatives. She is responsible for fostering key relationships and developing new relationships in the legal industry, as well as overseeing the business development professionals who ensure Verita’s market leadership position in providing administration services.

With over two decades of experience, Carla serves as an industry leading notice expert. She oversees the Legal Notification Services team for Verita in both the U.S. and Canada. Her expertise includes all aspects of media research, planning, and buying, as well as the design and production of various forms of notice. Carla ensures that all of Verita’s notice plans satisfy due process requirements; applicable state and federal laws; and satisfy the plain language requirements of Rule 23 and adhere to the guidelines set forth in the Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth and by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). She has successfully provided notice in both the U.S. and international markets, including communications in more than 35 languages.

In addition to providing expert testimony and depositions, Carla has presented and written numerous articles about class notification programs, the design of effective notice documents, as well as industry trends and innovations. She is also a certified professional in Social Media Marketing, Digital Fundamentals, Digital Sales, and Google Ads Fundamentals.

Carla holds a Master of Business Administration from West Chester University, graduating summa cum laude, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Temple University.