Jake Evans with Thompson Hine and Dan Ricks with Bright Water Consulting on Georgia Business Radio
Jake represents individuals and corporate entities – from successful small companies to Fortune 100 corporations – in high-stakes complex litigation. His practice is national in scope and consists of litigating in state courts, federal courts, and varying alternative dispute resolution forums including arbitration and mediation. Jake has successfully defended corporations in high exposure product liability cases and has obtained favorable outcomes for individual and corporate clients in complex business litigation disputes. He manages all aspects of litigation, including dispositive motion drafting, fact and expert witness depositions, oral arguments, and trial preparation and execution.
Dan Ricks is an entrepreneur that specializes in operations, management and technology consulting. Dan has performed executive roles such as CIO and interim CIO for several companies. In 2003 Dan started Bright Water Consulting, LLC (BWC) and continues as it’s President. BWC’s motto is “Your most important projects on time, on budget and at the highest possible quality.” Dan started his career with the Georgia Power Company and then Norrell Corporation. From 1986 – 2000 Dan held a successful career at The Coca-Cola Company implementing improved business processes and technology globally. Afterwards Dan served as Vice President and Business Technology Officer for SunTrust Bank. Throughout his career Dan has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and drive which led him to, following his successful corporate career, start BWC (in 2003). For the past 14-years Dan has been providing C-level Services to corporations nationwide to help those companies improve efficiencies, improve business processes, reduce costs and position themselves to be scalable and sustainable for future growth.