Experts & Advisors
Angela McDanal
Senior Managing Director
2000 K Street NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
+1.202.797.1111 Main
+1.202.721.0958 Direct
Angela McDanal is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with more than 12 years of experience providing expert services support in the field of litigation and disputes. Angela’s areas of expertise include big data analytics, complex pattern recognition, and predictive modeling. Her work in estimating current and future claims liability has been used in several high-profile mass tort and product liability matters. She is based in Washington, DC.
Experience
Angela is responsible for providing ongoing data support services and statistical analysis for several multibillion-dollar asbestos trusts. Her expertise in the field of data analytics enables her to provide the trusts with reliable, reasoned, and predictive advice regarding actuarial claims forecasting, payment rates analysis, payment percentage adjustments, and cash flow modeling. Angela’s ability to translate massive amounts of data from a variety of sources into valuable insights has also played a critical role in the favorable outcome of several large asbestos-related bankruptcy cases.
As part of Angela’s trust management work, she provides detailed filing trend analyses, claim valuation verification, and fraud detection research using complex SAS programming. She manages the ongoing production of essential trust compliance reports and plays an important role in providing targeted data extracts for trust audit activities and claim support services. Her analytics activities also include predictive modeling, text mining, sample design, and data visualization.
- Education
- MS, University of Denver
- BS, University of Denver
