ORMS President Derek Ezovski has spent his professional career helping companies create best practices to manage their risks, with a focus on environmental risk management and remediation on real estate. Before founding ORMS, Derek, a civil/environmental engineer with an MBA from the University of Connecticut, served as managing director at Environmental Data Resources (EDR), a national environmental information company. His previous experience includes management positions with Marsh USA, where he was an insurance risk management professional; FleetBoston, where he served as the environmental risk manager for the bank’s Small Business Services Division; and Travelers, where, as an engineering manager, he helped resolve complex environmental cases.

The author of numerous articles on environmental due diligence and other property risk management topics, Derek played a lead role in developing desktop environmental products that are simplifying the due diligence process for lenders. As a resource to the Small Business Administration, he also used his expertise to make due diligence for SBA loans easier to manage.

Derek has presented to many leading industry organizations, including the Risk Management Association (RMA); Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA); Federal Financial Institutional Examination Council (FFlEC); State of Connecticut, Department of Banking; National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders (NAGGL); and the Environmental Bankers Association (EBA).