Nightclub Expert Witnesses

Preston Rideout is President of Rideout Hospitality. He has 25 years of Nightclub Management and Bar Operations Experience. Preston is widely considered the leading Nightclub Expert specializing in Dram Shop Expert Witness Testimony. He cultivated his Nightlife Expertise by operating Coyote Ugly,...

Robert A. Gardner, CPP is a Board Certified & CA/NV/AZ Licensed Security Consultant, Private Investigator & Private Patrol Operator with more than 40 years of hands-on security and law enforcement experience. He has provided Forensic Consulting and Expert Witness services since 1991....

Karim H. Vellani is the President of Threat Analysis Group, LLC, a security consulting firm. Karim is Board Certified in Security Management (CPP), a Board Certified Security Consultant (CSC), has over 18 years of security consulting experience, and has a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice...

Dennis P. Gemberling is a manager, consultant and expert with over thirty-five years of hospitality industry experience and training in lodging and food service. He has managed, operated and consulted on hundreds of hotels, resorts, motels, inns, gaming, casinos, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and...