Ryan A. Brockbank
Senior Vice President of Consulting and Environmental Services
Ryan Brockbank is responsible for leading the development, growth, and successful execution of ECI’s consulting services, including utility wildfire risk mitigation consulting, utility vegetation management (UVM) consulting, and environmental services. Mr. Brockbank has over 27 years of experience in the areas of UVM operations, environmental and UVM consulting, and professional contract personnel support, management, and advancement. Ryan previously served as President of Western ECI and Chief Operating Officer of ECI and was responsible for the oversight and direction of field operations, safety, and training and lead one of the nation’s largest groups of professionals involved in assisting utilities to successfully and sustainably manage their infrastructure and natural resources.
Over the years, Mr. Brockbank has developed expertise specific to the wildfire-related challenges encountered in the Western United States, including working with utilities, contractors and state and local government representatives to develop wildfire mitigation plans, asset-based hazardous fire area rating schema, wildfire- related vegetation management and fuels reduction criteria, asset hardening, situational awareness, and quality assurance programs to ensure wildfire mitigation plan compliance. Ryan also has extensive experience working on various pipeline and electric UVM projects including distribution line clearance studies, transmission ROW studies, environmental impact studies, quality control management services, project management, training services, and research projects.
Ryan is an ISA Certified Arborist, holds a B.U.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Utah and a M.S. in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco. He has served as a Director of the Utility Arborist Association (UAA) and is currently Chairperson of the UAA Pipeline Task Force. Mr. Brockbank is author of Integrated Vegetation Management on Pipeline Rights-of-Way, an addendum to the International Society of Arboriculture’s (ISA) IVM Best Management Practices publication, is a co-author of the ISA’s first edition of the Utility Specialist Certification Study Guide and was Principal Investigator on the EPRI-sponsored project, “Assessment of Environmental Effects of Current Underground and Overhead Transmission Line Construction and Maintenance in the United States“.
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