13 things about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Brian Bourquard

Brian Anderson Bourquard is an American man from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Before moving to Philadelphia, he lived in Boise, Idaho, USA, in Seattle, Washington, USA and in different parts of Indiana, USA including Lafayette and West Lafayette.

Bourquard earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Seattle University in Seattle, a master’s degree in management from Grenoble Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France and a master’s degree and a PhD in agricultural economics from Purdue University in West Lafayette. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He speaks English and French.
2. He was born in 1983.
3. In August 2005, he, Anthony Marou Martinez, Oscar Cash Gonzales and Brandon Michael Reeve were involved in a theft ring.
4. He and Reeve assisted in covering up the murder of Shanan Lynn Read, whose decomposed and decapitated body was found floating inside a Rubbermaid tote container near Blake Island in the Puget Sound in Kitsap County, Washington on January 15, 2006.
5. In 2008, he became a person of interest in Read’s death.
6. From September 2013 to July 2014, he worked for WestWater Research as a research associate.
7. In 2014, he won the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) case study competition in Cape Town, South Africa.
8. From July 2014 to May 2018, he was a Purdue University fellow.
9. In 2015, he finished second in the IFAMA case study competition in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
10. From May 2018 to September 2020, he worked for Ernst & Young‘s global strategy consulting arm EY-Parthenon as a director and a manager.
11. From October 2020 to June 2021, he was an EY-Parthenon senior director.
12. In 2022, he was arrested by the Philadelphia Police Department, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Marshals Service.
13. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to the charges filed against him in 2022.

Brian Bourquard’s timeline

2015

• On May 16, 2015, he and Christina Duchek registered for their wedding in Boise.

2016

• He, Marcos Fava Neves and Allan Wayne Gray co-wrote “Copersucar: A world leader in sugar and ethanol”, an article published in January 2016.

2018

• He and Gray co-wrote “King’s Hawaiian: Managing the supply of aloha spirit for every household, every day”, an article published in February 2018.

2019

• He and Steven Y. Wu co-wrote “An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions”, an article published in January 2019.

2021

• In June 2021, he joined Verdant Robotics, Inc. as the vice president of strategy and finance.

2022

• He, Gray, Gemma Berenguer and Paul Preckel co-wrote “Raw material variability in food manufacturing: a data-driven snack food industry case”, an article published in June 2022.
• On August 8, 2022, he was arrested in Philadelphia for his role in Read’s murder and held without bail to await extradition to Washington.

2023

• On February 6, 2023, he was sentenced to 364 days in jail with all suspended for a year after pleading guilty to rendering criminal assistance in the second degree and unlawful disposal of human remains.