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Leadership.

The standard Norvian holds is set by the people who built it — each drawn from a career where judgment carried consequence and accountability was not optional.

Team

The people who set the standard.

Norvian's team spans institutional capital markets, clinical medicine, dispute resolution, and corporate law.

Chris Lautenslager, CEO and Founder of Norvian Advisory
CEO / Founder

Chris Lautenslager

Institutional capital markets · Behavioral risk governance

Chris Lautenslager founded Norvian to bring institutional standards of rigor, accountability, and discretion to families and fiduciaries confronting addiction and mental illness. He brings more than a decade and a half of experience in institutional capital markets, with senior roles at Credit Suisse and InterContinental Exchange and extensive work in derivatives valuation and risk-management technology. Earlier he co-founded a proprietary commodity trading firm and later served on the board of directors of a publicly listed company. His most recent work was within the behavioral-health field, which gave him a direct view of how often that industry is improvised rather than governed — the gap Norvian was founded to address. His commitment to this work is also personal, grounded in his own connection to recovery. He earned his M.M. in Finance and Economics from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Abhin Singla, MD, Medical Director of Norvian Advisory
Medical Director

Dr. Abhin Singla, MD

Clinical authority · Independent assessment

Abhin Singla, MD, is Norvian's Medical Director, overseeing all medical-related decisions. A practicing internist and addiction medicine physician with nearly three decades of clinical experience, he has served since 1997 as Medical Director and Owner of Clinical Associates in Medicine, LLC in Joliet, Illinois, and is affiliated with Saint Joseph Medical Center and Silver Cross Hospital. He is also a practicing medical informatician, with a decade of informatics work at the University of Illinois Chicago and hands-on experience designing medical software and health information networks — a rare combination of clinical authority and health-technology fluency. Dr. Singla earned his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from UIC.

Faustin "Frosty" Pipal Jr., Counsel to Norvian Advisory
Counsel

Faustin "Frosty" Pipal Jr.

Dispute resolution · Fiduciary conflict dynamics

Faustin "Frosty" Pipal Jr. has practiced as a litigator, arbitrator, and mediator since 1980. He is a founding partner of Chicago-based Pipal & Berg, LLP, and clients have used him to resolve more than 3,500 lawsuits and pre-suit claims in mediation. He is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and serves on the FINRA mediation panel for securities and employment disputes. He is a past president of the Chicago chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution and an approved mediator in the EEOC's external mediation program and the Cook County Law Division's mediation program. He is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. Frosty advises Norvian on dispute resolution and fiduciary conflict dynamics through Inside Track Legal.

Bill Pipal, Counsel to Norvian Advisory
Counsel

Bill Pipal

Corporate · Commercial · Data privacy

Bill Pipal founded Inside Track Legal after nearly a decade as in-house counsel at high-growth technology companies. His 12-year career spans an AmLaw 100 firm (Troutman Pepper) and in-house roles at Home Chef and SpotHero, and he holds the CIPP/US privacy certification. His practice covers corporate matters, commercial contracts, employment, and data privacy, delivered as fractional general counsel to growing companies. Bill serves as Norvian's outside counsel.

The Standard Norvian Holds

Institutional discipline applied to deeply human circumstances.

The firm is built on the premise that recovery is achievable and that families can stabilize — and that better outcomes depend on accountable systems, honest counsel, and dependable execution rather than improvisation. That standard, drawn from a career spent where accountability is not optional, is the foundation on which Norvian is being built.

Chris Lautenslager · CEO / Founder, Norvian Advisory
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