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Background My first direct experience with fraud was when I was hired as director of finance of a company in Singapore who was a distributor/contractor for an American manufacturer of fiberglass pipe. My task was to determine if the branch manager was misappropriating funds and if he was then I was to implement controls to stop the misappropriation. He was and I did. During my time in Singapore I saw frequent evidence of corruption such as business owners paying bribes and mid level managers of large companies receiving bribes and other evidence of payments to international agents to secure orders in countries such as Indonesia. The net result of this type of corruption was that governments and other buyers were either over paying for large projects or receiving projects of an inferior quality to what they could reasonably expect. When I returned t the U.S. I was hired as CFO of a bank primarily because they had found a significant mis-classification in their accounting records and simultaneously were hit with a major loss due to fraud in their commercial loan portfolio. Since 1999 I have been primarily involved in the areas of fraud, insolvency and forensic accounting. At various times I have served as CEO, Chapter 11 Trustee and Restructuring Officer for various companies in bankruptcy. I have also written expert reports and testified as an expert witness on several occasions. Professional Qualifications
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