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Tim Anderson is a Senior Managing Director in the Technology segment and is based in San Francisco. He has over twenty years’ experience in legal technology as an e-discovery consultant, paralegal, programmer, and application development manager.

Mr. Anderson currently leads the Emerging Data Sources Team at FTI. In this role he is responsible for directing data identification, integration, preservation, collection, and analysis strategy and workflows to support clients in an ever-changing digital and regulatory landscape. With a deep background in digital forensics, application development, and e-discovery systems, the Emerging Data Sources Team have conducted investigations and collected evidence in matters involving data in Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and many other cloud-based systems.

A frequent speaker on topics related to emerging data discovery, Mr. Anderson is a regular contributor at events like Relativity Fest, LegalWeek, Today’s General Counsel Institute, and Women in E-Discovery. Mr. Anderson is also a regular guest lecturer on e-discovery topics at UC Hastings College of Law and USC Law School and has authored numerous articles on e-discovery in publications like Law.com, e-Week, and ARMA Information Management Magazine.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Anderson worked as a consultant with the e-discovery advisory firm, Strategic Discovery, Inc. At Strategic Discovery Mr. Anderson was responsible for the creation and development of a structured data analytics practice group to focus on the technical aspects of data discovery in enterprise systems.  Mr. Anderson was also responsible for creating, building and leading Strategic Discovery’s Data Processing Team.

Meredith Brown is a Senior Managing Director in the Technology segment and is based in Chicago. She is one of the leaders within FTI Technology’s global law department operations practice.

Meredith is an expert in advising legal departments on their digital journeys to optimize the customer experience and transform the legal function. She works closely with clients to enhance service delivery to legal department partners, increase productivity, and drive revenue generation opportunities through innovative approaches leveraging design thinking principles and agile methodologies.  Meredith has a proven track record of devising and implementing end-to-end digital transformation solutions incorporating strategy, technology, people, and process improvement.

Prior to FTI Technology, Meredith worked at UnitedLex, Consilio and Huron Consulting Group assisting corporate legal departments with business process improvement, strategic planning, and enablement through the use of technology solutions.

Meredith earned her B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College and her JD from Villanova University.

Mike Carter is an expert in digital assets, regulatory compliance, and financial crimes investigations. Mr. Carter has extensive experience providing advisory and investigative services for financial crime matters globally, including leading complex engagements for financial institutions, digital asset service providers, construction firms, manufacturing and distribution companies, and utilities services to address risk and compliance concerns.

Mr. Carter most recently served as the Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) from 2020 to 2023 at a major digital asset exchange where he led the scaling and redesign of the global compliance program addressing issues related to money laundering, sanctions, fraud, data privacy and protection, market surveillance, product risks, licensing and regulatory examinations.

In addition to his experience as CCO, Mr. Carter has led numerous compliance and regulatory projects at global consulting firms, including addressing regulatory risks at numerous digital asset companies during startup and growth phases, supporting government-appointed monitors, conducting sensitive investigations for high-profile matters, building executable compliance roadmaps and implementing data models to assess risk.

Mr. Carter served as the Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”)/Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) Committee Chair for the Virtual Commodity Association from 2019 to 2020 and on the AML Committee for TRUST Travel Rule from 2020 to 2023. A frequent contributor to financial crimes industry publications, Mr. Carter has been featured in Bloomberg Law, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Law Journal.

Mr. Carter is a United States Army veteran and served in Operation Enduring Freedom. He also serves as a board member of The Ability Experience.

Angela Eavy has extensive experience handling complex electronic records and discovery issues. As a Senior Managing Director expert within the Technology segment, Ms. Eavy brings more than 20 years of legal experience assisting corporations and their counsel with their e-discovery challenges. Her experience spans numerous industries, including pharmaceutical, health care, technology, financial and automotive.

Ms. Eavy specializes in the coordination and management of large scale, multinational discovery services in support of investigations, litigation and regulatory response. She has handled all aspects of the e-discovery lifecycle across matters ranging from HSR Second Request antitrust investigations and multidistrict litigations to Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Ms. Eavy has overseen document reviews, prepared privilege logs and in camera submissions, drafted affidavits and assisted counsel in responding to discovery-related questions from regulators. She aids counsel with the development of discovery strategies and selection of technologies, and specializes in risk identification and mitigation with a focus on reducing costs for her clients. Ms. Eavy routinely oversees global matters facing inquiry from numerous regulators and named in multiple lawsuits, which involve coordination among a large number of parties, regulators, law firms and vendors.

In close partnership with her clients, Ms. Eavy also develops communication protocols and case management plans that allow for seamless delivery across matters while managing competing deadlines and priorities. Additionally, she supports solution development and implementation legal operations, including strategic transformation, spend reduction and risk management.Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Eavy held senior positions within a Big 4 consulting firm, where she led large-scale discovery matters and supported the practice in navigating emerging data sources. She also served as an e-discovery attorney in the product liability group at Sidley Austin, where she advised clients in major mass tort and product liability litigation, with a specific focus on pharmaceutical defense. Ms. Eavy also developed knowledge management processes and vendor management protocols and managed hundreds of document review attorneys in this role. She is a licensed attorney admitted to practice in Illinois and also a Certified Information Privacy Manager. She holds law degrees from Syracuse University and Loyola University.

Veeral Gosalia is a Senior Managing Director in the FTI Technology segment and is based in New York. Mr. Gosalia’s areas of expertise include data preservation, data analysis, computer forensics and e-discovery. He has assisted attorneys and corporations in understanding the issues surrounding electronic evidence—including the acquisition, analysis and production of data. His industry experience includes the health care, consumer and industrial goods, entertainment, biotech, food retail and service, hospitality and insurance sectors.

Mr. Gosalia has extensive computer forensics experience and has assisted in forensic acquisition and examination of computer systems, e-mail and various types of computer media. He has acquired several hundred computer images and coordinated seizure efforts across the world. Additionally, Mr. Gosalia has experience in EU data privacy issues regarding computer acquisitions and tape restorations and has been an expert witness—providing expert reports in matters related to evidence destruction and theft, spoliation and chain of custody issues.

Mr. Gosalia has worked on large electronic discovery document processing and review projects and is trained in Attenex Patterns, Ringtail, and several litigation support packages. Having set up several remote data processing and review sites across the world, he has processed foreign language data and developed machine language translation workflows. Select experience in this area includes leading the processing and searching of terabytes of multi language data documents—including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, German, and Portuguese—for a major health care firm.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Gosalia worked at Deloitte & Touche in the Dispute Consulting Technology practice. There he assisted with the development of a national practice technology infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a computer consultant at Baruch Computing and Technology Center where he diagnosed and repaired hardware, software and networking issues for the entire campus.

Mr. Gosalia received his Bachelors in Business Administration degree in computer information systems at Baruch College.

David Grant is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in New York. Mr. Grant is in the Technology segment. He focuses on planning and managing discovery strategies for and across major litigations involving large data volumes, tight deadlines, and international data collection, on the use of machine learning and visual analytics to build case knowledge and reduce discovery costs, and on discovery readiness projects involving proactive planning for ongoing litigation needs. His understanding of both substantive client goals and the technical side of discovery enable him to provide experienced strategic leadership in complex litigation matters and readiness projects.

Mr. Grant has been involved in the legal industry for over 15 years, and has worked on a wide range of matters including multiple Hart-Scott-Rodino second requests, international cartel investigations, Securities class actions, large-scale commercial litigation, and a number of product liability MDLs. As an early example, he played key roles in the electronic discovery processes attendant the HP/Compaq and Oracle/PeopleSoft mergers, managing the combined resources of the corporations, law firms, subcontractors and multiple processing vendors to assure timely completion of the projects. Mr. Grant recently also managed the team assisting a major automotive company facing multiple product liability litigations and investigations with tens of millions of pages under review, and is currently leading a number of FCPA-related international matters for major corporations.

Mr. Grant leads FTI Technology’s predictive coding and visual analytics practice, and routinely advises clients on best practices in this area including around technology application, appropriate workflows, and substantive and statistical confirmation of the results. He has also led international best practices engagements assessing the technology, human and physical resources for electronic discovery of large law firms, suggesting ways in which these firms could further excel and laying the foundation for dramatic improvements in profitability and associate satisfaction.

Prior to his work with Strategic Discovery, Mr. Grant worked as a paralegal and then as a Litigation Support Analyst in Washington, D.C. and New York City with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He focused on major antitrust and commercial litigation cases with heavy discovery requirements, and was responsible for planning and strategy assistance for electronic discovery and trial preparation for litigation teams. Mr. Grant clerked for Freehill, Hollingdale and Page and for the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office.

Mr. Grant graduated with Honors 1st Class from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia with a major in Politics and Philosophy from the UNSW Arts faculty and a major in Law from the UNSW Law School.

Wafik Guirgis is a longtime expert in law department management and was an early leader in establishing the legal operations discipline. Mr. Guirgis has spent more than two decades helping corporate clients improve legal operations by developing long term strategic plans, evaluating technology and leading large-scale and complex solution implementations. He works with general counsel and legal operations leaders to best capitalize on the transformative aspects of legal operations technology implementations by helping set the stage for change and effective governance before and after implementation.

Mr. Guirgis has helped his clients optimize and automate business processes, structure effective program governance and plan for and execute on change management approaches to drive technology adoption. His expertise in leveraging and analyzing data supports clients in gaining a holistic view of their challenges and opportunities to make informed decisions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Guirgis was a practice group leader at HBR Consulting, where he led both legal operations technology and contract lifecycle management service lines. He partnered with clients to develop legal technology strategy, solve technical, legal and business process issues. He has also held legal operations and leadership roles at PwC, Huron Consulting, Deloitte and Merrill Lynch.

Brett Harrison is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Digital Forensics & Investigations practice and is based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Harrison has over 25 years of experience related to the forensic examination of computers, computer media and electronic devices.

Mr. Harrison is a recognized testifying expert in digital forensics and works with clients around the world. His clients include major companies within the areas of technology, banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, mining, manufacturing and other industries. He regularly assists clients through investigations, helping them to understand their options when responding to government subpoenas and requests from opposing parties. He also assists clients in examining the methods and procedures used by opposing digital forensic experts. Mr. Harrison has authored hundreds of expert reports and has testified over 20 times in areas related to digital forensics, evidence spoliation, electronic discovery and electronics.

Mr. Harrison’s current focus is on advancing FTI Consulting’s Global Digital Forensic & Investigations practices. His work involves driving the development of new digital forensic experts and with transforming FTI Consulting’s global digital forensic infrastructure to advance expertise, automation and efficiency.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Harrison was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at its headquarter locations in Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland. During much of his 15-year career with the FBI, he worked as an FBI Headquarters Digital Forensics Examiner and also as an FBI Headquarters Supervisor on related programs and projects. He also testified in many high-profile trials and he led many high-profile computer networking and forensic tool development projects.

Andrew Johnston is a Senior Managing Director in the Discovery practice within the Technology segment at FTI Consulting. He is based in Wayne.

As an expert in e-discovery technology, Mr. Johnston helps clients across the lifecycle of the discovery process, including the review and production of electronic data.

Mr. Johnston also leads consulting efforts across the lifecycle of complex litigations, investigations and transactions. He leverages expertise in various technical solutions and document review platforms to decrease litigation costs by improving the speed, accuracy and defensibility of the discovery process. Last but not least, Mr. Johnston specializes in developing efficient workflow solutions and meeting complex production specifications across a variety of client industries and matters.

Mr. Johnston's recent engagements include providing workflow, production and analytical consulting to clients in the energy sector to respond to multi-district litigation discovery requests and governmental inquiries from various agencies. Additionally, he has worked closely with law firms and corporate counsel to develop defensible acquisition, review and production procedures for a large pharmaceutical client's responses to requests from various states's Attorneys General.

Mr. Johnston has extensive experience leading analytical research efforts focused on identifying key factual material quickly and efficiently for internal investigation interviews, depositions and trials. He is currently working with a large pharmaceutical client by managing the day-to-day consulting, document review, analytics research and production efforts for an ongoing investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Wendy King brings more than 20 years of experience in e-discovery practice support, working alongside legal and technology teams to find the most efficient use of litigation technology.

Ms. King has worked with leading law firms, government agencies and corporate clients to respond to complex litigations, regulatory investigations and a range of large evidence management and litigation support projects. She is a seasoned business and operational leader with an extensive background in legal technology design and deployment, project management and service delivery. She has worked on a wide range of matters, including multiple Hart-Scott-Rodino Second Requests, international investigations, securities class actions, large-scale commercial litigation and several product liability MDLs.

Having advised corporations and law firms through investigations, complex multi-jurisdictional litigations and regulatory inquiries, Ms. King understands the importance of delivering exemplary client service alongside highly experienced experts that can solve complex challenges. Working with colleagues to bring new FTI Consulting solutions to market, Ms. King is dedicated to ensuring clients have access to the most qualified representation with teams they can trust for individual matters and over long-term engagements.

Mike Kinnaman leads go-to-market strategy for the Technology segment as the global head of business development and marketing. With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Kinnaman has a long track record of introducing new and innovative technology, services and commercial models, including artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for the legal market. He contributes to various FTI Consulting AI working groups to drive meaningful innovation across e-discovery, investigations, information governance, data privacy and corporate legal department offerings.

As part of the Technology senior leadership team, Mr. Kinnaman leads the segment’s growth strategy, including the identification and commercialization of new solutions across the Digital Insights & Risk Management framework. Through this initiative, and in close partnership with FTI Technology’s global experts, Mr. Kinnaman synthesizes corporate and law firm client needs with market trends and technology advancements to bring practical, efficient and results-oriented offerings to the market.

Mr. Kinnaman drove global double-digital, organic, year-over-year growth for FTI Technology globally between 2017 and 2023. Additionally, he served as a key decision maker and leader in building and growing the Digital Insights & Risk Management framework, as well as launching new practice areas, including Information Governance, Privacy & Security, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Emerging Data Sources, and AI-focused tools, advisory and services. He also built a successful sales, business development and marketing organization within the segment, introducing effective go-to-market strategies from the technology industry into a professional services setting.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting via the firm’s acquisition of Attenex Corporation in 2008, Mr. Kinnaman was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Attenex, a globally renowned e-discovery and visual analytics platform that pioneered the use of AI and machine learning for e-discovery. He also previously held marketing leadership positions within technology companies in business intelligence software, graphics processing and storage. Mr. Kinnaman was also a founding member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (“EDRM”) and a contributor to other legal technology industry associations.

Kathryn McCarthy is a Senior Managing Director in the FTI Consulting Technology practice and is based in Washington, D.C. She has over 18 years of experience in the legal industry with a special focus on Second Request antitrust investigations and electronic discovery processes. Over the course of her career, she has managed electronic discovery responses for over 40 second requests, and is an expert in optimizing electronic discovery software, workflow and legal professionals to ensure excellence in delivery for legal clients.

On behalf of global companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, high tech and manufacturing, Ms. McCarthy has handled the entire electronic discovery process. As an example, on a recent antitrust engagement, she negotiated the discovery protocols with the government, worked with clients to identify relevant data, and developed and managed the discovery budget and workflows, including the foreign language review conducted in Asia. She also trained corporate counsel in Asia on the required workflow.

In addition to Ms. McCarthy's antitrust and electronic discovery process expertise, she regularly manages and advises on issues relating to global data privacy laws. She has led global electronic discovery investigations in response to U.S. States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, requiring an in-depth understanding of data privacy laws and practical knowledge for coordinating the appropriate technology, staff and budget to respond in compliance to these laws.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. McCarthy held the position of Counsel for Simpson Thacher. Her responsibilities included maximizing efficiencies in the handling of substantial discovery projects. She routinely negotiated and implemented electronic discovery protocols with both governmental agencies and private parties. She supervised all aspects of the electronic discovery process on behalf of clients, from legal holds and data retrieval managing and monitoring productivity and accuracy of review attorneys operating under extremely tight deadlines.

Steve McNew provides strategic advice and expert services for companies in the blockchain and digital assets sector and corporations looking to innovate with these technologies. He has led more than 80 cryptocurrency investigations and has offered testimony as a digital assets expert 18 times in the United States and once in Australia.

Mr. McNew is the global lead of the Blockchain and Digital Assets practice leading engagements focused on crypto-native entities involved in bankruptcy, restructuring, M&A, due diligence, investigations, strategy and innovation. He has led large-scale blockchain technology implementation projects including smart contract development combined with AI and IoT devices and provided forensic investigations expertise into disputes involving various forms of cryptocurrencies.

In addition to Mr. McNew’s crypto assets and blockchain experience, he leads large-scale engagements for clients in data governance and data privacy, has authored an enterprise search patent application and has led a myriad of engagements related to emerging technologies and digital forensics for 32 years.

Chris Mitchell has been providing 16 years of service with FTI Consulting, he has served as a technical expert of our E-discovery offering leading large engagements in the Financial Services sector. He also has managed several Information Governance projects for large Fortune 500 clients assisting them to improve operations, reduce risk and defensibly dispose of data.

Mr. Mitchell leads our North American account management and sales organization. He is a strong collaborator who establishes successful and productive relationships with clients, who view him as a widely trusted partner.

Mr. Mitchell first started working with electronic discovery software in 2000 with an Internet startup, ASPORA, where he was the Director of Consulting and Business Development. Mr. Mitchell’s responsibilities included project plan design, project implementation, coding specifications creation, data modeling, training and support.

In addition to extensive training, knowledge and experience with electronic discovery tools, Mr. Mitchell has been HelpDesk2000 Certified, I-Manage Training Certified and Interaction Implementation Certified. Before working with Ringtail Inc., Mr. Mitchell worked with SSG Inc., managing technology integrations and software upgrades for clients.

Andrew Shaxted is an interdisciplinary technologist and lawyer specializing in privacy engineering, data and analytics, ad tech, digital forensics and privacy governance. Mr. Shaxted works with clients across all industries, with special emphasis and expertise in healthcare, ad tech and technology, media and telecommunications. Mr. Shaxted also has experience supporting organizations in developing compliance and technology strategy for retail media networks.

Mr. Shaxted leads complex investigations that concern the alleged improper use of analytics trackers and pixels. Mr. Shaxted developed FTI Consulting's forensics-based approach for programmatically scanning, collecting, and assessing pixel and analytics tracker data for compliance and litigation purposes. He is experienced in supporting counsel in all-manner of ad tech technical subject matter including media response, regulator information requests, breach notification and litigation technical memoranda. Mr. Shaxted’s work in this space has concerned various federal and state regulatory regimes (FTC, HIPAA, VPPA, CCPA, CMIA and various rules established under the California Department of Public Health).

Mr. Shaxted’s practice also specializes in the design, development and management of global data privacy risk and compliance programs. Mr. Shaxted applies industry-standard enterprise risk management (e.g. NIST SP 800-37, R2) and strategy frameworks to develop effective privacy risk management functions. Mr. Shaxted has experience in program financial planning, target operating model development, technology implementation, policy development and implementation. He has hands-on experience with common cloud infrastructure providers (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure) and takes a product/technology-centric approach to understanding and addressing organizational data privacy risk.

Mr. Shaxted has appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to discuss the implications of California's data privacy laws and frequently shares his insights in articles, webinars and at industry conferences.

Mr. Shaxted holds a B.A. from Purdue University, a J.D. from DePaul University and CIPM, CIPP/E and CIPP/US certifications. Mr. Shaxted is licensed to practice law in Illinois.

Andrew Szwez is a Senior Managing Director in the FTI Consulting Technology practice and is based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Szwez has more than 15 years of experience in computer systems, data analysis and electronic discovery. He has advised corporations and law firms conducting investigations, managing complex multi-jurisdictional litigations, and complying with regulatory inquiries. He has served clients in the pharmaceutical, automotive and financial services industries, among others.

Mr. Szwez has significant experience in the areas of data processing, analysis, review and production. He has led teams on matters involving tens of millions of documents including multiple foreign languages.

Prior to joining FTI Consuting, Mr. Szwez was employed as a senior application engineer for Vista Innovation. During that time, he designed and developed complex data driven workflow systems for the Drug Enforcement Administration. His responsibilities included software design, data modeling and coding complex business logic.

Daryl Teshima is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Technology practice and is based in Los Angeles. Mr. Teshima assists clients with the electronic data discovery process in litigation and government investigations, and in developing in-house corporate e-discovery and records management programs. He has more than 15 years of experience in information management and litigation support.

Mr. Teshima has wide experience in the issues presented by electronic discovery, including data acquisitions and examinations, analysis and conversion of structured and unstructured data, and review and production of electronic documents, databases and web sites. He also advises on information management, helping agencies and companies update their approach to records management in the electronic age. His responsibilities span from managing examinations and investigations of computer data to the daily management of electronic discovery consulting staff.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Teshima managed Operations for KPMG’s Forensic Technology service, which encompassed the implementation of SOC-2 Type-A certified electronic data procedures and the establishment of globally consistent methodologies that included implementing kCura Relativity in more than 15 geographies and establishing a follow-the-sun support plan. Mr. Teshima was also a principal of Strategic Discovery, Inc., which was acquired by FTI Consulting in 2008 and which he co-founded in 2002. In addition, Mr. Teshima was Director of Practice Systems for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he guided the Firm’s application of technology to the practice of law.

Colleen Casey Voshell is a Senior Managing Director in the FTI Consulting Technology practice and is based in Philadelphia. In this role, Ms. Voshell focuses on advising clients on a variety of electronic discovery issues and managing electronic discovery projects. She has over ten years of experience advising clients in major mass tort and product liability litigation, including litigations involving a cholesterol lowering medication, latex gloves, asbestos, an anti-inflammatory medication, an atypical antipsychotic medication and an automobile manufacturer.

Ms. Voshell has extensive experience with a broad array of evolving electronic discovery issues. Specifically, she played an integral role in coordinating discovery in a large products liability multidistrict litigation. Working with technical resources at the company, counsel and technology consultants, Ms. Voshell coordinated the acquisition, analysis, review and production of an immense volume (over 60 terabytes) of both unstructured and structured data under a very tight schedule. In addition, Ms. Voshell represented company witnesses during meet and confer interviews conducted by the opposing party. She participated in mediations overseen by a court-appointed special master of electronically stored information and negotiated agreements regarding the scope and timing of productions with opposing counsel.

Ms. Voshell’s electronic discovery experience also includes planning, organizing and supervising document reviews, incorporating predictive coding into review workflows and assisting law firms and corporate clients in setting up efficient workflows that minimize re-review of documents. Ms. Voshell regularly helps law firms and the corporate client coordinate on electronic discovery issues. Ms. Voshell has been responsible for all aspects of large case management, including establishing and maintaining relationships with counsel and client personnel, billing and fee collection, training of managers, senior consultants and staff, and overseeing analysis and production of work product deliverables.

Ms. Voshell also has a broad range of experience in numerous aspects of trial work, particularly in mass torts and product liability actions. This experience includes taking and defending depositions of plaintiffs, prescribing and treating physicians, fact and expert witnesses. She has conducted arbitrations and drafted and argued motions before trial courts. She has significant experience in class certification issues. Ms. Voshell also has developed expert witnesses in different disciplines. She is well-versed in various mechanisms used by state and federal courts to coordinate mass litigations for pre-trial, trial and settlement purposes.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Voshell was an associate at Dechert LLP where she focused on mass tort and product liability litigation.

Ashley Brickles is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. She is a member of the EMEA Technology Consulting practice and is based in London.

Ms. Brickles has over 15 years of experience specializing in the use of technology to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for her clients. She is known for her expertise in leading teams of technical experts and using cutting-edge technologies to drive successful outcomes for her clients.

Ms. Brickles specializes in large, complex multi-jurisdictional regulatory investigations and has led some of the most demanding European cartel and merger-clearance cases over the past decade.

Ms. Brickles is frequently called upon by her financial services, life sciences, and manufacturing clients to create and implement defensible workflows to address large data volumes, data privacy issues, and cross-border challenges, including the review and analysis of non-traditional data sources.

Ms. Bryant is a Senior Managing Director in the Technology segment and Head of the UK Information Governance, Privacy & Security practice, based in London. Ms. Bryant is a strategic data expert, experienced in leading complex global regulatory, data protection and business transformation programs to deliver world-class solutions.

Ms. Bryant’s experience includes formulating program strategies that align competing cross-functional agendas to achieve compliance and risk reduction objectives; rapidly assessing data governance and privacy maturity to build robust governance frameworks and operating models; leveraging technology, data governance and privacy subject matter expertise to drive privacy by design, define business architecture and design software solutions.

Ms. Bryant specializes in combining data expertise across legal, compliance, privacy and risk to enable business transformation and build cultures of compliance and collaboration in combination with effective technology solutions. Prior to FTI she led a number of data governance and regulatory compliance programs at Deutsche Bank and IBM.

Jon Chan is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. He is a member of the Technology practice and is based in London. Jon creates innovative solutions for clients using a combination of off-the-shelf systems, and custom developed tooling to solve complex structured and unstructured data challenges.

Jon has led on a number of high profile, multi-terabyte e-discovery engagements supporting construction, IT and class actions across the globe, and has set up and delivered privacy reviews to support the exfiltration of data in numerous countries, most notably in China and Germany.

Jon is familiar across all areas of the EDRM, having orchestrated complex forensic collection exercises in dawn raid, and public inquiry work, designed numerous data processing workflows, and architecting and managing reviews, including both the use of a full range of analytics tooling, as well as organising teams of document reviewers to support his clients.

Jon has designed and created solutions in numerous spaces including contract management and due diligence, transaction review for sanctions compliance, trader surveillance, PII identification and redaction, and fully managed e-discovery environments for law firms, government agencies and corporations. Jon is familiar with a broad range of technologies including cloud, micro services and serverless, and holds a number of Relativity and AWS technical certifications.

Sonia Cheng leads the EMEA Information Governance Privacy & Security (IGPS) practice and is a world-renowned expert in Information Governance and GDPR, handling high-stakes regulatory challenges with data at their heart. Throughout her distinguished career of over 22 years, she has led hundreds of engagements with Global 500 firms with a focus on financial services, insurance, healthcare and life sciences.

Ms. Cheng’s diverse, hands-on experience enables her to solve clients’ most pressing challenges at the intersection of data and regulation. Her domain expertise and extensive stakeholder management, technology and change management experience enables her to successfully navigate highly complex matters. She previously led the European Information Governance practice at IBM, holding senior leadership roles in global services, product management and business development for legal, retention, privacy and analytics solutions. During her tenure at IBM, Sonia was the co-inventor and holds a patent in IT Storage optimisation.

Prior to IBM, Ms. Cheng led professional services at PSS Systems and technology consulting roles at Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. Sonia was also a co-founder of a Silicon Valley based technology non-profit organization which provided technology transformation services to NGOs. She is a frequent speaker and published thought leader and has been featured as a Who’s Who Legal Top Expert in Information Governance and Privacy in 2019 and 2020.

Craig provides strategic advice to clients across all areas of FTI’s Technology offering and provides specific counsel to clients in the areas of European Union-based evidence collection and disclosure, computer-based forensics and electronic data hosting for litigation and regulatory enquiries.

His engagement experience over his almost 25 years focused solely on electronic evidence and complex data matters includes multi-jurisdictional investigations and regulatory enquiries relating to anti-competitive behaviour, cartels, price-fixing, and merger clearance in addition to fraud, bribery and corruption investigations, and intellectual property theft.

Craig has provided both written and oral expert evidence in the High Court in London, and has testified at depositions in the United States, as well as submitting written expert evidence into other forums such as employment tribunals and arbitrations.

Craig has provided forensic technology counsel to clients on some of the most complex and demanding matters that have taken place over the last twenty years, including the recent LIBOR and Foreign Exchange regulatory investigations.

These matters have required him to undertake detailed work in industries including financial services, manufacturing, banking and petrochemicals, and in jurisdictions throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

Richard Palmer is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. He is a member of the Technology practice and is based in the London office. Richard brings over 20 years of experience having held senior positions in software engineering, strategy consulting, cloud-based data analytics and forensics. During this time Richard has worked with many of the world’s leading organisations in financial services, telecoms, media and travel.

Richard works with clients to use sophisticated technology to address complex legal, regulatory and business matters, including financial fraud investigation, compliance process enhancement and customer remediation. He brings deep domain expertise in developing and applying bespoke analytics solutions through the entire lifecycle, from original idea, through to implementation and benefit realisation.

Richard managed a portfolio of large-scale customer rectification programmes for a UK high street bank in order to return historical arrears management fees back to the customer. This entailed data extraction from multiple lending platforms, calculation of redress payments, customer tracing and payments. During this programme Richard developed a fully automated solution that has returned hundreds of millions of pounds in fees to over a million individual customers with minimal manual intervention or error.

Richard has also worked extensively with a Tier 1 investment bank throughout the Global FX Investigation. Richard led the team that undertook the investigation into a six-year back-book of FX trading and developed key insights on trading behaviour that were used to support settlement with the global regulators. These insights were subsequently integrated into custom built compliance monitoring solutions to form part of the remediation plan set-out by the regulators. This compliance monitoring solution and supporting business processes have been BAU across the bank for over three years and enjoyed positive feedback from its user groups. Due to this extensive work during the investigation and remediation, the bank benefitted from substantially lower fine from the regulators.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Richard held a position within EY’s forensics and integrity services practice. Previously Richard was European Head of Software & Science for Opera Solutions working in Big Data analytics and has also held senior positions in management consulting and strategy consulting firms.

Richard holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, as well as an M.B.A. with an emphasis in Strategic Management.

Scott leads the Technology team in Australia and specialises in litigation discovery, electronic discovery and analysis, document review workflow consultation, and database/repository management.

With over 20 years’ experience in electronic discovery, Scott has served as lead technological consultant and project manager for large scale litigation and investigations involving international and domestic corporations.

These matters include antitrust investigations, second requests, FCPA investigations, state secret review, joint defense, class actions, multi‐jurisdictional litigation, criminal sanctions investigations, product liability, intellectual property.

Scott regularly advises law firms and corporate clients on the design and implementation of review strategies for complex litigation, the use of predictive coding, analytics, search terms and refinement, on site managed review, and complex litigation e‐discovery review platforms.

Michael Khoury specialises in forensic technology, cybersecurity, electronic discovery and dispute advisory, with more than 19 years of industry experience. He is frequently retained as an expert witness in matters requiring the application of computer forensic skills to provide answers to legal and investigative cases.

Mr. Khoury has advised clients on high profile investigations and electronic discovery assignments in the corporate, government and legal fields. He has led a range of matters as an independent expert witness and consulting expert on behalf of companies in the financial services, healthcare, energy, retail and insurance industries.

Mr. Khoury’s focus areas include investigations into data breaches, intellectual property theft, breaches of confidentiality, employment and workplace disputes and financial fraud. He has also led complex electronic discovery assignments pertaining to commercial litigation, Royal Commissions, regulatory notices, parliamentary notices and subpoenas to produce.

Mr. Khoury has provided written and oral evidence as a testifying expert in criminal and civil proceedings and arbitrations. He has also led and managed civil (Anton Piller) and criminal-based search warrants on behalf of government bodies and law firms in local and multi-jurisdiction territories. He is well versed in the preparation and delivery of analysis results to the state and federal courts.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Khoury was the partner and national leader of the forensic technology and e-discovery division of a Big Four firm and held a similar role in a specialist boutique firm.

Antonio Gesteira is a seasoned e-discovery and forensic technology expert with more than 20 years of experience in supporting complex investigations and litigations.

Mr. Gesteira has delivered more than 300 projects spanning emerging technology, data services, information security, internal and external audit support and electronic tax consulting across a variety of industries. He has led large investigations and risk management efforts in Brazil and internationally. As the Technology segment’s leader for the Brazilian market, Mr. Gesteira works with clients to address a broad range of corporate risk and respond to high-stakes legal and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting’s Technology segment, Mr. Gesteira was Managing Director of the forensic practice at ICTS Protiviti in Brazil, where he served as a leader for computer forensic investigations, e-discovery vendor management, cyber response services and data services. In that role, he grew the practice through the creation of new capabilities and extending the team’s reach to clients in previously unaddressed industry segments.

Mr. Gesteira has also held e-discovery and forensic technology roles within Big Four consulting firms, including serving as a partner and head of the forensic practice at KPMG Brazil, where he earned numerous accolades for his market leadership.

Mr. Gesteira earned a B.A. degree in business administration with a specialization in international trade from Universidade São Judas Tadeu, a post-degree in information technology with a specialization in internet consultancy from Faculdades Associadas de São Paulo and completed the Washington D.C. Latin America Leadership Development Program in leadership, coaching and innovation at Georgetown University.

Mr. Gesteira also completed the KPMG Risk University Advanced Program Governance, Risk and Compliance specialization for board and committee members. Mr. Gesteira is also an educator in legal, ethics, compliance, fraud, M&A and emerging technology risk in professorial roles at LEC Legal, Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Faculdade Instituto de Administração and Mackenzie University. He is a native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English and an advanced Spanish speaker.

David Meadows is a Senior Managing Director that leads FTI Consulting’s Canada and U.S. Midwest Technology teams specializing in electronic discovery, data analytics, cyber response and digital forensics. David has assisted clients with investigations and litigation technology in the Financial, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Energy, Mining, Government and Telecom industries. He has more than twenty years of experience in investigations, civil litigation, class-action litigation, multi–party litigation and regulatory matters.

David has led numerous projects nationally and internationally for companies and their counsel to decrease the cost and risk associated with data analysis and electronic discovery. Utilizing his strong project management and technical background, he has significant experience with complex data analysis, information planning, data preservation, data collection, data processing and data visualization. Additionally, David has a broad background in technology software design and development, enterprise networking and system implementations.

Karl Payeur leads a multidisciplinary team of experts in France to help clients navigate their most complex issues. He has a wide range of experience in Forensic Investigation, Compliance, Regulatory, Financial Crime, and Forensic technology. He has led many high-profile complex global matters during his 25+ year career.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Karl was a Big 4 partner and held a variety of senior leadership roles in different countries, including acting as the Regional Leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa of the Forensic practice.

Karl has led large corruption and fraud investigations for international corporations involving evidence gathering and analysis, complex data and analytics, and interviews throughout North America, Europe, French-speaking Africa, and Asia, as well as liaising with multiple white-collar crime lawyers in France, Asia, the UK, and the US.

Over the years, Karl had been involved with assisting French lawyers and their clients collect, process, and analyze a significant volume of data for internal investigations or in response to regulatory requests with allegations of wrongdoing. Some of these allegations include antitrust behavior or suspected violations of anti-corruption regulations. Karl has also served as an expert witness on litigation and commercial dispute matters related to damages assessments in ICC arbitration and other court venues.

In addition, Karl provides strategic advice to clients to help them anticipate, navigate crises, and leverage technology in a constantly changing regulatory environment.

Thomas Sely is a Senior Managing Director in the Technology segment and is based in Paris. A member of the E-Discovery Consulting & Services practice, Mr. Sely advises corporates and law firms in France and abroad on the management of electronic evidence and the use of forensic technologies in global dispute resolution, regulatory investigation and compliance internal audits.

Some of Mr. Sely’s most recent engagements include: U.S. discovery involving French companies, response to investigations and dawn raids conducted by competition authorities (“Autorité de la Concurrence”, DGGCRF and the European Commission), the French Financial Prosecution Office (“PNF”) and the French Stock Market Regulator (“AMF”), internal fraud and corruption investigation, unfair competition and information theft.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Sely held different consultative and business development positions in the legal technologies industry. He started his career as an in-house counsel.

Mr. Sely holds a Master Degree’s in Business Law from the University of Lyon and a Master of Business Administration from the iaelyon School of Management. He often speaks at conferences and writes articles about the role of technologies in tackling legal and regulatory issues. He also teaches technologies in the Compliance Diploma program of Paris II Pantheon Assas University.

Renato Fazzone is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is a member of the Technology practice based in the Düsseldorf office, which he founded in 2020. He works solely in the technology field.

Renato has worked exclusively in the technology field since the early 2000s, and he has amassed considerable experience in both the technical and strategic application of technology regarding regulatory requirements, as well as those of the clients he represents. He has helped clients navigate corporate fraud matters such as corruption, asset misappropriation, financial statement fraud and antitrust violations. He has extensive expertise in a wide array of industries, having assisted clients in a range of misconduct issues.

In his current role, Renato constantly applies cutting-edge technology, helping clients identify hard facts related to highly sensitive cases. He has worked closely with management or supervisory boards and, if necessary, reported back to regulatory authorities such as the SEC, DOJ, DFS, FSO, the European Commission, local prosecutors and local antitrust authorities.

Renato has provided advice on a wide variety of special investigations, including in industries such as financial services, banking, retail, automotive, construction, real estate and steel, as well as a variety of other manufacturing industries. He has also advised clients (together with the client’s legal advisors) on data leakage and intellectual property theft, as well as on competition and litigation issues. He has authored numerous articles that have been published in the European press and is a frequent conference speaker.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Renato was a Partner at BDO AG in Germany, heading their E-discovery and Computer Forensic service.

Sandeep Jadav is a Senior Managing Director and the Regional Lead for Technology in Asia at FTI Consulting. He is based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Jadav has over 17 years of experience working in forensic technology alongside top global law firms, corporates, financial service institutions and investigatory agencies.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Jadav worked as a director at a Big Four firm in London, overseeing a period of unprecedented growth in the Forensic Technology and Discovery Services team, while winning and delivering large e-discovery, digital forensics and cyber projects. Prior to that, he was Head of Computer Forensics at CRA International.

Mr. Jadav has extensive experience in delivering projects across the forensic technology spectrum, including:

• Acting as the lead in a coordinated global data collection that spanned over 15 countries and 500 custodians for a large, multinational car manufacturer.
• Working with a top U.S. law firm under Office of Foreign Assets Control orders to collect, link and investigate multiple terabytes of structured and unstructured data in relation to multi-million-dollar payments going in and out of sanctioned countries in the Middle East.
• Engineering and leading the on-site "clean-up" team following the most famous hack in history at a large global entertainment company, allowing the client to resume normal business operations within days.
• Giving evidence at the International Court of Arbitration following the identification, collection, processing, review and electronic disclosure of 10 terabytes of data in relation to an international dispute between companies in India and Italy.
• Helping win and deliver the largest e-discovery case in Europe, a £700 million dispute between the NHS and a large global technology firm, which has run for over nine years.

Mr. Jadav holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from King’s College London.

Baron Zhao is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is part of the Technology segment’s Asia leadership team. Mr. Zhao is based in Hong Kong and also supports the Shanghai office.

Mr. Zhao has extensive experience in digital forensics, e-discovery and information governance, and he has advised clients in a wide range of large-scale and complex matters including cross-border litigations and disputes, digital investigations, security risk assessment, incident response and regulatory inquiries across multiple jurisdictions including the United States, China and Hong Kong SAR.

Mr. Zhao has served clients across numerous sectors, including government, technology, manufacturing, gaming, financial services and life sciences.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Zhao held several leadership positions within a Big Four consulting firm in New York and Hong Kong, where he headed the firm’s U.S. e-discovery operations and later led the firm’s Hong Kong forensic technology services. He also served as the lead of the hosting services for another prominent digital forensics company in New York, where he managed a group of analysts in providing forensics, e-discovery and litigation support services.

Mr. Zhao holds an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University, and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Avigyan (Avi) Das is a seasoned professional with expertise in data analytics and investigations, and serves as a leader in the Technology segment’s practice in India. He brings more than 15 years of experience in digital forensics, risk management, compliance, regulatory investigations and e-discovery.

Mr. Das provides technology leadership and solutions for global clients facing a wide range of data challenges and investigations, including fraud, corruption, financial crime and regulatory compliance inquiries. He supports clients in developing complex programmes to drive efficiencies and improve outcomes in litigation and other legal matters, and has managed response to data breaches, risk and compliance programs and large scale remediations.

Mr. Das also supports solution development and implementation for the segment’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security offerings. He is experienced working with teams across Europe, Asia and the U.S.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Das held senior roles at numerous consulting firms, including serving in data analytics, e-discovery services and digital forensics practices within a Big Four firm.

Gráinne Bryan is a Senior Managing Director in the Technology segment and is based in Dublin. Ms. Bryan is a member of the E-Discovery Consulting & Services practice and has worked in the legal industry for more than two decades.

Throughout her career, Ms. Bryan has worked in a consultative capacity with law firms and corporate legal departments enabling them to effectively leverage technology and resources in all areas of legal practice. With deep expertise in general management, consulting, project management and legal professional experience, Ms. Bryan is an experienced leader and team builder in professional environments with a reputation for people management, talent sourcing, mentoring and communication.

A solution-orientated project manager who can formulate and drive a consistent approach towards all aspects of a project, Ms. Bryan has many years corporate exposure in delivering individual solutions to specific projects and has standardized workflows and processes for many projects involving all aspects of data identification, collection, production and review.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Bryan was instrumental in the setting up of some of Ireland’s primary and largest in-house e-discovery, project services and technology teams, assisting on many notable e-discovery, AI, corporate and regulatory projects.

Ms. Bryan is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of topics ranging from e-discovery, AI technology, the future workforce and legal cost control to leadership development, performance management and staff mentoring in today’s workplace. She was recognized at the 2018 Dublin Tech Summit at the Women in Tech Awards in the Digital Transformation category.

Gino Bello is a Senior Managing Director of FTI Consulting and leads the Technology segment in Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. Mr. Bello is a digital forensics expert – having given expert testimony and submitted expert reports and affidavits to courts and government in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines – and is a certified computer examiner.

Recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Digital Forensics, Mr. Bello has over sixteen years of experience in digital forensics, cybersecurity, e-discovery and litigation support, and IT. Mr. Bello has led a broad range of matters including regulatory investigations, high stakes investigations into data leakage, cross-border disputes, government enquiries, bribery & corruption, incident response, cyber risk and posture reviews, class actions, white collar crime, and other employee-related misconduct.

Mr. Bello has extensive experience across a wide range of sectors including financial services, insurance, technology, health and life sciences, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, gaming & leisure, and retail.

A member of the ISFCE and a board member of the HTCIA, Mr. Bello has held Australian Government security clearances and has completed postgraduate, undergraduate, and formal industry training in digital forensics. Mr. Bello has guest-lectured at the National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, and Melbourne University, has co-authored forensic policy for government, has authored a publication with CPA Australia and Singapore Management University’s School of Accountancy on digital forensics investigations, and provides commentary to media on cybersecurity.

Jerry Lay leads FTI Technology’s Switzerland office. He is an investigations and technology expert with more than 15 years of experience leading significant matters and advising clients on enhancing compliance frameworks and functions. He helps clients navigate complex data challenges and provides expertise in applying technology solutions to deliver insights and effectively manage risk. Mr. Lay’s experience includes overseeing numerous high-profile investigations related to allegations of fraud and corruption, misappropriation of assets, conflict of interest, market manipulation and data theft.

Mr. Lay’s work spans a range of global clients across the Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Industrial Products industries. He has led the creation of innovative, technology-enabled investigation methodologies that have been implemented across numerous matters, teams and geographies. Additionally, he has developed proactive compliance programs for clients, including the design and implementation of integrated culture and compliance frameworks. In doing so, Mr. Lay has helped clients evolve from a rigid, rules-based environment to a principle-based approach that enables compliance functions to add business value visibly and effectively. Mr. Lay also has extensive experience working in emerging markets, with a strong focus on Asia.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Lay was a part of the Disputes and Investigations team at Alvarez & Marsal in Switzerland. He previously spent more than 10 years with a Big Four firm in Switzerland where he held leadership positions in the Investigations and Digital Forensics practices and was also co-leader of the firm’s Switzerland-based Asia services desk. Additionally, Mr. Lay served as the global Chief Financial Officer for a pharmaceutical group headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, where he headed internal services across financial accounting and reporting, compliance and IT, was involved in numerous M&A projects that involved divestments of non-critical business units and strategic target acquisitions and acted as leader for operations in China and Singapore.

As a thought leader in Switzerland and broader business, risk and investigations communities, Mr. Lay has spoken at numerous events and shared insights regarding risk management for international business across Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Nick Athanasi is a seasoned expert in forensic technology, complex litigation and regulatory investigations. From the firm’s Dubai office, he leads the Technology segment across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa. He has more than 30 years of experience in technology consulting, e-discovery, forensic investigations and executive leadership.

Nick has led teams on many of EMEIA’s largest and most complex litigations and regulatory investigations. He has held leadership and founding roles at numerous consulting firms, including serving as partner and Middle East leader at Deloitte Forensic Technology.

Nick was also part of the leadership team that formed and grew FTI Consulting’s Technology segment in EMEIA from its inception in the U.K., through significant growth and expansion throughout the region.

Nick brings significant domain expertise in financial services (OFAC, LIBOR), pharmaceutical, transport, energy and technology sectors. His practice has spanned high-profile matters throughout the EMEIA region, in key areas including litigation, regulatory matters, security breaches and data privacy compliance.

Relevant Experience:

• Led e-discovery workstreams in relation to a multi-billion dollar tax fraud litigation in the U.K., U.S. and Middle East.
• Oversaw all aspects of U.K. litigation for a multi-jurisdictional investigation for a manufacturing client, over a multi-year period, involving onsite collection and review of more than 4,000 custodians, 3,500 business applications and 300 million documents.
• Provided strategic advice and led an OFAC compliance investigation of more than 1.3 billion records of financial data across 13 countries and a team of more than 600 reviewers.
• Led a global team of experts to conduct a large-scale complex data remediation, in a contentious trade secrets dispute between two Middle East-based multi-national organisations, in the pharmaceutical and health care industry.
• Headed a massive data discovery, preservation, and remediation exercise for intellectual property and confidential information across the entirety of the clients IT systems, databases, email environment, servers, file shares, applications, archives, and paper records, covering more than 10 locations in five countries and more than 1,200 data sources.