Regional Teams

Different Place, Different Perspectives. One Mission.

The ACi is organised along corporate lines. We have four regions, with the regional head sitting as a member of the Executive Committee to represent the region.

Regional Teams

ACi global presence through the appointment of Country Heads across multiple regions shows that exceptional talent exists worldwide, not in any single city, country, or continent. 

Our Country Heads bring diverse backgrounds and perspectives, they share one common goal: shaping the future of ACi.

Region: Europe & Africa

Jeff Giddings
Head of Europe and Africa
Jeff has over 30 years of experience in oversight and investigations, including leading and conducting internal and external corporate investigations across the private sector, multiple United Nations agencies, and other international organizations.
Ronan Guckian
Head of Ireland
Ronan Guckian is a qualified Barrister and Senior Investigator in MetLife’s Global Investigation Unit, leading investigations across the EMEA region. With more than 20 years’ experience in financial crime, AML, and regulatory compliance, he specializes in internal fraud, forgery and complex cases.
Andrew De Roy
Head of Poland
Andrew de Roy is the founder of Bearstone, a leading risk consulting firm based in Warsaw, Poland. Since establishing the company in 2007, he has grown it into one of Europe’s pre-eminent firms in the field, with offices in Warsaw, Berlin, and London, and a presence in Belgrade and France.
Johan Olsson
Head of Scandinavia
Johan is a compliance professional with more than 25 years of experience across anti-corruption, corporate investigations, compliance, and internal audit.
Anxo Lois Martinez
Head of Iberia
Anxo Lois Martínez is an experienced legal and compliance professional with almost two decades of international experience in corporate law, compliance and data protection.
Harjit Sanduh
Head of Belgium
Harjit Sandhu brings over four decades of experience in international investigations, anti-fraud and anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, human rights, humanitarian law, and civilian protection.
Emmanuel Pascal
Head of France
Emmanuel Pascal is an experienced fraud trainer (Dauphine PSL, Sorbonne, IIA France) and Condor Strike CEO, an investigation consulting firm that supports audit, compliance and forensics teams to use data in their investigation or to prevent fraud.
Joyce Nkini - Iwisi
Head of South Africa
Joyce is a Partner at HKA based in Johannesburg, leading investigations and compliance advisory work across Africa. With nearly two decades of experience in governance, compliance, risk management and forensic accounting, she has held senior roles at HKA, Control Risks, PwC and EY.
Yamini Patel
Head of UK
Yamini is a corporate investigations leader with over 22 years’ experience across professional services, financial services and technology. She spent over a decade advising multinational and cross-industry clients before moving in-house, ultimately serving as Director of Investigations for the UK and Europe at a major international financial institution.

Region: Asian Pacific

Cheryl O'Shea
Head of APAC
Cheryl O’Shea has over 20 years of experience in investigation and risk management and specialises in fraud and investigations within the IT industry. Her extensive investigation experience extends to conducting investigations involving fraud, corruption, money laundering, financial misconduct, non-compliance, and violation of company policies.
Yijun Zheng
Head of China
Yijun Zheng is ACi's China Regional Director and legal professional with extensive experience in commercial dispute resolution and labour law practice.
Shanu Saksena
Head of India
Shanu is Head of ACi India. She is an experienced ethics, compliance, governance, and corporate secretarial leader.
Kezia Hardingham
Head of Thailand
Kezia Hardingham is a Chartered Accountant and experienced investigations professional with a background in compliance, corporate intelligence, and forensic investigations.
David Steirn
Head of Australia
David is a lawyer and Director of Enterprise Investigations and investigates for corporate and government clients across all sectors, often where issues of regulatory and legal breach, serious misconduct or systemic failure arise at the highest levels.

Region: Latin America (LATAM)

Livia Gurgel
Head of LATAM
Livia started her career within Internal Audit and Risk management. She has more than 15 years’ experience performing and leading corporate investigations in the mining and industry sector, especially in large Capital Projects. Her experience covers a variety of conduct and ethics breaches related to financial crime, regulation and compliance, unfair labor practices, sexual harassment and fraud.
Dercio Carvalheda
Head of Brazil
Dercio graduated in law from the Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro in 2000. After that, he was approved to the Bar Association in Brazil and worked as an attorney to 2003, when joined Federal Police as a chief in police investigator. To the Federal Police, Dercio worked in several different areas: investigating financial crimes, corruption, environmental crimes, embezzlement of public funds, internal affairs, among others.

Region: North America & Canada

Lindsay Kowalski
Head of North America & Canada
Lindsay brings over 20 years of experience as a case analyst and investigator across civil and criminal law, higher education, and corporate environments. She currently serves as a Compliance Advisor at FedEx, where she supports the development, administration, and ongoing enhancement of the company’s global misconduct reporting and investigative program.

Region: Middle East (ME)

Brad McGrath
Head of ME
Brad is the Head of Business Integrity and Assurance at ADNOC, based in Abu Dhabi. With extensive international experience, he previously served as Global Head of Compliance, Conduct & Ethics for Shell Trading and Supply, working across the U.K., U.S and Singapore.
Charanjeet Bhatia
Head of UAE
Charanjeet Singh is a seasoned fraud risk and investigation professional with over 29 years of experience.
The regional heads have sub-regional heads and country heads who form the ACi regional management committees.


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