Symposium 2024 Speakers

Simon Scales, Chief Education & Training Officer, ACi

Simon’s extensive international experience in corporate investigations includes significant Employee Misconduct, Fraud, Bribery, Corruption, Antitrust & Competition, AML, Sanctions, Market Abuse and commensurate preventative/remedial measures. His 30 years of expertise in major investigation management, covert and overt intelligence gathering, relationship and stakeholder management, Ethics / Compliance / Integrity related investigations and reviews demonstrate his proven ability to facilitate consensus through negotiation and collaborate with senior management across all geographies. 

Annabel Kerley, Head of Fraud and Financial Crime, Evelyn Partners

Annabel has over 20 years’ experience as a forensic accountant and investigator.  She acts for both claimants and defendants in civil, criminal and regulatory matters involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption. During her career Annabel has helped clients across multiple sectors (including Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare and Technology & Media) navigate high-stakes investigations into complex multi-million cross-border fraud, bribery and corruption cases. These investigations have involved asset misappropriation, employee misconduct, financial misstatement, sanctions breaches, market abuse and misleading statements in civil, regulatory and criminal contexts and in multiple jurisdictions.

Steve Young, Chief Executive Officer

Steve served 20 years in UK law enforcement investigating economic crime specialising in the pro-active investigation of Banking Fraud, Bribery & Corruption, Whistleblowing and Money Laundering. This was followed by 6 years at Citigroup Inc. as EMEA Regional Director of Investigations, and 8 years as Barclays Bank Plc, Global Head of Investigations for Investment Banking & Wealth Management. Currently Head of Fraud & Investigations in Group Compliance at Lombard Odier, based in Geneva. To date, 40 years of international economic crime experience in both a law enforcement and corporate environment.

Andy Parratt, Deputy Head of Division, Serious Fraud Office

Brad McGrath, ACi ExCo Member 

Brad is the Global Head of Compliance Conduct & Ethics for Shell Trading and Supply,  now based in London having worked in the U.S and Singapore. Brad has a background in Conduct Risk, Regulatory Enforcement and Intelligence/Investigations from U.K. law enforcement and the financial regulator (FCA – CoLP) Brad specialises in Whistleblowing and Compliance Incident management. 

Ian R Henderson CFE CISA FCA

Ian specialises in providing support to organisations dealing with the challenges of suspected fraud, digital evidence, IT Security and the disclosure of electronic documents.  Ian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984 and then specialised in corporate investigations and computer audit. He subsequently qualified as an Information Systems Audit & Control Association (“ISACA”) Certified Information Systems Auditor. He is also an ACFE Certified Fraud Examiner. 

Basha Galvin, Chief Operating Officer, ACi

Basha started her career with the Metropolitan Police and moved to the City of London Police Fraud Unit, covering money laundering, trade finance fraud, bribery and corruption. Basha left the police and moved to Citigroup for four years, moving to Barclays plc in 2006 as Head of Investigations & Whistleblowing for Wealth & Investment Bank. In 2018 Basha moved to the Oil & Gas Industry as Head of Investigations for Tullow Oil Plc leaving in late 2020. In early 2021 Basha moved to Lloyds Banking Group managing Conduct Investigations and in November 2022 commenced a role as Senior Investigations Manager at British American Tobacco.

Paul Gordon, Manager, Sales Engineering, Relativity 

Paul has been in the legal technology field for over 20 years.  He has been with Relativity for over 10 years and currently leads Relativity’s Sales Engineering team across EMEA. With both sales and operations experience, Paul has supported diverse projects, covering computer forensics through document review and productions at both software and service provider organisations.  He is also one of Relativity’s regional leads for Generative AI products. Paul is based in London and serves the international Relativity user community. 

Patrick Wellens, Chief Compliance Officer, ACi

Patrick has over 20 years’ professional experience in leading complex and sensitive global fraud, corruption and financial crime investigations across diverse sectors from luxury brands to healthcare to NGOs and is experienced working with law firms, prosecutors and compliance monitors. He also has an impressive track record of establishing risk, compliance, and Internal Audit governance, processes, systems and standards. Patrick is currently working as a Compliance Manager for a healthcare and agriculture company where he is a business partner for all global functions of consumer health division and EMEA Crop Science management functions. Patrick is also a Board Member of Ethics and Compliance Switzerland and member of the editorial board of Society for Corporate Compliance & Ethics.

Joanna Ludlam, Partner, Baker McKenzie

Joanna is a Partner in the firm’s London Dispute Resolution team. Joanna advises clients on corporate investigations, administrative and public law, procurement law and litigation. She has particular expertise in the healthcare, technology and energy, mining and infrastructure sectors. She also advises clients at board-level, on regulatory compliance and crisis and reputation management.  Joanna recently represented the UN High Commissioner for Refugees pro bono in the Supreme Court, in its high profile and successful intervention in the challenge to the UK Government’s Rwanda refugee policy. Joanna focuses on bringing practical solutions to client issues, and designed the firm’s innovative Investigations Academy, a state-of-the-art training programme for investigations practitioners. Joanna co-authored the firm’s Connected Compliance thought leadership, which includes the world’s first global compliance integration benchmarking tool.

Jules Colborne Baber, Partner, Deloitte

Jules leads the Fraud and Investigations practice within Deloitte UK and has specialised in conducting investigations and forensic advisory work across the world for over 20 years.  Jules’ experience spans conducting investigations involving fraud, corruption, money laundering, sanctions matters and other misconduct. Jules has also acted as a skilled person for the FCA. Many of Jules’ investigations have been complex and multi-jurisdictional where Jules has led teams to deliver in challenging and highly pressurised situations working with retained counsel and senior client management. On numerous occasions Jules has presented to regulators and prosecutors from around the world including the US DoJ, SEC, the Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations, HKMA, FCA and SFO. In addition to investigations, Jules spends time providing advice services to organisation to help them build resilience to economic crime and misconduct and to proactively monitor against these risks.  Jules is a member of the of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and graduated from King’s College London with a BSc in Geography. 

Flavio Teixeira, CFE

Flavio is a Brazilian Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in the mining industry. He has served as both an external and internal auditor at PwC and has spent the last 12 years as an internal auditor at Anglo American, specializing in risk management and investigations. Over the past five years, Flavio has focused on establishing the Investigations structure and has recently expanded his responsibilities to include Ethics and Compliance.

Annabel Kerley, Head of Fraud and Financial Crime, Evelyn Partners

Annabel has over 20 years’ experience as a forensic accountant and investigator.  She acts for both claimants and defendants in civil, criminal and regulatory matters involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption. During her career Annabel has helped clients across multiple sectors (including Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare and Technology & Media) navigate high-stakes investigations into complex multi-million cross-border fraud, bribery and corruption cases. These investigations have involved asset misappropriation, employee misconduct, financial misstatement, sanctions breaches, market abuse and misleading statements in civil, regulatory and criminal contexts and in multiple jurisdictions. 

Sarah Wallace, Partner, Constantine Law

Sarah has 25+ years conducting and defending investigations, trial and enforcement proceedings, solving conduct, fitness, culture and career problems. I am a partner at entrepreneurial law firm Constantine Law. I defend professionals facing any form of investigation whether it is criminal, regulatory, or internal and my focus is on the financial services or professional regulated sectors. I often deal with the FCA, SFO, SRA and ICAEW. Clients can be suspect, whistle-blower, witness, victim, or a corporate investigator providing strategic, practical legal advice to protect careers, reputation and solve career and workplace crises. I aim to make complex and anxiety-inducing situations simpler and not career limiting or career ending.  

Fleur Eysenck, Legal Counsel, Barclays

Fleur Eysenck is Legal Counsel in Barclays’ Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement team working on a range of regulatory internal and external investigations, and commercial litigation matters. Prior to working at Barclays, Fleur spent 5 years at the criminal bar, followed by 10 years in the FCA’s enforcement division working principally on wholesale regulatory and criminal investigations and prosecutions, latterly as a Technical Specialist in the criminal prosecutions team

Simon Scales, Chief Education & Development Officer, ACi

Simon’s extensive international experience in corporate investigations includes significant Employee Misconduct, Fraud, Bribery, Corruption, Antitrust & Competition, AML, Sanctions, Market Abuse and commensurate preventative/remedial measures. His 30 years of expertise in major investigation management, covert and overt intelligence gathering, relationship and stakeholder management, Ethics / Compliance / Integrity related investigations and reviews demonstrate his proven ability to facilitate consensus through negotiation and collaborate with senior management across all geographies. 

Shabaz Ahmed, Senior Associate, DLA Piper

Shabaz is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Crime, Investigations and Financial Services Regulatory group, with experience of acting in financial services regulatory (advisory, transactional, and contentious), corporate crime, and investigations matters for both corporates and individuals.

Jeff Giddings, Head of EMEA, ACi

Jeff has over 26 years’ experience leading and performing internal and external corporate investigations in the corporate sector, various United Nation’s agencies, and other international organizations. Currently, he is the Senior Investigator and Head of Investigations for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) – the world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization.

Lorraine Medcraft, Vice President of Sales, Epiq

Lorraine has over 20 years’ experience in providing solutions to law firms to enable them to maximise efficiencies and respond to client demands, whilst at the same time, staying true to their core values, principles and commitment to their staff. She and her team have worked on a range of projects from information governance and records management, outsourced staffing solutions to trial technologies and transcription. Medcraft has been an integral part in the development and launch of new legal technologies, including TMX.  

Livia Gurgel, Head of LATAM, ACi

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. Livia has a degree in Marketing, post-graduation on International Financial Reporting Standards and Corporate Governance. She is now leading the South America Investigations function for a large Group in the mining, diamonds and minerals sector. Livia is Certified Fraud Examiner and holds an Executive MBA by Fundação Dom Cabral.

Benjamin Borsodi, Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer

Benjamin Borsodi is head of the White-Collar Crime and Internal Corporate Investigations group in Geneva. His areas of practice cover all of business crime, international legal assistance, corporate investigations, asset tracing and recovery, as well as compliance. Benjamin is also regularly handling commercial and banking litigation.

Cheryl O’Shea, Head of APAC, ACi

Cheryl O’Shea has over 20 years of experience in investigation and risk management and specializes 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. She leads a corporate investigation team in a multinational IT company covering Asia Pacific to conduct investigations in challenging situations and work with legal counsel in multi-jurisdictions. Cheryl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the UK and a Master’s degree in Finance from Ireland. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Zoë Newman, Regional MD & Head of Financial Investigations, Kroll

Zoë Newman is a regional managing director and global co-head of the Financial Investigations practice, based in London. Zoë leverages over 20 years of experience working across Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Middle East and has led numerous international cross-border investigations. These investigations required the tracing of complex fund flows, dissection of corporate structures and assessment of the integrity of transactions to support both civil and criminal asset recovery proceedings and disclosures to regulators. 

Ash Sharma, Head of Advisory Panel, ACi

Ash Sharma has over 20 years’ experience in investigations and financial crime risk mitigation. Ash presently manages one of two global investigation hubs for Anglo American Plc, a global mining, minerals and extraction company.  His team conduct corporate ethics and compliance (including regulatory and financial crime) investigations. Ash has worked in the UK and Asia in regional and group roles for a global bank. There, he headed up an internal fraud risk, background vetting and investigation function, before leading and coordinating global significant investigations for the group.  Ash is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Financial Crime Specialist, and Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator.

Ariana Issa, Risk Advisory

Ariana has approaching 20 years of experience managing complex due diligence and ESG-focussed investigations across the globe. She has particular expertise leveraging human intelligence and accessing hard-to-find information throughout Europe and the Middle East as well as helping clients mitigate ESG issues within their supply chains. She joined Risk Advisory in 2018 after time at another London-based intelligence consultancy and before that in executive search.