SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Over 40 speakers from the private and public sectors in OFFSHORE & ONSHORE domiciles will come together at the 5th OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference to discuss how to identify, manage and avoid unnecessary risk in banking, international finance, and general business.
A graduate of Queen's and the University of Western Ontario, David Baines has spent much of his life in the world of journalism, first with the Winnipeg Tribune, and subsequently with The Province and Vancouver Sun.
His astute understanding of the business world has led to numerous awards for his reporting, including the National Newspaper Award, the B.C. Newspaper Award, the Jack Webster Award and National Magazine Award.
Mr. Baines' numerous investigative pieces about the Vancouver Stock Exchange have drawn national attention and acclaim.
He has been sued 18 times for libel during his career and never lost, never having to go to court and never having an apology or a correction published about any of the articles being complained about. In 1992, the Vancouver Police Department informed him that, according to their sources, a contract for his murder had been issued by an unknown underworld party.
Bart, Delano - Attorney General for St. Kitts & Nevis
No biography available at this time.
Birdwell, Z. Scott - Senior Counsel, SEC's Office of International Affairs
No biography available at this time.
Baker, Michael G. - CEO, Prescience LLC
During a career spanning over fifteen years as a covert field operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike specialized in counterterrorism, counternarcotics and counterinsurgency operations. He engaged in, organized and supervised operations around the globe, working in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. He was recognized professionally for outstanding performance and for operational achievements in hostile environments.
In late 1998 Mike left government service to join a large European start up company specializing in intelligence collection and risk mitigation. Over the next two years, while serving on the company’s board and as the Director for Operations, Mike helped to build the company into one of Europe’s leading risk and security companies. In December 2000, Mike co-founded Diligence LLC, an intelligence, risk management and security firm that grew over the next four years into a global operation with annual revenues exceeding $15 million. As a principal partner and CEO, he led the company as it expanded to several offices in Europe and the United States.
In early 2005 Mike, along with business partners including current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and leading Republican strategist Ed Rogers, decided to sell their holdings and exit the company. In January 2007, Mike launched a new intelligence and advisory firm, Prescience LLC, and, with partners from the investment world, a private equity fund, Prescience Capital, focusing on homeland defense, security and intelligence companies.
Mike is a regular contributor in the national and international media as an intelligence, security and counterterrorist analyst.
Jack Blum has significant experience and focuses his practice in the areas of bank and securities firm compliance, congressional investigations, international financial crime, money laundering and offshore tax evasion.
Mr. Blum served for many years as a United States Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including the investigation of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, General Noriega’s drug trafficking and Lockheed’s overseas bribes. Positions he has held with the Senate include: Assistant Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly (1965-1972); Associate
Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1972-1976); and Special Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1987-1989).
Mr. Blum often testifies about money laundering and tax evasion before congressional committees, serves as a qualified expert to domestic governmental agencies and provides anti-money laundering training to domestic and foreign governmental agencies.
He is the co-author of "Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy & Money Laundering," .In addition, his articles have been published in a number of books, including Transnational Crime in the Americas ("Offshore Money"), and he is a former Senior Editor of Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal.
Mr. Blum also speaks at events held throughout the United States and the world.
Broadhurst, Peter - Broadhurst Barristers
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation before all Courts and Administrative Tribunals. E-Commerce, Corporate Local and International Transactions; Estates and Trusts; Time Share, Residential and Commercial Real Estate and Development; Securities, Financings and Mutual Funds; insolvency and asset recovery; asset and privacy preservation.
While practicing in Canada Mr. Broadhurst maintained a BV rating by Martindale-Hubbell indicating an exemplary reputation and well established practice habits. During his practice years in Canada he represented several Canadian Banks in security and asset recovery, receivership and insolvency matters and acted as counsel to several of the major accounting firms with respect to receivership appointments.
Admitted to Bar: 1971, Ontario; 1988 and 1994, Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
Education: Queen's University (B.A., 1965), University of Toronto (LL.B., 1969)
Associations and Memberships:
Founding Partner of Broadhurst Barristers, The Law Society of the Cayman Islands (Council Member), The Law Society of Upper Canada, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America,The Cayman Islands Company Managers Association (Director), Notary Public, Ontario and The Cayman Islands, Canadian Bar Association (former member), Peel County Law Association (Director, 1981-1984, former member), The Lawyers Club (former member).
Byron, Christopher - Ex-New York Post columnist and best-selling book author
Christopher Byron, ThirdAge's Online Investing Insider, has been writing about business and finance for more than 30 years. He is a contributing editor and featured financial columnist for the New York Observer, and MSNBC. Byron has also written extensively for Esquire, Worth, Men's Health, and Travel Holiday magazines.
He has covered Wall Street as a weekly columnist for both the New York Daily News and New York magazine. Byron worked as both an editor and a correspondent for Time, and as an assistant Managing Editor of Forbes magazine. He has appeared frequently as a featured guest on the "The Larry King Show" and NBC's Today Show, among other television talk shows.
Byron graduated from Columbia University School of Law where he studied international law and finance. He is the author of Skin Tight, (Simon & Shuster, 1992), a nonfiction account of the fashion industry. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, prefers power-boating to sailing, and lives in Connecticut with his family.
Anthony Carey is a business development manager with Complinet Ltd. – a global provider of business critical information and software services to the financial services industry – managing the US and UK business solutions sales teams. Predominately focusing on clients within the financial services sector, his primary role involves developing and selling compliance solutions in line with regulatory guidelines and law.
Mr. Carey has over 11-years of experience in international financial services, having delivered global solutions for organizations such as AXA, Barclays and Bank of Scotland. Prior to Complinet, Mr. Carey developed a new consultancy division focused on process innovation and bespoke systems development, for Dealogic, focusing on workflow and knowledge management solutions. Following that position, he was employed as UK Business Development Manager of the largest web agency firm at the time, where his primary role was to create, manage and deliver new business through the leverage of European and US operations and through direct consultative selling to major financial institutions.
At Complinet, Mr. Carey has worked successfully with internal sales, marketing and technical teams to develop, launch and sell new product solutions that meet the customer screening needs of regulated financial services institutions. He has worked in the UK, US and Europe, currently defining the UK, US and offshore financial centres as the key market focus for the delivery of customer screening solutions and partnerships. He is currently working with a select group of top brand data providers (Experian, Factiva, Synergy, Onesource) in order to launch compliance lead solutions tailored for specific markets.
Carey, Christopher - Editor of Mark Cuban-owned ShareSleuth.com
Christopher Carey is a veteran investigative reporter who recently premiered his web site ShareSleuth.com. While a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, Carey developed the idea for an online site that would provide the sort of in-depth investigative business journalism newspapers rarely produce anymore, focusing on what Carey sees as the grossly under-reported and under-prosecuted arena of stock fraud and white collar crime.
In the spring of 2006, Carey approached billionaire Mark Cuban via email to
propose he help fund the venture. Cuban agreed. Among Cuban's ideas for making Sharesleuth.com profitable is the controversial practice of shorting the stocks of the companies Sharesleuth.com is investigating prior to publication of their reports.
Born February 17, 1961, Carey is a native of Ames, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree, a double-major in journalism and economics, from the Indiana University in 1983. He launched his journalism career at the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Kentucky. Subsequently, he reported for the Orlando Sentinel, the Indianapolis Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked for 17 years.
Carey was a finalist for the 2005 Gerald Loeb Business awards for his 2004 "High Tech Shell Game" investigative reporting series for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005, he was selected as one of the Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In 2006, he relocated permanently to Ann Arbor from St. Louis.
Davis Jr., Edward - Astigarraga Davis
Edward H. Davis, Jr., a founding shareholder, focuses his practice on the representation of corporate victims of fraud throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. In the course of his practice, Davis conducts financial fraud investigations, prosecutes civil claims for fraud, and pursues misappropriated assets. As might be expected, Davis' practice has a strong international component. The nature of money flow today is such that stolen funds can be instantaneously transferred. Davis has pursued such funds in jurisdictions across the globe ranging from Japan, to the Bahamas, to Latin America to Liechtenstein.
The unraveling of complex fraud scheme requires both knowledge and experience. Davis is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Member of the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. He is asked often to lecture on the subject of financial fraud. He has spoken to groups ranging from the global fraud investigation groups of one of the world's largest banks, to associations of certified public accountants, to investigative agencies.
Because of his knowledge in unraveling frauds, Davis also counsels clients in fraud prevention and emergency fraud response. He has advised bank audit committees and other corporate groups in such subjects.
His experience in pursuing misappropriated funds includes cases of public corruption. Davis has led teams of lawyers acting on behalf of a government seeking to undo fraudulent transactions in public projects.
Davis' knowledge in financial transaction originates from years of representing banks and other financial institutions in creditors' rights and other litigation, including disputes over wire transfers, letter of credit, forged checks and other issues. In the course of representing lenders he has prosecuted claims against borrowers and third parties for fraudulent transfers, commercial loan enforcement, enforcement of judgments, including foreign judgments, and foreclosure of mortgages and other security. He continues to practice actively in this area as a complement to the firm's financial fraud practice.
Admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, he has served as Chairman of the International Litigation and Arbitration Committee and on the Executive Council of the International Section of the Florida Bar. He is a member of the Inter-American Law Committee of the International Section of Law and Practice of the American Bar Association; Business Crime Committee of the International Bar Association; the Bankruptcy Bar of the Southern District of Florida; the International Bank Operations Association; and the Florida International Bankers Association. Under his leadership, the firm is also a member of the ICC Commercial Crimes Services Fraudnet Network and the Florida Bankers' Association.
A former officer of Britain 's Security Service (MI5) and a member of the U.K. Special Boat Service (SBS), Day is a founding partner of Diligence. Following his government service, Day worked as a senior investigator for the Maxima Group, a leading European fraud investigations firm.
Deveaux, Hillary - Securities Commission of the Bahamas
Mr. Hillary Deveaux is the Executive Director of the Securities Commission of the Bahamas. He was appointed Acting Executive Director of the Commission on December 1, 2002, and confirmed as Executive Director on May 16, 2006 by the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
He received his education at the Government High School, Iowa State University; the London School of Economics and Political Science; and Cambridge University.
Mr. Deveaux was appointed Secretary to the Securities Board (the predecessor to the Securities Commission) on June 1, 1997. Prior to
joining the Securities Commission, he served as General Manager of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation. Other appointments include Project Officer, Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados; Manager of the Eurodollar Division, Bank of New Providence in Nassau; Money Market Manager, Chemical International Finance Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Chemical Bank,) in New York; and Assistant Director, Research Department, Central Bank of the Bahamas.
Mr. Deveaux has been an Evening Lecturer in Statistics and Economics at the College of the Bahamas, a Lecturer in Economics and Banking & Finance at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in Cardiff, Wales, and a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer in Economics at Iowa State University.
He is a member of The Bahamas Trade Commission and is the current Chairman of the FTAA Negotiating Group in Services, a position he has held since June 2002.
Emswhiller, John - The Wall Street Journal
John R. Emshwiller, a senior national correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has spent most of the past decade covering white-collar crime and related issues. He is the author of ‘’Scam Dogs and Mo-Mom Mamas’’ and ‘’ 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America’’.
Together, Rebecca Smith and Emshwiller shared the 2002 Gerald Loed Award for their coverage of Enron.
Evans, Robb - Robb Evans & Associates LLC
Mr. Evans has a 40-year career as a banker and fiduciary. He has been chief executive officer of six banks.
He formerly was Trustee managing United States interests in the BCCI matter and is currently Trustee on behalf of the BCCI foreign liquidators, Federal Receiver or Trustee appointed by the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia, Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Northern District of Oklahoma, Southern District of New York, District of Nevada, District of Arizona, Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, and a State Court Receiver in a variety of matters.
He has served as a California Special Deputy Commissioner of Financial Institutions and is Past President of the California Bankers Association.
Files, Burke - Financial Examinations & Evaluations Inc.
Mr. Files is a widely recognized expert in the area of financial investigations and due diligence.
He has authored numerous articles as well as books on the subject. Additionally, he has presented over 20 seminars on financial investigation subjects.
Financial Examinations & Evaluations, Inc., founded by Mr. Files in 1991 has grown to be one of the largest independent financial investigation firms. Mr. Files and his firm conduct investigations in the United States, Eastern Europe, Central and South America and China.
Before founding FE&E, Inc. Mr. Files was a partner in a regional consulting firm specializing in business, financial and securities consulting. He also served as the Director of Corporate Finance for an investment banking company. Additionally, Mr. Files was a commodities specialist for Oppenheimer/Rouse.
Mr. Files has written extensively and been quoted in many publications. Many times he is the quoted source for articles regarding financial investigation and due diligence. Among the publications in which he has been quoted are Chief Executive Officer, The American Southwest Quarterly, Offshore Journal, Marketerian and Market Advisors, Aegis e-Journal, John Cooke Fraud Report, Police and Security News, The Bodyguard - United Kingdom, Police Magazine, The ASLET Trainer, El Cosario, European Business, and NPR Market Watch.
In addition to numerous published articles, Mr. Files is the author of ‘’Due Diligence for the Financial Professional’’, ‘’Counterfeit Identification’’, ‘’Background Investigation’’ and ‘’Hire in haste, Repent in Receivership’.
Gallagher, Rodney - Gaffney, Gallagher & Philip LLC Consultant to Governments in Offshore Financial Centers
Rodney Gallagher joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1974. Prior to that he had experience with both a consulting engineering firm and a leading firm of economic consultants, working in East Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. In 1984 Mr Gallagher was made a partner with the London firm of Coopers & Lybrand with particular responsibility for work in the Caribbean, having been involved with financial, industrial and economic development projects in the Caribbean for ODA, the EEC, USAID and other international agencies, residing in the region from 1979 to 1986.
With a background in economics and financial analysis, Mr Gallagher has carried out a number of financial sector assignments including projects for the UK Government. In 1989/90 this work culminated in a personal appointment to undertake a review of the financial services sector in Anguilla, Cayman, BVI, TCI and Montserrat for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The report was published by HMSO and laid before Parliament in January 1990. In October of that year Mr Gallagher was appointed as the Financial Services Adviser to the Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, based at the British High Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados. Mr Gallagher resigned from the London partnership of Coopers & Lybrand, now Price Waterhouse Coopers, in 1995.
Over the last twelve years a number of major assignments have been completed, including the clean-up of the offshore sector in Montserrat and Anguilla, the reform of the offshore insurance sector in BVI, and the development of anti-money laundering and anti-fraud initiatives in a number of Caribbean states, including Antigua, Grenada, St Lucia and Belize. Between 1992-4 Mr Gallagher played a key role in the formation of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), whose Secretariat is now based in Trinidad, and was responsible for the initial feasibility study and drafting the Kingston Declaration. Mr Gallagher has been closely involved with a number of important, international law enforcement operations in the region, addressing the threat from both Colombian and Russian organized crime and helped establish the joint US-UK White Collar Crime Investigation Team (WCCIT), serving as a member of the WCCIT Oversight Committee from its inception. During 2001 Mr Gallagher was the sole Commissioner on a Commission of Inquiry into public corruption related to the provision of telecommunications at the new airport terminal in the BVI.
In June 1998 Mr Gallagher was awarded an OBE for services to HMG in the Caribbean and retired from service with the UK Government in December 2001. In March 2002 Mr Gallagher was appointed as the External Commissioner on the board of the newly formed Financial Services Commission, British Virgin Islands.
No biography available at this time.
Shaun Hassett, National Account Manager, Financial Services Shaun Hassett is a national account manager of financial services at Accuity. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Hassett has regularly consulted with Regulatory Compliance/Risk Management professionals and Legal Counsel at leading financial institutions, securities firms, insurance companies, corporations and vendors to the financial community to help develop and implement systems designed to: reduce operational and regulatory risks; employ higher know your customer standards; and, comply with regulations such as the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the USA PATRIOT Act and EU Directives as well as those set forth by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Similarly, Mr. Hassett also works with cash management, treasury and back-room payment operations professionals at global, regional and community financial institutions, other financial and corporate payment originators and with vendors to those markets to integrate Accuity’s Payment Solutions to improve overall payment processing efficacy.
Mr. Hassett is a member of ACAMS, is married and resides in suburban Chicago.
Hewson, Brendan - Global Risk Advisory Services
Brendan Hewson is the Principal of Global Risk Advisory Services (GRA Services).
Mr. Hewson is a well-known and much requested speaker on international financial crime, at business and fraud conferences around the world. Prior speaking engagements have included presentations to the Institute of Chartered Accountants , The Law Society, North Carolina World Trade Association Conference, Asia-Pacific Financial Crime Conference and Exhibition, Institute of International Banking Law and Practice, government agencies in the United States , Southern Africa , and Thailand. He has also given lectures to banking organizations in Singapore, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, the United States, Grand Cayman, Trinidad & Tobago and The British Virgin Islands (BVI).
He is currently a member of The Group of Experts on Commercial Fraud for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL).He is the author of "Seizure of Confidential Material". He is the founder of the International Financial Fraud Convention, an annual event dedicated to bringing together representatives from the financial services industry of established and emerging economies for the purpose of developing ways to prevent international financial fraud.
Prior to establishing Global Risk Advisory Services, Mr. Hewson was, for more than ten years, the Executive responsible for International Corporate Security for one of the largest global financial institutions. He managed staff located in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. His responsibilities included the prevention and detection of international financial crime for operations in more than 40 countries and over 2oo countries with banking relationships. He was also responsible for managing the bank's international physical security operations together with international travel security.
Prior to this, he was an officer with the Company Fraud Department, New Scotland Yard, London. He served as a police officer for nearly 30 years. He was involved in the investigation of many high-profile cases and his success has been recognized both by the judiciary and other agencies.
Since the spring of 2000, when Kevin Jones founded eDiligence, a full service research firm, he has personally conducted and managed hundreds of due diligence inquiries, hedge fund inquiries, litigation support matters and Internet investigations involving trade thefts, mergers and acquisitions, IPO’s, intellectual property disputes and discreet, media sensitive matters.
Mr. Jones was formerly with DSFX, LLC (now Decision Strategies International), the company that resulted from the merger of Decision Strategies and The Fairfax Group. At DSFX, he directed general investigations including Internet related research as well as volume based due diligence programs for major investments institutions. Starting at the Associate level in the research department, he quickly rose through the organization to be named Director.
Mr. Jones is a recognized expert in database research techniques and public records retrieval and how they can be used in due diligence, litigation support and competitive intelligence investigations. He often is “out in the field” personally handling discreet matters for large corporations and law firms to maintain the confidentiality of the clients inquiries. He is a licensed private detective in Maryland and is active in the private investigations and security industry.
Prior to joining the DSFX / Fairfax Group, Mr. Jones was the primary field investigator for a major political party where he personally conducted investigations of US Senate and Presidential level candidates. His field research took him into over 20 states in just a few months as he discreetly looked for information necessary to win at the highest levels of politics. His ground breaking investigation into 1996 campaign finance abuses began months before the story broke publicly.
Jones, Hywel - Britannia Consulting Group
Born in North Wales, the founder of Britannia was brought up and educated in the UK and the Channel Islands.
He has over 25 years experience in financial services with National Westminster Bank PLC, Jamaica Institute of Bankers, Bahamas Institute of Bankers and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, for who he continues to work as a consultant.
An ACIB and FSD holder of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London, he is well known internationally as a writer and speaker on banking, finance, and taxation.
He is a former director of both The Bankers Association of The Bahamas and The Bahamas Institute of Bankers.
Kattan, William - Bermuda Monetary Authority
No biography available at this time.
Kellogg, Lawrence - Tew Cardenas LLP
Lawrence A. Kellogg,
a partner in the Tew Cardenas Miami office, focuses
his practice on complex litigation matters in State, Federal, and Bankruptcy
Courts, as well as arbitration forums.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Editor of
The Florida State University Law Review and Instructor of legal writing
and research at
SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATIONS
- The Walt Disney Company and affiliates - Represented the Walt Disney Company in various commercial and trademark matters. ABC, Inc. - Lead counsel for ABC in a multi-million dollar dispute in Federal Court regarding an international partnership for the provision of cable television programming in
-
- Huntington Bancshares, Inc. - Lead trial counsel for Huntington Bancshares and Huntington Federal Savings and Loan Association in defending a $30 million lender liability action tried before a jury. Among other claims, the Defendant contended that it was a de facto partner of Huntington FSL and that Huntington Bancshares had tortuously interfered with the partnership and other contracts of its subsidiary.
- NationsBank - Co-trial counsel for NationsBank in a complex commercial mortgage foreclosure action and a substantial lender liability counterclaim, involving more than $10 million. The counterclaim was for an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by the bank to the borrower.
- Barnett Brokerage Services - Represented, along with another partner of the Firm, Barnett Brokerage Services in connection with a complex letter of credit issue.
- Procter & Gamble - Represented Procter & Gamble in matters pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. The Federal court matter involved violation of a non-compete agreement and a corporate raiding claim by Procter & Gamble against Clorox.
- Altadis U.S.A., Altadis, S.A., and Consolidated Cigar Holdings, Inc. - Represented
- Hugh
F. Culverhouse Trust Litigation - Lead trial counsel for Mrs.
Hugh Culverhouse in litigation involving the Hugh F. Culverhouse Trust,
the former owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Litigated several cases in
Circuit Court in
- Robert
F. Irsay Trust Litigation - Represented
Nancy Irsay, the wife of Indianapolis Colts
owner, Robert Irsay, in litigation with the
Trustees of the Robert F. Irsay Trust and the
Robert F. Irsay probate estate. Mrs. Irsay successfully settled the dispute, which involved
litigation in
- Cash 4 Titles Class Action - Represented class plaintiffs in a RICO class action filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The case was settled for over $67.5 million, which approached 50% of the class' losses.
- Arbitrations - Presently is serving as a neutral American Arbitration Association
arbitrator in a $30 million dispute between several
- Amerifirst Securities
Litigation - Defended the three most senior officers and
directors of a major failed Florida Savings and Loan Association who were
sued in numerous Federal Class Actions and by the
- ESM Government Securities Litigation - Represented, along with other members of the Firm, Thomas Tew, as receiver for a failed brokerage house, in prosecuting a fraudulent transfer action involving reverse repurchase transactions arising out of a $300 million securities fraud. After a several week jury trial, the jury returned a verdict in the client's favor in excess of $25 million. Successful prosecution of the case required extensive analysis of complex economic issues and subsequent lay translation for the jury.
- United
Broadcasting Corp. - Lead trial counsel in an action brought by a
Spanish language television station against a cable operator arising from
a dispute over the renewal of a contract to carry the television station
on cable systems in
- FPA Securities Litigation - Represented, along with other members of the Firm, a former director of a public company in defense of various class and mass actions alleging violations of the securities laws.
- Muscletech Research and
Development Class Action Litigation - Co-lead counsel in
defending a class action against a dietary supplement manufacturer
alleging violations of
- Smuckers Class Action
Litigation - Represented Smuckers, Inc.
in three class actions in
- Preferred Employers Holdings, Inc. - Successfully defended Preferred Employers Holdings, Inc. and others in a multi-million dollar action brought by its former president and general counsel.
- Leadenhall Bank and Trust Co. Class Action Litigation - Co-lead counsel in a plaintiffs' class action, alleging violations of RICO against a Bahamian bank.
- Represented a plaintiff in a multi-million dollar action for legal malpractice.
- Presently
counsel in class action involving taxi cab operations in
Kenney, Martin - Martin Kenney & Co.
Prior to founding Martin Kenney & Co.,
Solicitors, Mr. Kenney was a partner
at Bermans, the English firm of Solicitors.
Subsequently, Mr. Kenney cofounded the
The Canadian Lawyer Magazine (
In June 1999, Mr. Kenney was appointed to the
Working Group on Government Corruption of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies
at the
Macdonald, Alasdair - NominoDATA
Al has 24 years of experience in the computer industry working both domestically and internationally. His extensive experience covers the major areas of computing technology including networking, web application design, database, imaging and client/server environments. Al has focused his career on developing a technical, customer-centric view spending time in applications development, customer support, technical sales and IT management. This places him in a unique position to design and build applications that minimize support costs and have end-user appeal, as well as being commercially viable.
In 2005 Al founded a company Nominodata (http://nominodata.com) to provide data, systems and consulting to the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Patriot Act compliance markets. The company has grown to be a leading edge resource for AML systems expertise featuring advanced name dictionaries for matching as well as end-toend solutions for banks and brokerages. Recently launching CheckForRisk.com an online search engine focused specifically on AML information. Checkforrisk (http://checkforrisk.com) has gained acceptance in the AML markets as a leading search engine.
As the Chief Technology Officer for Regulatory Data Corporation (http://regulatorydatacorp.com). Al Architected, project managed and implemented the replacement system for the earlier RDC system that used the CDC/Equifax platform. This process included setting up a datacenter to run the new system as well as recruit the staff (30) needed to operate the new platform. During this time RDC filed 5 Patents based on Al’s design and methods. The RDC system is used by the largest financial institutions in the world to screen accounts against the RDC’s terrorist, money laundering and fraud database to comply with the homeland security act screening requirements.
Before RDC Al spent the previous 6 years at Compliance Data Center (acquired by Equifax) directing their application development and computer centers in the brokerage market. CDC/Equifax are the leading consumer and business financial health information suppliers. While at CDC Al designed and implemented a highly secure, online, massive library of media information on individuals and companies, dating back to 1962 that is used extensively by the financial industry. Prior to CDC, Al worked as a technical sales manager for 2 years at Computer Base Tahoe. Before that in the City of London, UK solution selling to F100 size institutions for Morse, Logix and Astley. He started his career at Computacentre (the EDS of the UK) running a computer support group.
Marchant, David - OffshoreAlert
David Marchant, owner of KYC News Inc., is an investigative journalist who has exposed numerous international, white-collar crimes during his career, leading to four libel lawsuits against him – all of which were unsuccessful. Mr. Marchant is regularly referenced for financial crime stories by the world’s media, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Miami Herald, CBS News, Bloomberg Business News, The Times of London , the Independent on Sunday, and BBC Radio.
Marchant began covering offshore finance while working in Bermuda from 1990-96, a country that he was forced to leave after being denied a work permit for writing investigative articles that upset the local establishment. Apart from turning down an application for a work permit and appeals, then Finance Minister Grant Gibbons turned down an application to incorporate the Company in Bermuda as an exempted company after the Bermuda Monetary Authority had recommended approval.
In his career, he has written for publications in England, Wales, Bermuda and the United States, including the Gwent Gazette, Bournemouth Evening Echo, Western Daily Press and Lloyd's List/Insurance Day newspapers in Britain, The Royal Gazette and Bermuda Sun newspapers in Bermuda and National Underwriter insurance magazine in the United States.
He has been sued 8 times for libel during his career and never lost, never having to go to court and never having an apology or a correction published about any of the articles being complained about.
Mathavious, Robert - British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission
Robert Mathavious was appointed the first
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services
Commission in 2002.
Prior to the establishment of the
Commission, Mr. Mathavious enjoyed an
illustrious 25 year tenure in public service with the Government of the
As the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Services Commission Mr. Mathavious is responsible for the administration and operation of the Financial Services Commission. His responsibilities include: the regulation of the BVI’s financial industry; the development of new service and product offerings aimed at developing, and enhancing the attractiveness of the BVI as a situs for legitimate cross border financial services; and liaising with Government and private sector stakeholders in pursuance of this objective.
Nichols, Tracy - Holland + Knight
Tracy A. Nichols practices in litigation with emphasis in securities shareholder litigation; complex commercial litigation and class actions. She is the firm’s National Practice Group Leader for the Securities Litigation Group.
Ms. Nichols is a member of The Florida Bar, the Securities Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, and the Dade County Bar Association. She is a lifetime fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Ms. Nichols has been elected by her peers to The Best Lawyers in America for the past four years, is listed in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA (America's Leading Lawyers for Business), Florida Legal Elite (Top 2% of Florida Lawyers) and was recently selected by Law & Politics as a Florida Super Lawyer and one of The Top 50 Female Florida Super Lawyers.
In her community, Ms. Nichols is a member of the Board of Visitors for the University of Miami, College of Law and the Board of Trustees of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society. Ms. Nichols is a founding member of Volunteer Lawyers’ Project for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and a member of Local Rules Committee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She was a recent speaker at the Securities Industry Association (2005), Federal Securities Institute (2005), Palm Beach County Bar Association and Directors’ Institute.
Ms. Nichols earned her B.A., with high honors, in 1979 from the University of Florida and her J.D., with honors, in 1984 from the University of Florida, where she was Editor in Chief of the University of Florida Law Review (1983-84) and a member of the Order of the Coif, and Florida Blue Key. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Howell W. Melton, United States District Court, Middle District of Florida, from 1984-86.
Mr. Page is the Kroll Associates Managing Director in the company's Miami and Los Angeles offices. He handles managed risk mitigation services for all locations in California, Florida, Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
In the past, he has worked for the U.S. Customs Service as a Senior Special Agent in Washington D.C. and San Diego.
Mr. Page managed the Dale Earnhardt death investigation for NASCAR.
He developed a global crisis response program for several multi-national corporations, and managed a multitude of high profile litigation support cases including the 2000 Presidential Election Florida Recount matter.
He also works in collaboration with other government bodies such as the Treasury Department, Justice Department and the Congress.
Marco Piovesan is Vice-President of Global Services at ChoicePoint Inc. Marco has over 18 years of experience in globally relevant capacities including military intelligence, economics, business, strategy, technology and regulations. Marco has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Over the last few years he has focused on leading-edge technology initiatives as they relate to identity verification, authentication, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance and data aggregation and search. He is currently focused on the changing global dynamics and intersections of talent acquisition, employment screening, trans-national privacy and regulatory issues and risk mitigation.
Ridley, Timothy - Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Timothy Ridley is a
former senior partner of the largest law firm in the
Mr. Ridley is a
graduate of Cambridge University (BA) and Harvard Law School (LLM) and
qualified as a solicitor in
Mr. Ridley has served
on various consultative committees advising the
In July 2002, he was appointed to the Boards of the Health Services Authority (retired January 2005) and the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (Chairman, July 2004). He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1996 for services to the financial industry and the local community.
Roach, Bob - U. S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
No biography available at this time.
Saur, Nancy - Bodden Corporate Services
A practitioner
for over 23 years in the international financial community, Nancy J. Saur has made the
Schiff, David - Schiff's Insurance Observer
David Schiff is the founder, editor, and writer of Schiff's Insurance Observer, which has been published since 1989.
Mr. Schiff began his career in the insurance business in 1977. In 1982 he went to work in the investment and investment-banking businesses. In 1987 he took over troubled Emerson, Reid & Company, Inc., and turned it into the leading wholesale insurance brokerage specializing in New York State Disability Benefits. He sold Emerson, Reid at the end of 1996.
From 1987 to 1993 Mr. Schiff wrote about business, finance, and insurance for numerous publications. (He was a frequent contributor to Barron's, a contributing editor for Worth, and a columnist for numerous others). He is a frequent speaker at insurance industry forums, conferences, and gatherings, and has been an active participant in public-interest matters involving corporate governance and mutual insurance companies.
He has served on the board of directors of Kaz, Nitinol Medical Technologies, The Princeton Review, Schiff Terhune International, 300 Central Park West Apartments Corp., Tungsten Alloy Manufacturing Company, and the Center for Insurance Research.
David Schiff has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Star Ledger, The Des Moines Register, The Sarasota Herald Tribune, and many other media sources.
Schneider, Jerome - Former offshore bank promoter and author of books such as ‘Hiding Your Money’ and ‘How to Own Your Own Private International Bank’
No biography available at this time.
Scott, Michael - Callenders & Co
Sybersma, Stuart - Deloitte & Touche
Stuart Sybersma is a Partner with Deloitte in the Cayman Islands , having responsibility for the operations
of the firm’s Financial Advisory Services ("FAS") department. This
department encompasses the two main service lines of Insolvency and
Reorganization and Fraud & Forensic Investigation. Stuart specialises in financial institution and mutual fund
insolvency, fraud and financial investigation, litigation support, and
anti-money laundering. Stuart has extensive experience with cross border asset
tracing and recovery matters and is a member of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu international
Global Financial Services Industry anti-money laundering team.
Weill, Jay - Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
No biography available at this time.
Weiss, Melvin - Milberg Weiss & Bershad LLP
MELVYN
Mr. Weiss's expertise has been recognized on numerous occasions by courts appointing him to leadership positions in prosecuting complex litigations. Among the more prominent of the outstanding recoveries in cases where he has represented defrauded investors or consumers are the Drexel/Milken litigations (recoveries of over $1 billion for investors in, among others, Columbia Savings & Loan and Executive Life Insurance Company of America); In re Washington Public Power Supply System Securities Litigation ($775 million recovered after the country's largest municipal bond default); Butcher Bank Litigation (leading to $400 million recovery on behalf of the FDIC against Ernst & Young); Oxford Healthcare Securities Litigation ($300 million); Prudential Limited Partnership Litigation ($200 million); Mercedes Brake Defect Litigation ($100 million in settlement benefits); life insurance policy holder cases against Prudential Life Insurance ($4 billion), John Hancock ($400 million), New York Life ($300 million), ManuLife ($500 million) and Metropolitan Life ($1.7 billion). He was a pro bono lead counsel in the Swiss Bank Litigation involving Holocaust confiscations, which settled for $1.25 billion, and was a lead counsel in recovering $5 billion for Holocaust victims from German banks and companies. He is presently Chair of the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee prosecuting over 300 cases involving misconduct in connection with initial public offerings, in which a partial settlement with some defendants of $1 billion has been announced.
Mr. Weiss received a B.B.A. in accounting from
Mr. Weiss has lectured extensively to lawyers, law students, and other professionals throughout the country and abroad. He has been a guest lecturer at the New York University School of Law, Stanford University Law School, Harvard Law School, Duke Law School, University of Buenos Aires (where he is an honorary professor), and at the Salzburg Seminar Foundation in Austria. He has addressed the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of Accountants, National Association of Internal Auditors, and in 1993 delivered the Abraham Briloff Distinguished Lecture at the State University of New York at
Mr. Weiss is a member of the American Bar Association (from 1986-1988, he served as a Co-Chair of the Class and Derivative Committee of the Litigation Section; from 1983-1986, he served as a member of the FRCP Rule 23 Class Action Improvement Committee; and from 1976-1982, he served as a member of the Corporate Law Committee of the Banking and Business Law Section), the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York Inns of Court. In 2000, Mr. Weiss was selected by Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit to serve as a member of the Third Circuit Task Force on Selection of Class Counsel. In 2005, Mr. Weiss was elected as a Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation.
Mr. Weiss was a Commissioner of the Nassau County Charter Revision Commission, which proposed the new legislative form of government for the county's 1.3 million residents. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on tort "reform" proposals. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Policy Forum, an organization devoted to encouraging peace in the
Mr. Weiss and his wife established the Melvyn and Barbara Weiss Public Interest Foundation at New York University School of Law to assist graduating public-interest lawyers in retiring their student loans. He has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Gotham Award and Humanitarian Award; the United Jewish Appeal’s Proskauer Award, given annually to an exemplary Jewish lawyer and humanitarian; the B'nai B'rith of Argentina Dignity & Justice Award for humanitarian activities; and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, Inc. Mr. Weiss is the International Chair of the Hatikva Project, which built a memorial on the site of the Israeli Embassy in
Williams, Dwayne - Partner, Holland + Knight
Dwayne E. Williams practices in the litigation department of the firm, concentrating in general commercial litigation, including class action defense. He also advises clients on general business law issues. Mr. Williams is co-chair of Holland & Knight's Caribbean Initiative, President of the Barbados-U.S.A. Chamber of Commerce, and represents a Caribbean-based hotel chain.
Share on Facebook
Bookmark this on Delicious
Seed NewsvineSPEAKER FALCULTY
Vancouver Sun
Attorney General for St. Kitts & Nevis
Senior Counsel, SEC's Office of International Affairs
Prescience LLC
Baker Hostetler
Broadhurst Barristers
Ex-New York Post columnist and best-selling book author
Complinet
Editor of Mark Cuban-owned ShareSleuth.com
Astigarraga Davis
Diligence LLC
Securities Commission of the Bahamas
The Wall Street Journal
Robb Evans & Associates LLC
Financial Examinations & Evaluations Inc.
Gaffney, Gallagher & Philip LLC Consultant to Governments in Offshore Financial Centers
Kroll
Accuity
Global Risk Advisory Services
HedgeCheck
Britannia Consulting Group
Bermuda Monetary Authority
Tew Cardenas LLP
Martin Kenney & Co.
NominoDATA
OffshoreAlert
British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission
Holland + Knight
Verasys LLC
ChoicePoint
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
U. S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Bodden Corporate Services
Schiff's Insurance Observer
Former offshore bank promoter and author of books such as ‘Hiding Your Money’ and ‘How to Own Your Own Private International Bank’
Callenders & Co
Deloitte & Touche
Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
Milberg Weiss & Bershad LLP
Holland + Knight
