Financial Crime, Compliance and Investigations

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

I’ve spent over 40 years on the same problem, working out what actually happened, who was involved, and what it means for those who have to live with the outcome of the event in question.

My career began with 16 years as a Police Officer on a specialist Scotland Yard squad tackling organized vice crime, before becoming the lead investigator on the newly formed internet unit. The vice work involved covert investigations into organized coercion, international trafficking, and the money laundering and corruption that sat behind it. The internet work was genuinely pioneering - we were building investigative methodologies in real time, and several of the cases I led became stated cases that helped establish early UK precedent on issues such as jurisdiction and publication. That period taught me something that has shaped everything since: evidence in legal or regulatory proceedings is only as good as the rigor of the process that produced it.
I then moved into the private sector, spending 12 years in Technology Risk and Forensic Services at PwC in the UK, where I led …