Jules B. Kroll

Jules B. Kroll is Chairman and co-founder of K2 Global Consulting and Chairman and CEO of Kroll Bond Ratings, Inc.

Jules is the founder of Kroll Inc (NASDAQ: KROL) and is the acknowledged founder of the modern investigations, intelligence, and security industry. In 1972, he established Kroll Associates Inc. as a consultant to corporate purchasing departments, and in doing so, created the prototype for a new breed of professional services firm dedicated to mitigating risk. His firm ultimately reached annual revenues of $1 billion in 2008. By employing former prosecutors, law enforcement officials, journalists, and academics who utilized sophisticated fact-finding techniques to address decision-makers’ needs for accurate information, Mr. Kroll established investigations and risk consulting as valuable corporate services. More…

Jeremy M. Kroll

Jeremy is the CEO and co-founder of K2 Global Consulting, a global risk consulting firm with offices in New York, London, Madrid and Bahrain. Jeremy oversees K2 Global’s consulting and investigative operations.

K2 Global was founded with the philosophy that a leaner, more responsive and technologically innovative risk consultancy would better meet the needs of today’s complex problems. Specializing in transactional risk assessment, corruption and fraud assessment, due diligence, asset recovery and complex financial problems, K2 combines two generations of investigative experience with new technologies and a far-reaching network of experts and specialists able to meet the complex problems of today’s global business environment.
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Charles Carr

Charles Carr is the Executive Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting in London. He has 15 years of investigations and business intelligence experience from around the world.

Prior to joining K2, he has been head of Kroll Associates Fraud and Corruption services in EMEA, Country Manager for Kroll Mexico and also headed up Kroll’s Southern Europe business based in Milan.

Charles has also worked as an oil futures broker on the International Petroleum Exchange and in the art world in Madrid and London.

Bruce Goslin

Bruce Goslin is an Executive Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting. Based in Madrid, Spain, he covers Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Throughout his career, Bruce has assisted an array of clients including “Fortune 500” and major multinationals in the energy, oil and banking industries.

Before joining K2, Bruce had been a Senior Managing Director at Kroll with a focus on Latin America, eventually serving as Country Head for Spain. Bruce also spent 14 years as a foreign intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, supervising sensitive intelligence operations and managing complex policy issues with senior foreign government officials.

Vincent D’Amelio

Vincent D’Amelio is the Executive Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting in New York.

His experience assisting companies and clients with complex accounting and litigation issues spans over 20 years and has included work at the New York County District Attorney’s office and Navigant Consulting.  He specializes in forensic accounting investigations relative to Ponzi schemes, asset misappropriation, financial statement fraud, fidelity insurance claims, independent monitoring and regulatory compliance.  He has served as an independent integrity monitor throughout his career including leading the financial oversight of the demolition and debris removal at the World Trade Center site on behalf of the City of New York.

Vince is a certified public accountant (CPA).  He holds a degree from the City University of New York-Queens College and is certified in Financial Forensics.

Matteo Bigazzi

Matteo Bigazzi is an Executive Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting and is based in K2′s London office. Prior to joining K2 Global, Matteo was an Associate Managing Director at Kroll, where he spent 9 years in the firm’s London and Milan offices.

Throughout his career Matteo has worked on a wide variety of cases including fraud and corruption investigations, fraud prevention assignments, corruption recovery programmes, due diligences and asset searches.

Matteo speaks English, Italian, Polish, French and Russian.

Thomas Bock

Thomas Bock is a Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting based in New York. He has over 18 years of experience serving the financial services industry in the areas of anti-money laundering, regulatory compliance, fraud investigations and risk management. He specializes in Know Your Customer, Customer Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, USA PATRIOT Act, Risk Assessments, Enhanced Due Diligence, FCPA and financial fraud investigations.

Throughout his professional career, Tom conducted a series of corporate fraud investigations, created fraud prevention policies, worked with clients’ Compliance, Audit and Legal groups to perform anti-money laundering assessments, training, risk evaluation and investigations, and performed corporate governance reviews and pre-acquisition due diligence compliance assessments. He also developed and implemented an anti-money laundering transaction monitoring and case management tool used to help several global financial institutions assess millions of transactions.

Prior to joining K2 Global, Tom held various managing positions at CIT Group, Ernst & Young, Daylight Forensic & Advisory LLC and KPMG, where he directed teams performing anti-money laundering services on behalf of large financial institutions.

Max Cawdron

Max Cawdron is a Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting and is based in K2′s Madrid office.

Before joining K2 he spent six years with the Kroll Inc. office in Madrid where he was head of Business Intelligence and Investigations for Spain and Portugal. Max has managed corporate investigations, market entry projects and successful international asset searches in the context of complex commercial disputes involving multinational corporations and state controlled financial entities. He previously worked at Mancera Ernst & Young and Macmillan Publishers in Mexico City.

John Chard

John Chard is Vice President of Corporate Development for K2 Global Consulting, where he works on new venture, strategic development, and client engagement efforts. John previously served as a Director at Kroll Inc in the Consulting Services Group, where his assignments included transaction valuation services, operational risk assessments and due diligence investigative work for the private equity, hedge fund, banking and insurance industries.

Prior to his time at Kroll, John played a leading role in developing the European Corporate Finance practice knowledge capabilities in Europe, the US and India for McKinsey & Company.

Paul de Bendern

Paul is a Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting and is based in London.  Paul has an extensive and illustrious career in journalism, with 16 years at Reuters news agency in senior positions in Latin America, North Africa, Turkey, Scandinavia and most recently in charge of Thomson Reuters 100 news staff in India.

Paul has strong on-the-ground experience in financial, energy & commodities and political risk coverage of many of the world’s most complex countries and regions. He has built up an extensive network and expertise.  He comes with senior management skills, project development, risk assessment and investigation.

Throughout his career he has interacted with political leaders, policy makers and CEOs from around the world, and has been called on to speak at events and for key clients on risk in India, Turkey and Algeria among others.

Paul’s extensive  experience from his posts in New Delhi, Istanbul/Ankara, Algiers, Helsinki, Stockholm and Panama City will further broaden the range of expertise that the K2 London office uses to manage and mitigate its clients’ risks.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Paul speaks French, Spanish, English and Swedish.

Philip S. Sherman

Phil is the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of K2 Global Consulting. Phil brings an extensive operations background and more than 25 years of experience in senior executive positions within the financial services industry. Phil managed finance, accounting, information technology, investments, administration and special projects involving process improvement and system design and integration. As a member of senior management teams, he solved problems, aligned IT strategies with business requirements, analyzed results, increased profitability, evaluated transactions, and managed change.

Prior to joining K2, Phil was Chief Operating Officer of M.D. Sass, CFO of ACA Financial Guaranty, EVP & CFO of Reliance Insurance Company and SVP & Group Controller of Reliance Group Holdings. Phil began his career in public accounting rising to the level of Audit Manager at Deloitte and Touche.

Sabina Menschel

Sabina Menschel is a Managing Director in K2 Global Consulting’s New York office. In this capacity she plays an active role in client engagements and business development efforts and is also involved with management and operational issues.

Prior to joining K2, Sabina worked at Kroll Inc. for over seven years and served in a number of positions at the company. Most recently, Sabina was an Associate Managing Director, serving clients on a wide range of transactional advisory and investigative work. Sabina also served as a Special Advisor in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.

Rodrigo Quintero

Rodrigo Quintero is Managing Director at K2 Global Consulting and is based in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Previously Rodrigo was Founding Partner of Strategic Security Consulting and Senior Director of Security & Crisis Management practice at Kroll Associates in Madrid, serving multinational clients in the Middle East and North Africa. Rodrigo has wide experience in the development of business continuity plans, intelligence studies, risk and threat assessments, security information analysis, emergency response and evacuation plans and security audits. Rodrigo also worked for the Spanish Ministry of Defense for 16 years in different positions and geographic areas, including Spanish Embassies in Riyadh and Tehran.

Jason Golub

Jason Golub is Director and Chief Compliance Officer at K2 Global Consulting, based in the firm’s New York office. In this capacity he plays an active role in managing client engagements and business development efforts. Jason advises clients on a wide range of investigative, transactional and regulatory issues. Prior to joining K2 Global, Jason was counsel in the Securities Enforcement and Litigation group of Wilmer, Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in New York. At WilmerHale, Jason represented corporations, hedge funds and individuals in a wide array of high-profile securities investigations and regulatory matters.

Matt Unger

Matt Unger is Managing Director of Digital Product Management at K2 Global Consulting, where he oversees an array of investigative product initiatives as well as K2’s overall Web strategies. Prior to joining K2, he was Vice President, Product Management, at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he was responsible for the development of proprietary consulting and research technologies.

Matt’s 15-year career has also included product management roles at various media companies including Time Inc, CondeNast, and iVillage.