Pete is an internationally recognized anti-corruption specialist, an experienced international forensic accounting investigator, and an investigative practice leader. Most recently, Pete served as an Associate Managing Director in the anti-bribery/corruption (“ABC”) and Fraud group at Exiger. While at Exiger, Pete won and led a variety of engagements throughout the pandemic period, including litigation-related investigative research, corruption risk assessments/remediation, and fraud/corruption investigations for global clients. Pete also started the Thought Leadership Forum at Exiger, working closely with the Sales & Marketing team. Prior to joining Exiger full-time in January 2020, Pete was a contractor supporting Exiger’s contracts with the US Department of Justice FCPA and Securities Fraud Units. Before joining Exiger, he led the PwC Malaysia Investigations practice, which grew significantly in both headcount and revenue during his three-year secondment period, and was PwC’s Southeast Asia regional lead for Anti-Bribery & Corruption. Pete initially joined PwC predecessor firm Coopers & Lybrand in 1998.
Pete serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where he teaches a Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting course to Masters of Accountancy students. Peter also regularly presents seminars to clients, industry groups, and legal counsel, on forensic accounting and fraud-related topics, and has taught Fraud Red Flags, Corruption & Bribery, Post-Crisis Remediation, and both Basic and Advanced Investigations training courses. Pete has taught a wide range of audiences, including the Internal Audit department of a Tokyo-based trading house, the Finance personnel of a Native American tribe in rural Colorado, personnel of the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), and Directors of publicly listed companies for both Bursa Malaysia and the Malaysian Securities Commission (multiple sessions).
Pete is a thought leader whose articles on corruption (including risk assessments), fraud, and computer forensics have been published in multiple countries in various media, including several posts to the FCPA Blog and numerous webinars to counsel and industry groups.
Pete’s professional experience includes a wide variety of forensic engagements across the globe, with onsite experience in over 30 countries. Such engagements included both proactive compliance consulting, reactive investigations, and M&A due diligence projects. Pete has provided advice to clients in both the private and public sectors, in many different industries. Pete was seconded to PwC’s Singapore office from July 2005 to July 2007, and to Malaysia from April 2016 to March 2019, and led both local and regional investigations during his secondments. Pete has participated in presentations to US regulators and testified in court in the US and arbitration in Malaysia.
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