David Alexander is a partner in KPMG. Based in Birmingham, he is responsible for KPMG’s fraud investigation and fraud risk management services throughout the Midlands. He has over fifteen years' experience in carrying out investigations involving false accounting, procurement fraud, theft, allegations of impropriety and banking and treasury fraud. Many of the assignments involve international locations.

David has served on the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and as a member of the international fraud committee. He is currently a member of the Association’s UK chapter steering committee.

David Whincup is a partner in Hammonds' Employment Practice, based in the London office. His expertise covers a wide variety of employment-related issues, including, in particular, recruitment issues, drafting contracts of employment at all levels, disciplinary and grievance procedures, redundancies at individual and collective levels, and the defence of employee discrimination claims and other litigation. He speaks and writes regularly on employment matters, both in-house to clients and on a commercial basis, including providing regular employment law updates to the Institute of Chartered Accountants and being a member of the editorial board and chapter author of Croner.CCH's "Managing Termination of Employment". He is also a columnist for City Personnel Group newsletters and "Education Law Update".

Guy Dehn is the Director of Public Concern At Work, the whistleblowing charity. The charity has four key activities: free legal help for individuals who are concerned about wrongdoing at work but are unsure whether or how to raise the matter; training and professional services for organisations; research and policy work on governance; and public education. Through this work Guy was closely involved in settling the scope and detail of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, and he also advises on comparable initiatives in the international sphere. Before founding Public Concern At Work in 1993, Guy was legal officer to the National Consumer Council for six years, and subsequently served as an elected member of the Council of The Consumers' Association. He is also a practising barrister and chair of the Allen Lane Foundation.

Malcolm Driscoll joined Hertfordshire Constabulary from school, and served uniform duties and six years in CID at St Albans before moving to Hertfordshire's Fraud Squad in 1995. His individual fraud investigations have included cases in insurance, the NHS, health scheme administration, mortgages and the mobile phone industry. Enquiries conducted overseas include Hawaii and Zambia, and extradition proceedings with the FBI in San Francisco. In March 2002 he transferred to the City of London Police Fraud Squad. He is the recipient of three Crown Court commendations for fraud investigation.

Ron Warmington joined GE Consumer Finance in 2001, as European Regional Loss Prevention Director and Head of Investigations. Prior to that he had spent 27 years at Citibank, starting as head of the bank’s European Computer Audit Department, where he oversaw the design of controls in all new bank computer systems, and later holding positions including Head of Internal Audit for Northern Europe and Chief Financial Officer for the Global Asset Management business. In his last 12 years at Citibank Ron specialised in fraud investigation, becoming Global Head of Banking Investigations and Regional Security Head for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before joining Citibank Ron had qualified as a chartered accountant with the City firm Josolyne, Layton-Bennett & Co, specialising in computers and systems design and managing one of the first computer audit departments to be estabished in the UK.

Ian Henderson is Managing Director of Advanced Forensics, which provides forensic services to law firms and a wide range of corporate clients and is authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1984 and specialised in investigations and computer audit at an early stage. He has been trained in forensic procedures and has extensive knowledge of the criminal justice system. Prior to specialising in the provision of forensic services Ian gained extensive experience as an investigator in both the public and the private sector, including appointments as the Head of Investigations at the Personal Investment Authority and manager of Lloyd's of London's Investigations Department. Before training as a chartered accountant he spent nine years as an Army officer, specialising in covert operations against terrorists in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

In the last five years Ian has examined over 250 personal computers and network servers. He has acted for both the prosecution and the defence and has been appointed as a computer forensic expert witness in both civil and criminal cases. He also provides training in computer forensic procedures to the public and private sectors, and is the author of a number of articles concerning digital evidence published in professional journals.

David Thomas is Global Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Standard Chartered Bank's (SCB) Support Functions, but will shortly be relocating to Dubai to head up Human Resources for the bank's Middle East and Southern Asia (MESA) business. He is a member of the Regional Executive Committee for MESA, and the HR Leadership team at the bank. Having joined SCB in 2002 he has spent the last two years working with the bank's directorate in developing effective people strategies for the Finance, Risk, Legal & Compliance, Human Resources, Group Internal Audit and Corporate Affairs groups. His previous experiences include 5 years at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group where laterly he was Head of Human Resources for North America, and 6 years at JP Morgan Chase where he held a number of senior HR positions. Having trained as an employee relations specialist at the Corus Group, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a graduate of Harvard Business Schools Strategic HR programme.

Simon Dawson graduated from Birmingham University in 1976 with a law degree and qualified as a lawyer in 1979. He went on to work for the Crown Prosecution Service, where he became a Principal Crown Prosecutor, prosecuting a number of complex and serious frauds and computer crime cases. He then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers' Forensic Services Division as a Senior Manager, leading significant fraud and financial investigations and carrying out fraud risk management assignments in the UK and overseas. He was also responsible for developing and managing the Division's computer forensics laboratory. In 2001 he joined an international investigations consultancy, where he was Head of Investigations and Fraud Prevention and was responsible for undertaking major investigations on behalf of FTSE 100 and 250 companies, and also participated in fraud prevention projects in the UK and internationally. Since joining The Risk Advisory Group in January 2004, as Head of the Corporate Investigations practice, he has led investigations in Nigeria, Ukraine and India.

Richard Kusnierz is the founder and owner of Investigative Data Mining (IDM), a specialist consultancy dealing with all aspects of data mining and automated fraud detection. Since 1995 he has pioneered the use of internal and external databases to detect fraud and in developing static and dynamic fraud profiling. He is also the managing director and majority shareholder of IDM D.A.T.A. Solutions, an organisation providing bespoke solutions to the retail industry using automated fraud detection methodologies to detect staff theft and collusion. He is a member of the UK Fraud Advisory Panel, the Institute of Professional Investigators and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS); an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; a founder member of the Guild of Security Professionals; and a past secretary of the British Computer Society Computer Security Specialist Group. He regularly writes articles for various specialist publications, including for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and is a frequent speaker at international security and auditing conferences.

Richard has over 13 years' experience of working in the computer industry and a further eight in corporate security and fraud investigations. Prior to forming IDM he held positions at several companies, including Standard Chartered Leasing Company, Wang and ICL.

Alan Livesey is a Technical Adviser to IDM, and the Technical Director of IDM D.A.T.A. Solutions. He is also Managing Director of D.A.T.A. Services, which provides data analysis services and training to clients around the world, including over 30 FTSE 100 companies, various UK government departments and the European Commission. He trained as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young and spent nine years with them on various audit and accounting assignments, specialising in Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) and banking. He left Ernst & Young to join Binder Hamlyn, which subsequently merged with Arthur Andersen, and while there he developed and presented the training in the use of ACL software for Arthur Andersen staff throughout Europe. He is now widely recognised as the premier UK expert in the use and application of ACL, and regularly provides ACL training and lectures on data conversion, data matching and data analysis techniques. He is frequently invited to speak at seminars organised by the Institute of Internal Auditors and CIPFA.