Profile of our Expert(s)
Profiles of our resident experts advising on various issues in the forensic accountancy / forensic auditing field:
INDEX
Profiles of the current experts are as follows:
Law Expert
We have assigned John Dierckx as our Resident Expert on Law matters and John's CV reads as follows:
John is a seasoned investigator/investigative consultant, litigation support consultant , business forensic service provider, intelligence, and risk management professional. He has successfully been involved in a wide range of fraud investigations, organized crime operations, intelligence(BI/CI), risk and security management assignments and civil litigation support projects.
John worked locally (Netherlands and New Zealand) and internationally through organizations such as the Dutch and New Zealand Police, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Forensic Services Netherlands), Hoffmann Bedrijfsrecherche BV (Netherlands), Corporate Risks New Zealand (1997) Ltd and his own ventures: Dierckx & Associates Ltd and ARCIS New Zealand Ltd.
He has successfully been involved in assignments and projects for clients ranging from small businesses and private persons to large multinational organizations, local and national government bodies. He also has experience in a vast amount of international cases. Some of the cases that made the media in New Zealand include:
- R v Samantha Stevens (convicted of over 90 charges of fraud)
- Soujourner v Aeromarine Ltd /Trevor Robb (A reported case)
- R v Michael Devine (conviction for theft and fraud)
- AHB v Michael Devine (conviction for breaches of Biosecurity Act)
- AHB v Stuart Moir (conviction for breaches of the Bio Security act)
John notes, however that most of the cases he has been involved in over time could have been settled or otherwise resolved outside of the courts and he adds that he would prefer such an approach.
ForensicAuditing.co.za will keep you posted on John's up and coming events and appearances and to view John's contact details in order to ask him a commercial crime related question use the link below to our Resident Expert section:
John Dierckx's contact details
Practical Expert
We have assigned David Alexander as our resident expert consulting on practical matters. David is a rehabilitated fraudster and his current cv looks as follows:
His skills and expertise are clarifying, simplifying and explaining human behaviour in fraud and financial crime situations. As a speaker and consultant he concentrates on the critical “people” component of fraud, social engineering and economic crime.
He has extremely valuable insights and perspectives into this subject born of personal experience. He has in depth understanding of the mind, motives, and techniques of manipulation and methods of operation of people who become involved in fraud.
An integral part of his services are workshops and corporate training on human behaviour in fraud and financial crime and he is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences on the “people” component of fraud, corporate abuse and social engineering. He states his mission is to add tangible value to his clients by helping them to understand the “people” risk they face.
This places them in a position to assess the suitability of their current corporate structures, value systems, governance and fraud management plans. As part of his service offering he assists clients in the design and implementation of changes to their corporate structures to deal with and minimise the fraud and abuse risks that emanate from human behaviour.
He also speaks to a wide variety of audiences on decisions and consequences, moral choices, integrity and ethics from the basis of his own experiences and life journey, wrong choices and decisions to encourage and empower them to make quality life choices and enjoy positive outcomes.
He is the South African Associate of the ARCIS Fraud Discovery and Exposure Centre and the South African Affiliate of System Interface Solutions. In addition to these affiliations he is an active participant in a worldwide network of fraud professionals from all disciplines and he is able to access their collective expertise in the resolution of any situation in the fraud prevention and resolution field. Please feel free to have a look at his profile on LinkedIn for further details. He has recently co-founded Scam Stop with Lynne Thackeray, an online community dedicated to stopping scams, fraud and general on line and real world abuses
For a more detailed full version of David's CV use this link:
Go view Alec Hogg's interview with David Alexander on the SAfm Market Update on 24/10/2008 on YouTube:
Interview with Alec Hogg on YouTube
David also has the following appearences coming up in the near future:
David will be speaking at the Business Fraud Focus on the 9th of June 2009 at the Sandton Convention Centre and other speakers at the event include Professor Mervyn King, Advocate Vusi Pikoli, Advocate Steven Powell and Leon Louw, for more information regarding the event visit the link below:
David speaking at Business Fraud Focus
David will also be delivering a speech on the critical "people" element of security and crime at the ITWeb Security Summit 2009 to be held at Vodaworld Midrand on the 26 - 28th of May 2009. For more information regarding the event please use the link below:
David speaking at ITWeb Security Summit 2009
For David's contact details to book him for an event or ask him a question related to fraud visit our Resident Expert Section (link below):
Accounting / Investigation Experts
To be announced.
