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Some of the speakers you will see and hear at the Third Annual IAAR Conference:

KENNETH BARDEN

KENNETH BARDEN has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years and has been an international consultant since the mid-1990s. Currently, he is senior advisor on a USAID project in the Middle East providing technical assistance in anti-money laundering and financial integrity. Prior to that, Mr. Barden was team leader on the Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Indonesia Control of Corruption Project based in Jakarta where he provided guidance to the PPATK (Indonesian equivalent of a financial intelligence unit) and the KPK, corruption prevention commission. He served as the first coordinator of the Financial Intelligence Unit for the Republic of Palau. He has worked on a number of international development and capacity building projects (primarily in the areas of AML, financial integrity and tax and customs administration) in over 35 countries throughout Asia, Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has been an active member of the IAAR, and was a member of the inaugural class of the CSAR exam in 2010.

TRACY COENEN

TRACY COENEN is a forensic accountant and fraud investigator with Sequence Inc. in Milwaukee and Chicago, investigating embezzlement, financial statement fraud, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes, white collar crimes, insurance fraud, and civil litigation matters. She is a Certified Public Accountant and is Certified in Financial Forensics, as well as a former Adjunct Professor at Concordia University in Wisconsin. Tracy has penned more than 100 articles on fraud and forensic accounting, and is the author of two books, Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide and Essentials of Corporate Fraud. She is also the lead author for the AICPA's publication The CPA's Handbook of Fraud and Commercial Crime Prevention.

JONATHAN COOPERMAN

Jonathan Cooperman, HBA, CA•CIRP, CSAR, is a Partner with Farber Financial Group. He is the leader of the Fraud, Forensic & Asset Recovery practice. Jonathan focuses on uncovering and recovering assets for victims of fraud around the world, and helps resolve complex fraud schemes involving Canadian funds and assets. For example, he led the receivership team for a $100 million “tooth whitening” Ponzi scheme with activities in Costa Rica, Jamaica, Belize, California and Switzerland. With almost 30 years of insolvency, investigations and asset recovery experience, Jonathan is unique in that, unlike many other anti-fraud specialists, he is a licensed Trustee in Bankruptcy in Canada and often acts as a Court-Appointed Receiver with extensive powers in Canada and around the world as an officer of the Court. He can be called into a case by a law firm or another fraud investigator – such as a matrimonial or shareholder dispute, or a Ponzi scheme – where it is necessary to seize the assets of one of the parties and investigate the fraud. Recently, Jonathan was the only Trustee in Bankruptcy quoted in an article called, “The Perils of Ponzis,” in the Forensics & Criminal Law Legal Report section of Canadian Lawyer magazine. Jonathan holds an Honors Business Administration degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He is also a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professional. Jonathan was the first Canadian to become certified by the IAAR as a Certified Specialist in Asset Recovery (CSAR).

EDWARD H. DAVIS, JR

EDWARD H. DAVIS, JR has tracked down and recovered stolen and wrongfully-held assets in some of the most notorious fraud and corruption cases of the last decade, involving jurisdictions from Japan and the Caribbean to Latin America and Liechtenstein. He has led teams of lawyers on behalf of countries that were trying to unwind corrupt and fraudulent dealings involving public funds. A founding partner of the Miami law firm Astigarraga Davis, he represents corporate and individual victims of fraud as well as financial institutions in creditors' rights cases, and handles financial investigations, asset tracing and recovery, and litigation. He advises clients, including bank audit committees and other corporate entities, in fraud prevention and crisis response. He also represents financial institutions against borrowers and third parties in cases of fraudulent transfers, commercial loan enforcement, enforcement of domestic and foreign judgments and foreclosures. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Asset Recovery.

JAMES EARP

JAMES EARP is a Partner in the Recovery and Reorganisation Practice at Grant Thornton UK LLP. With more than 20 years experience in all aspects of recovery and reorganization, he specializes in investigation and proceeds of crime work. He leads a team of more than 70 professionals focused on recovery actions in the UK and overseas and his international experience has included assignments in Europe, Australia, South Africa, Canada and offshore jurisdictions. He has received court receivership appointments under the Criminal Justice System to investigate the proceeds of crime, as management receiver and to enforce confiscation orders. He is a frequent speaker on fraud and asset tracing and is a regular contributor to publications including two chapters in the book "Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure".

KEVIN FLANAGAN

KEVIN FLANAGAN A former Detective with the New York City Police Department, Kevin Flanagan has over 20 years of distinguished service in law enforcement, investigating and managing high-profile personal, property crimes, and major incidents. As a former Senior Director at Kroll and Associates, he assisted a wide variety of clients, both public and private entities, with site and threat assessment, security systems organization and deployment, investigations, and other security matters. As the Director of Law Enforcement Systems at TLO, uses his law enforcement investigative experience, risk management, and private security knowledge to assist in creating TLO’s vetting and due diligence process of prospective TLOxp clients. He also leads TLO’s efforts in internal audits, ensuring both TLO’s and TLO clients’ compliance with all laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures associated with the data industry. Additionally, Kevin spearheads special projects. His duties include assisting clients with difficult investigations, interpreting data and data sets, and recommending next steps in sensitive investigative matters.

MOSES HERNANDEZ

MOSES HERNANDEZ A Senior IT Security Member at TLO, he has a large breadth of working with projects of Information Security related matters such as Incident Handling, Secured Network Design, as well as other advanced topics such as Ethical Hacking, Reverse Malware Engineering and exploit development. He has provided consulting solutions and assistance at local banks and municipalities. He has helped the local ISSA board with various Information Security competitions.

ERNEST "E.J." HILBERT

ERNEST "E.J." HILBERT is the President of Online Intelligence, an Orange County, Calif.-based firm dedicated to security and investigations in the cyber and computer forensics field. He is considered an expert in cyber crime, cyber security and cyber investigations, and is the former Director of Security Enforcement for Fox Interactive Media and MySpace. E.J. served for 8 years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) specializing in Eastern European hacking groups, cyber crime, white collar crime and counter terrorism investigations. His expertise includes forensic accounting, IT consulting, security audits, payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS), security best-practices, security policies and procedures, and financial investigations.

CHARLES A. INTRIAGO

CHARLES A. INTRIAGO is the founder and president of IAAR. He launched Money Laundering Alert in 1989, MoneyLaundering.com in 1996, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) in 2001, the world's leading credentialing organization for persons with money laundering control responsibilities. His international money laundering conferences in South Florida drew some 1,500 attendees, including large numbers of law enforcement and regulatory officials and bankers. Previously, he served as chief counsel to an investigative subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives which oversaw the Department of Justiceˆ, Treasury Department, FBI, DEA, IRS, Postal Service and others involved in law enforcement, prosecution and the recovery of criminal assets. He was an Assistant US Attorneyˆ in Miami prosecuting white-collar criminals, drug traffickers, corrupt public officials and fraudsters, and Special Counsel on Organized Crime of Florida, where he wrote the statewide grand jury law.

RANDALL KESSLER

RANDALL KESSLER is the founder of Atlanta based KS Family Law and is the chair-elect of the ABA Section of Family Law and the GA Bar Association. He has over 20 years of experience in Domestic Relations and Family Law matters including divorce, custody, paternity, prenuptial agreements and child support. He has used alternative litigation financing to recover assets for his clients, who include the ex-wives of several high-profile professional athletes and celebrities. He has also recovered marital assets held illegally by fraudsters. In addition, he teaches Family Law at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta.