Presenters:

Chris has over 25 years experience carrying out financial investigations and forensic accounting engagements in the public and private sectors. Chris has played an integral role in numerous large scale civil and criminal investigations including: real estate developments, Ponzi schemes, false insurance claims, stock market transactions, cheque kiting, and employee dishonesty cases.

During these investigations Chris prepared expert opinion reports, and assisted his clients with locating significant evidence, interviewing suspects and witnesses, and quantifying the amount for judicial proceedings.

Chris has testified on many occasions in both the USA and Canada, and was qualified as an expert witness in the Federal Court of USA regarding stock market transactions. In addition, Chris has appeared numerous times before Justices of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Federal Court of Canada, to obtain court orders and search warrants.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Chris was retained by the Vancouver Integrated Market Enforcement Team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as its Forensic Accountant. Before this, Chris was employed by a large accounting firm in its Investigation Group and Revenue Canada’s Special Investigations Section, where he investigated organized crime.

Chris is a Certified Management Accountant (1984) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (1997). In 1980 he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Management degree from Ryerson University in Toronto and in 1996 he was awarded a Master of Business Administration degree, with distinction, from the University of Bradford Management Centre, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Dave Iverson, Senior Manager with Grant Thornton LLP's Business Risk Services Group in Vancouver, BC. Dave brings to the practice over ten years of computer forensic and electronic discovery experience. Dave's practice includes providing litigation support with a specialization in computer forensics, electronic discovery and data management. His responsibilities include project management, document management, and electronic discovery assistance. Skill sets specific to the work Dave has performed include providing expert witness testimony, working side by side with clients to arrive at project management solutions, search and recovery of electronic evidence, Enterprise Resource Planning systems data extractions, independent research, and report writing. Dave has been qualified as an expert witness in the BC Supreme Court and has participated in numerous court ordered electronic evidence seizures.