Our Principal Anti-Fraud Consultant

Mr. Stanley Chia

Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) - http://www.acfe.com/
Certified Member (CAMS) with Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) - http://www.acams.org/
Certified System Investigator (CSI) with the CSI World Headquarters - www.csi-worldhq.org/
Member of Australasian Compliance Institute (ACI) - www.compliance.org.au/
Member of GRC Group New York - http://www.grcg.com/

Stanley is both the Director & Principal Consultant of CFE Strategic Alliances, the training arm of CFE-In-Practice group of companies and also the Managing Director of ICFE Consultancy Group Pte Ltd, a think-tank company that provides multi-consultancy solutions to companies world-wide. He specializes in fraud investigation, investigative interviewing & profiling techniques and has handled numerous cases for both local and foreign financial institutions.

Stanley is also the current Honorary Vice Chairperson of CSI World Headquarters, an international accreditation body for Digital Forensic. Stanley has worked for large financial institutions like AIA Insurance, Singapore Exchange and United Overseas Bank where he was involved in anti-money laundering, compliance, enforcement and fraud investigation work. To date, he has investigated more than 100 fraud and compliance-related cases and some of them involved over US$1M.

He is well versed in financial products knowledge, fraud examination techniques and compliance methodologies. Stanley is often invited to speak at conferences and seminars in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Shanghai where he taught fraud investigation, investigative interviewing techniques profiling techniques and internal control. He has also co-authored a series of pocket-sized guide books for auditors published by CSI World Headquarters. He is currently writing a book on Interviewing & profiling techniques - ISBN 978-981-08-0599-9.

He also holds a Master of Commerce, specializing in Business Law from The University of New South Wales. He obtained his Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Money & Banking and Accounting in 2001 from The University of Western Australia.

Our Resident Expert Adviser

Mr. Tommy Seah
Certified Fraud Examiner
World Class Financial Management Expert
Double Firsts in Financial Management and Accountancy (U.K.)
Chartered Banker, International Accountant, FCPA (USA), CSOXP
Member of Advisory Board to SOX Institute (N.Y.)

Tommy is someone that you would like to meet and to know. Straight talking, sincere, kind, helpful and without pretences, he is truly a man of strong conviction and blessed with many practical talents. First and foremost, he is a World Class hands-on accountant He has worked as an Accountant for some of the largest companies in the world. He is a tried and tested accountant with a very firm grip on financial products. Because of his grip on the subject matter, his services in providing technical training is much sought after by numerous banks in the region, including Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. Tommy's other professional achievements would have been the objects of envy for many of his peers. Some of the better known fact is that he is the only Singaporean that sits on the ACFE Board of Regents in Texas, USA. In the year 2006, his strategic management skills were put to the test and his contribution was duly acknowledged when he was elected the ACFE Board of Regents, Vice-Chairman. Based in Austin, Texas, ACFE is the best recognised and largest Fraud Examination Body in the world. While in Singapore, he also help founded the CSI World Headquarters, a Digital Forensics Certification body. To this day, he is the Chairperson Emeritus for the CSI World Headquarters. His previous work experience includes systems based auditing in an American International Bank, where he was the Senior Regional Auditor responsible for the Bank's audit in the Asia Pacific region. He has also held the top executive position of Chief of Internal Audit in a prime offshore bank where his audit duties cover the Singapore and Hong Kong operations of the bank. He covers all areas of the bank's audit of operations and IT systems. He also has practical working experience in the Operations Department of a foreign bank. Tommy Seah is the author of seven financial books including the Multiple Currency Accounting (MCA) for bank accounting. The Financial Instruments Guide (FIG) is also another authoritative and definitive text on Financial Instruments designed to be used in the world wide banking industry for product training. His publication has received excellent review and first class commendation from some of the most authoritative professional certification body and top rated banks in the world. The other five authoritative texts used in his training are The Control of Money Market Activities in Banks, Financial Management, SWAPS in Investment Banking, Advanced Credit Analysis and Anti-Money Laundering 101. His latest publication is The Foreign Exchange Audit. The FOREX Audit eBook is available from April 2008.

For the past twenty nine years, Tommy Seah has trained and coached more than 10,000 management staff and some of the top CFOs, CEOs, CIOs, COOs in MNCs, banks and financial institutions in the region. In particular, his expertise in SOX 404, AML and Basel II, Solvency ll systems implementation is much sought after by many organisations. The undisputable fact is that when it comes to financial training, Tommy is Number 1 and the top household brand name in Asia Pacific.

Advisory Consultant for Digital Forensics

Mr. Phillip Russo

Phillip is an ex law enforcement officer within the Western Australian Police Service with almost 17 years of investigational experience, including being a forensic investigator and training officer within the Computer Crime Squad. During this time he has had papers published and delivered within international computer security forums including Moscow and New York, and presented at the Information Security Summit in Hong Kong in November 2006 and recently at the CSI Fraud conference, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in November 2007.

After moving on from his Police career he has been responsible for building one of Australia's first banking forensic capabilities for Halifax Bank of Scotland Australia HBOSA and chaired the incident response team within one of Australia's leading banks "Bankwest", dealing with issues pertaining to online fraud including phishing and trojan attacks aimed at the Australian banking communities.

For over the past 7 years now Phillip has been instructing many It Professionals in the art of computer forensics, and has been employed by Guidance software: Encase and the AccessData Forensic Tool Kit.

Due to his training experience with AccessData his Australian training qualifications and experiences as a police academy instructor, he has been called upon by the Australian High-tech Crime Unit AHTCU, Australian federal and state police, Australian Defense, world leading banks and multi national companies including the big four to train and develop their staff within the area of computer forensics.

In Nov 2006 he played an integral part of a nationally significant case involving the first person charged under the new cyber crime legislation. The Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions engaged Phillip as their computer forensic expert witness. The defence had initially entered a plea of not guilty to 16 charges however after the evidence from Phillip's investigations was presented to the court the defense changed their plea to guilty to all 16 charges.

Phillip has just completed a number of extended tours of the UK , USA and Australia , delivering training and expert advice to companies and law enforcement agencies including Scotland Yard, US Homeland Security , ICE Immigration Customs Enforcement , Boeing the Australian Federal Police and many other agencies and corporate entities. Phillip was also given the honor of delivering training at a number of the FBI's RCFL (Regional Computer Forensics Labs) during his USA trips. Since his first trip Phillip has been requested to attend and deliver other training in the USA for both law enforcement and corporate entities.

In November 2007 Phillip was requested to attend and speak the CSI Worldwide ACFE Fraud conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Phillip has already been requested to return again in 2008 for the next conference.

In January 2008 Phillip delivered the first of his new courses focusing on a practical digital evidence gathering course, this was delivered in Singapore to over 20 Participants at the SMA involving corporate law enforcement and government entities.

In February 2008 Phillip attended New York City USA and Washington DC and completed his Forensic ProDiscover Certified Examiners Examination. It was also here that he and Mr Anthony Reyes of ARC www.arcgroupny.com Wall st Manhattan New York , formed a strategic partnership permitting both companies to offer forensic services on a worldwide scale covering Australia USA South America and Asia.

Mr. Russo holds a number of It security and Forensics credentials including being a Certified Fraud Examiner, holding a post graduate degree in IT Security from Edith Cowan Australian University and is completing his Masters of Digital forensics through ECU as well as a Gold status GIAC GSEC With SANS. He is also on the CSI board of governors and is actively engaged by many first class organizations to deliver the worlds best practices in all areas of forensics and IT Security worldwide.

Human Learning and Organisational Development Professional
Principal, Trailblazer Associates International

Mr. Noel E K Tan

Key Competencies

Strategic Planning

• Consulting with an educational non-profit and its governing board to clarify its mission and align core programme offerings.
• Facilitated vision development for a public hospital department involving senior consultants, registrars and senior nurses.

Organisational Development (Using Large-Scale Systems Change Methods)

• Consulting on a public-sector inter-organisation clustering project involving 5500 personnel, providing advice on culture change issues, vision-mission-values creation and development of internal champions.
• Consulting on a public-sector merger of 2 groups of experts within a uniformed parent organisation, providing advice on culture change issues, vision-mission-values creation, and organisational design.

Team Development

• Worked with an educational sector management team on improving communication and enhancing inter-department collaboration.
• Facilitated ongoing team development for a homegrown SME in the semi-conductor industry, with sales offices in major Southeast Asian capitals, helping local and overseas sales teams improve performance.

Management & Leadership Development

• Worked with senior management and volunteers of a non-profit operating in the relief missions space to improve the co-ordination of their operations in crisis settings.
• Development of mentorship skills and tools for teachers in an autonomous school to work more effectively with their student-leaders.

Training Delivery

• Delivers training in team and leadership development, systems thinking and learning organisation tools for corporate contexts.
• In his work in the education sector, he delivers programmes for teachers and parents in brain-based learning, social and emotional learning and common-sense leadership for student leaders.
• Applies his expertise in human learning processes to his work with trainee teachers at the National Institute of Education, and teaches Government and Politics of Singapore to undergraduates at the Nanyang Technological University.

Educational Qualifications

• MEd, (Educational Management), The University of Sheffield, UK
• MSc, (Strategic Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• BA, National University of Singapore

Professional Qualifications

• Associate, Tier 1, Caine Learning Institute, USA
• Certified Associate, Emergenetics International, USA
• Consultant, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, USA
• Consultant, Neethling Brain Instruments® Suite Consultant, South Africa
• Consultant, People Developer Standard, Singapore
• Behavioural Analyst, DiSC Institute of Motivational Living, USA
• Consultant, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) Consultant, Australia

Other Information

• Married for 13 years to Brenda, and father to Ethan, Edna and Ezra, Noel has wide reading interests covering Current Affairs, Systems Thinking, Learning Organisation, Leadership and Mentoring, War Studies, Military History, Learning and Development issues.
• He is currently interested in researching:
  • Beginning leaders’ mental models and metaphor usage
  • How individuals learn and develop expertise
  • How organisations understand and utilise experts
  • Large-Scale/Whole Systems change methods in Organisational Development
• He is a parent volunteer with the Boys’ Brigade in Singapore and mentors new Sunday School teachers in his local parish.

Contact
Email: noel@go-trailblazer.com
HP: 98002788

Advisory Consultant for Investigation and Forensics Examinations

Mr. David C. Rule

Profile
Over 24 years of professional experience in project management, security consulting and commercial investigations. Senior manager with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in Boston March 2007 October 2008. Director of Forensic Services Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and head of the firm's Analytical and Forensic Technology (AFT) practice in Hong Kong, China from January 2006 March 2007.

Experience
Recent fraud investigations have included cases involving violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), intellectual property (IP) theft and embezzlement. All projects have utilized business intelligence services (BIS), data collection of electronically stored information (ESI), analyzing data and mapping of investigations.
Global multi jurisdictional investigations and e-discovery projects have covered data preservation, evidence collection and interviews.
Investigations and project engagements have ranged from 1 to 800 custodians and involved various industries including technology, telecommunication, financial services, conglomerates and manufacturing.

Recent Presentations 2008
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Boston and Granite State chapters Investigations and utilization of computer forensics.
i2's Annual user conference in Washington DC Complicated Investigations.

Security Services
Technical Surveillance (TS) and Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) trained by Audiotel in the UK a supplier of TS and TSCM equipment.
Professional Development:

Certified Protection Professional, CPP American Society for Industrial Security | ASIS http://www.asisonline.org/
Certified Fraud Examiner, CFE Association of Certified Fraud Examiners | ACFE http://www.cfenet.com/home.asp
Certified Forensic Consultant, CFC American College of Forensic Examiners institute | ACFEI http://www.acfei.com/main.php
Certified Medical Investigator CMI^II American College of Forensic Examiners institute | ACFEI http://www.acfei.com/main.php
EnCase Certified Examiner EnCE | Guidance Software http://www.guidancesoftware.com/

Membership of Professional Bodies:

• American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS)
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Ex Chapter President Hong Kong 2004-07
• American College of Forensic Examiners Institute of Forensic Science (ACFEI) life member
• Asia Professional Security Association (APSA)
• International Professional Security Association (IPSA)
• High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)
• International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)
• Hong Kong Law Society
• International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP)

Advisory Consultant for Accounting, Finance, and Taxation

Mr. Lim Teck King

MBA - Edinburgh
CPA - Australia
CA, FTII - Malaysia
CSOX, CFE, CIA, CICA - United States of America
CPA, CCP, CSI, MSIArb, AIPAS - Singapore

Mr. Lim Teck King is currently a Regional Financial Controller for a NYSE company in the marine construction industry. He has more than 14 years of work experience in the areas of financial reporting, taxation, forecasting, budgeting, improvements of internal controls systems, SOX compliance and systems implementation. He has worked in varied industries including semiconductor, information technology and big 4 accounting firms in Singapore & Malaysia.

In addition to holding active accounting licenses (CPA) in Singapore, Malaysia & Australia, he is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified in Sarbanes-Oxley (CSOX), Certified Credit Professional (CCP) and Certified System Investigator (CSI).

Teck King is also a Fellow Member of the Malaysia Institute of Taxation (MIT) and member of professional bodies like the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SiArb), Singapore Institute of Internal Auditors (IIAS), Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and Institute Management of Accountants (IMA).

Teck King graduated with a Bachelor of Business in Accountancy (Distinctions) from RMIT University, Australia and subsequently completed his MBA with Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Baldric Wu

Advisory Consultant for Asset Protection and Loss Prevention

Mobile: (852) 9275 5104
Email: baldricwu@gmail.com

Baldric has more than 10 years of professional experiences in investigation, surveillance works, crisis management and asset protection services. He kicked start his career at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Hong Kong (ICAC) in 1996. As an ICAC officer, Baldric soon became grounded in his investigative capabilities. He continued to shine at the following career advancement:

Office of The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data

• The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers
• Quest Research Ltd (Hong Kong)
• Sino Security Services Ltd
• Control Risk Group (Hong Kong)

To date, Baldric had investigated and/or managed hundreds of cases and crisis management and/or assets protection projects. He had traveled the Asia Pacific regions extensively and is well connected with both the business communities and law enforcement agencies. He is a versatile professional who is able to adapt to any environment or situation he is being placed into, which is why he has scored high in efficiency and success rate. He is a specialist in the following areas:

1. Corporate Investigation - due diligence
2. Corruption Investigation - public and private sectors 
3. Fraud Investigation
4. Interview suspects having admission from them on several occasions 
5. Security assessment/audit
6. Security guard training
7. Crisis Management
8. VIP Protection

Baldric is also a well-qualified professional in his own rights. He has the following professional certification:

• Certified Protection Officer - IFPO
• Member of ASIS
• Certified System Investigator - CSI World Headquarters
• Certified Fraud Examiner - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• Qualified SITO Trainer (BJT) - Security Industry Training Organisation Ltd, UK

Baldric graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies) from Queens College, City University of New York, USA in 1994. He also obtained a Post-graduate certificate in Business Administration awarded by University of Leicester, UK in 2007.