Forensic Data Analytics

Our Services

Our team has the knowledge and experience to assist in a broad range of engagements, from class actions to financial fraud our team can help. While our capabilities can be applied to a variety of matters, some specific services include:

  • Advising clients in the interpretation of data analytics results and supporting follow-on actions (E.g., in-depth document review and in-person interviews)
  • Developing "proactive" tests to identify anomalies indicative of areas of concern, such as fraud, waste or abuse
  • Focused testing tailored to identify potentially corrupt payments in support of the company's anti-corruption efforts
  • Database Development
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Timeseries Forecasting
  • Economic Modeling
  • Financial Modeling
  • Interactive Data Visualization

Engagement Experience

Some highlights of our engagement experience include:

  • Multiple business turnaround matters in industries ranging from Food and Beverage to Telecom involving analytics such as SKU rationalization and profitability analysis.

  • Multiple cases for one of the largest commercial shipping companies in the world, related to a damage dispute regarding package weights and billing charges.

  • Multiple data breach cases including one pertaining to a data breach for a healthcare billing company in which over 51 billion datapoints related to PHI and PII were leaked

  • Assisting to determine damages related to a large payment authentication company being accused of the unlawful storage and selling of user financial data without consent which involves hundreds of millions of records and tens of millions of individuals.

  • Development of various statical sampling methods including monetary unit sampling methodologies to determine damages associated with lost profits for a medical billing dispute and claim sampling for a nation health insurance provider.

  • Expert services related to sampling methodologies and algorithm development for classification of warranty replacements in a class action lawsuit related to an international retailer.

  • Breach of contract disputes for a large auto parts manufacturing company involving years of sales data from multiple sources.

  • Fraud investigation related to fake trades on treasury bonds that resulted in overexposed positions.

  • Modeling and upkeep of data related to over $1 billion worth of cumulatively purchased consumer receivables for B. Riley Financial.

  • Assisted in defense of class certification of an action against a payment card processor providing rechargeable debit cards for federal government benefits regarding allegations of inappropriately denied refunds for alleged fraudulent charges by analyses of over 23 million "service requests" regarding the subject cards and charges that B. Riley segregated to those subject to the class allegations, sampled and showed a lack of damages.

  • Rebutted damages alleged against payment card processor by merchants for certain limited unnotified, excessive and increasing charges and fees which related to $83.1 billion of card processing over 11 years which B. Riley successfully analyzed and showed were justified.

Leadership Team

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Andy Moore

Co-Chief Executive Officer

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Bryant Riley

Co-Chief Executive Officer, B. Riley Financial

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Jaimie Barry

Vice President, Corporate Access

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Mike McCoy

Chief Financial Officer

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Kate Kelly

Chief Talent Officer

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Michael Markunas

Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

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Jimmy Baker

Co-Chief Executive Officer & Head of Capital Markets

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Joe Nardini

Senior Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking

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Nishen Radia

Senior Managing Director, Head of M&A

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Perry Mandarino

Head of Restructuring

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Dawn Farrell

Chief Administrative Officer

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Seth Appel

Senior Managing Director

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Michael Brill

Senior Managing Director

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Matt Feinberg

Senior Managing Director

Robert Arnold

Senior Managing Director

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Michael Lowell

Senior Managing Director

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Alex Wolodzko

Vice President

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Colin Welch

Vice President

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Natalie Bend

Vice President

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Grayson Largman

Director

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Dominic Riley

Vice President

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Daniel Lewis

Director

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Teri Kendall

Director

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Gideon Rosenbaum

Director

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Kathy Innis

Director

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Alexandra Shaffer

Director

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Melissa Woodson

Managing Director

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Becky Popoff

Director

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Igor Belov

Director

Pat Pilouk

Director

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Brian Taylor

Managing Director

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Thomas McGlynn

Managing Director

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Patrick Hanniford

Managing Director

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Keith Pompliano

Managing Director

Michael Devitt

Managing Director

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Matt Spain

Senior Managing Director

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Ryan Aceto

Deputy Head of Equity Capital Markets

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Chris Ankley

Managing Director

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Chad Ritchie

Managing Director

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Michael Cavanagh

Managing Director

Scott Ammaturo

Senior Managing Director, Head of ATM Trading

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John Stack

Senior Managing Director

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Jonathan Mitchell

Senior Managing Director

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Greg Presson

Senior Managing Director

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Ernie Dahlman

Managing Director

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Jeff Van Sinderen

Senior Research Analyst

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Josh Nichols

Senior Research Analyst

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Naved Khan

Managing Director

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Mike Crawford

Head of the Discovery Group

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Zach Cummins

Senior Research Analyst

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Craig Ellis

Director of Research

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Dave Kang

Senior Research Analyst

John Massocca

Senior Research Analyst

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Yuan Zhi

Managing Director

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Mayank Mamtani

Senior Managing Director, Group Head of Healthcare

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Kalpit Patel

Senior Research Analyst

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William Wood

Research Analyst

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Randy Binner

Managing Director

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Ryan Pfingst

Senior Research Analyst

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Matthew Key

Research Analyst

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Liam Burke

Managing Director

Griffin Boss

Research Analyst

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Anna Glaessgen

Senior Research Analyst

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Knut Grevle

Head of Equity Trading

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Dan Ondeck

Head of East Coast Sales

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Eric Rajewski

Head of Institutional Sales

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Madison El-Saadi

Research Analyst

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Frank Pigott

General Counsel

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Nick Giles

Senior Research Analyst

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Hal Goetsch

Managing Director

Investor Contact

[email protected]

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Anderson Schock

Research Analyst