Kroll Expands Toronto Presence with Three Senior Hires

Top professionals enhance world-renowned investigative and risk and compliance capabilities

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2011 – Kroll, the world’s leading risk consulting company, today announced three senior hires in its Toronto office, expanding the company’s presence in Canada. Peter McFarlane and Jennie Chan have joined the firm’s Business Intelligence and Investigations practice as managing directors. Deborah Gold has joined as a managing director with Kroll’s Risk & Compliance group.

McFarlane and Chan will lead a team of financial investigators based in Toronto. The team will conduct complex fraud and internal investigations for clients throughout the region.  McFarlane and Chan will work closely with Kroll’s global financial investigations team located in New York, London, Hong Kong, Miami, Philadelphia, Singapore and Dubai.

Gold will lead Kroll’s Risk and Compliance business in Canada.  The group provides a range of due diligence offerings specifically designed to satisfy know-your-customer and third party agent/vendor screenings required under various governments’ anti-money laundering and anti-corruption regulatory regimes, and utilizes people, process and technology to deliver solutions in a compliance auditable, time- and cost-effective way.

“Canada is an important part of Kroll’s North American and global business strategy,” said President and CEO of Kroll J. Philip Casey.  “Peter, Jennie and their team will enable us to bring our experience and skills in computer forensics, forensic accounting, internal and external investigations together to better serve Canadian clients.  Deborah and the Risk & Compliance team will assist Kroll’s Canadian clients in managing their escalating regulatory and compliance requirements with technology enabled solutions.” 

McFarlane, and Chan join Kroll from Navigant Consulting.  McFarlane is a CAŸIFA and has more than 20 years of experience leading financial investigations. He previously spent seven years with Kroll in Toronto, most recently serving as a managing director, after seven years with a boutique investigative and forensic accounting firm.  Prior to that, he worked at a Big Four accounting firm in Canada and the United Kingdom.  Chan also is a CAŸIFA with more than 15 years of experience conducting financial investigations for public and private corporations, governments and regulatory and law enforcement agencies.  She previously spent seven years with Kroll in its Toronto and Vancouver offices after working with a boutique investigative and forensic accounting firm.  She began her career at a Big Four accounting firm in Canada. 

Gold also joins Kroll from Navigant Consulting, where she led Toronto’s Business Intelligence and Research group.  She brings more than 15 years of investigative experience to her new role leading the Risk & Compliance business in Canada.  She previously spent seven years at Kroll in its Toronto office.  Prior to that, she worked at a boutique investigative and forensic accounting firm and was a lawyer in private practice.

Kroll, the world's leading risk consulting company, provides a broad range of investigative, intelligence, financial, security and technology services to help clients reduce risks, solve problems and capitalize on opportunities. Headquartered in New York with offices in 52 cities in 29 countries, Kroll has a multidisciplinary team of approximately 2,800 employees and serves a global clientele of law firms, financial institutions, corporations, non-profit institutions, government agencies, and individuals. Kroll is an Altegrity company.