The Forensic CPA Society

Darrin Carmichael is a seasoned Corporate Security and Operational Risk professional with more than three decades’ experience in fraud prevention, financial crime investigation, and risk management. A Certified Fraud Examiner, he has strengthened the security and anti-fraud posture of leading financial institutions, developing frameworks and training programs that enhance detection, reporting, and response to complex financial crimes.

He also plays a key regional role in combating illicit trade and human trafficking through his long-standing leadership within Crime Stoppers Trinidad & Tobago and the wider Crime Stoppers Caribbean, Bermuda & Latin America network. In these roles, Darrin collaborates with law enforcement, border security, and community intelligence partners to disrupt trafficking networks, strengthen public engagement, and promote safer communities. His contributions to national public safety have been recognized with the Hummingbird Medal (Gold) for distinguished service.

Nicholas has over 20 years’ experience working at various organizations such as KPMG, AT&T, Microsoft, Apple, University of the West Indies (UWI), UWI-ROYTEC and Deposit Insurance Corporation (DIC) to name a few. He holds degrees include a Master’s in Information Technology from Georgia Southern University (GSU) and a Bachelor’s in Communications from Florida Memorial University (FMU) in the USA.

Additionally, Nicholas is a Certified IT Auditor (ISO 27001 Lead Auditor credential), a Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), an Associate Member of The Business Continuity Institute (AMBCI) and possesses ITIL V3 certification.

Akerele is an experienced accounting and finance professional with over 19 years of practice in Strategic Financial Reporting, Budget & Performance Management, Tax Legislation & Reporting, Corporate Reporting, Financial Planning, Analysis, and Due Diligence Management, With extensive experience in Sustainability and Accountability Reporting, innovation oversight, and strategic management across areas such as entity strategy planning, resource and manpower planning, M&A processes, settlement negotiations, strategic tax management, and capital/liquidity risk reporting.

Academically, he holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting & Finance (University of London), a Bachelor’s in Accounting & Finance (Oxford Brookes University), and I maintain professional designations as a CPA, CGA, FCCA, and FCA in good standing.

Dr. Patrick A. Linton is an internationally trained cyber security and digital forensics expert with more than three decades of operational, academic, and leadership experience. He serves as Director of Cyber Investigations and Risk Management at the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency in Jamaica, where he leads national-level cybercrime investigations, digital forensic operations, and cyber risk programmes.

His career spans over thirty-five years in law enforcement, with deep specialisation in cyber forensics, cybercrime investigation, threat intelligence, and organisational cyber risk management. He has led complex digital investigations, supervised high-impact forensic examinations, authored court-ready forensic reports, and provided expert testimony in matters involving cybercrime, fraud, and technology-enabled offences.

Academically, Dr. Linton holds a PhD in Cyber Security and advanced degrees in Cyber Security and Big Data and Business Intelligence. He has completed postgraduate studies in cyber security at the University of Texas at Austin and continues advanced doctoral research in Information Technology. He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Technology Jamaica and the Caribbean Maritime University, where he teaches advanced courses in forensic computing, digital forensics, ethical hacking, and network defence.

Mr. Grey is a sought-after speaker at global conferences and training events on asset tracing, recovery, and forensic accounting. His advisory work has contributed to the establishment of asset recovery agencies in the Caribbean and East Africa, and his consulting engagements span the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He has also advised five of the world’s leading international investigative and audit firms.

Mr. Brian Horne is a highly experienced Legal and Asset Recovery Specialist with over forty years of professional experience in the prosecution and investigation of confiscation and proceeds of crime matters. His expertise spans cross-border crime and mutual legal assistance, extradition, money laundering offences, serious fraud, firearms offences, drug trafficking, and human trafficking offences.

Mr. Horne is a Barrister-at-Law and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London. He previously served as a Crown Advocate with the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales, where he specialized in extradition and the confiscation of criminal proceeds involving recoverable assets valued at £100,000 and above. In this role, he advised Crown Prosecutors and senior police officers on complex money laundering investigations, international financial inquiries, and cross-border asset recovery. He also drafted Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Letters of Request to foreign jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, Spain, Japan, Colombia, India, Jamaica, and France.

Anika is a seasoned fraud investigation professional with over 20 years of combined experience in the fields of internal audit and fraud investigation. She holds a Master of Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, a bachelor’s degree in management with minors in Finance and Sociology, and a Diploma in Certified Forensic and Fraud Detection.

She is known for her passion for conducting high-value investigations and upholding the highest standards of investigative documentation and reporting. Her professional development also includes specialized training in Forensic Document Examination, Fraud Report Writing, Fraud Risk Management, and Workplace Investigations.

Dr Perry Stanislas is an international policing and security specialist with over 40 years’ experience, starting his career as a security and intelligence officer for a major Pan African political organisation before joining Bedfordshire Police. He is Programme Director for Postgraduate policing and security studies at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) and its international and globalisation School Lead where he is responsible for developing strategies across the policing, law, forensic sciences, criminology, psychology and politics departments with partner institutions abroad. Prior to taking this role, he was the Programme Director of the MSc in Police Science run jointly with the Netherlands Police Academy. Perry has decades of experience in police and law enforcement training, professional development, and accreditation. His book International Perspectives on Police Education was translated into Turkish to train criminal justice professionals.

Dr Stanislas teaches policing and security matters in Sub Saharan Africa and the English-speaking Caribbean and particularly organised crime, financial crime and corruption, international money laundering, transnational policing inter alia. He has served as an expert witness for US and Canadian courts, and as a trainer and consultant for crime prevention programmes run by the World Bank in East Africa. Prior to returning to the UK in 2021 Dr Stanislas was a professor of policing and security at Rabdan Academy Abu Dhabu.

Dr Stanislas is the co-author of Public Corruption, Regional, and National Perspectives on Procurement Fraud and numerous other publications. Perry is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained his PhD in 2007.