Career

Sudhir Gidwani, CFE

Sudhir Gidwani, CFE, says in 1984 he first found tremendous joy piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of unearthing fraud during his investigation of the collapse of a major local bank in Hong Kong. “As my experience in fraud and corruption investigations developed, I became more passionate about what I was doing,” he says.

Mark Lee Greenblatt, CFE

Mark Lee Greenblatt, CFE, says he’s learned the importance of being fair, independent and objective — as an individual and as a leader within his organization. “In the inspector general community, we have a special responsibility as the independent oversight mechanism within our departments, and I’ve learned that we can be effective only if we operate with integrity,” says Greenblatt, inspector general at the U.S. Department of Interior.

Win, win, win in fraud-case competition

Drexel University’s Fraud and Internal Control Case Competition (FIC3) lifts anti-fraud concepts off textbook pages and ingrains them into students’ lives. Learn how to help higher-ed institutions develop similar competitions.

Siddharth Kher, CFE

Siddharth Kher, CFE, first learned about the anti-fraud profession when he was working at Amazon. His curiosity piqued when he searched the internet for anti-fraud specialization courses and discovered the ACFE.

Happy 80th birthday to the term ‘white-collar crime’

You might not know it, but today is an important day for you. On Dec. 27, 1939 — 80 years ago — criminologist Dr. Edwin Sutherland, while speaking to the American Sociological Society, coined “white-collar crime” and placed the cornerstone in the foundation for the fraud examination profession.

Rachel Jolicoeur, CFE

Trust your instincts, keep digging, look for patterns and know how to navigate technology to find anomalies. These are the skills Rachel Jolicoeur, CFE, has learned over the course of her career.

Influencer bootcamp

Most people don’t like being stuck in obscurity in their profession. They want recognition and compensation for their value. Here’s how to build a reputation or professional brand as an influencer in your anti-fraud field.

Bernardin Assiene, CFE

Bernardin Assiene, CFE, found his passion for fighting fraud when he was tasked to investigate a financial fraud in the fuel distribution network at a major multinational American oil company in 1998. “The experience I gained and the lessons I learned shaped the rest of my career,” he says.

Demystifying networking

Like it or not, networking is key to professional success. Unfortunately, keeping our heads down and doing great work just isn’t enough to further our careers. Here are tips from a wise introvert on how to build your network.

Transforming corporate cultures by placing CFEs in top echelons

During an interview at the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, the Board of Regents opined on how to change corporate cultures, new corporate compliance guidance, ethics vs. profits and more.

Norman DeBoer, CFE

The ACFE presented Norman DeBoer, CFE, the Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year award at the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in June. DeBoer, a detective with the Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) Regional Police Service for 29 years, completed in 2018 the precedent-setting $12 million financial advisor fraud case of Daniel P. Reeve, who received a 14-year prison sentence.

Stepping up and standing out

When ACFE Founder and Chairman Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, stepped up to the podium at the 30th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference in Austin in June, the ACFE’s accumulated history accompanied him. As he accepted his induction into the ACFE Hall of Fame, he received it as a representative of the thousands who, but for his foresight, probably never would’ve received fraud examination education and skills.