Douglas Small
Managing Director / CPA CFF CFE
Douglas Small has over twenty-six years of experience in connection with fraud investigations, forensic accounting, and anti-corruption issues. He principally advises clients in all aspects of internal corporate fraud investigations, forensic accounting matters, and compliance with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and white-collar criminal matters.
Mr. Small has consulted with law firms and global companies since 2008 on financial fraud, anti-corruption, and forensic accounting investigations throughout the world. He spent fourteen years as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he conducted numerous complex white-collar criminal investigations including corporate, healthcare and financial institution fraud, money laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud, and public corruption.
Many of these investigative matters required extensive forensic accounting expertise and related analyses of financial records to include data analytics of accounting data, asset-tracing, and funds-flow analysis. During his FBI career, Mr. Small also was involved in all phases of the crisis management continuum, including executive protection, tactical response, field training exercises, and firearms and tactical training.
Throughout his career, Mr. Small has led and conducted investigations both domestically and internationally in Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He has also worked closely with federal prosecutors and has been called upon frequently to provide testimony in both criminal trials and grand juries. In addition, he served as a vice president of finance of a startup information technology company in the multifamily housing sector; and has six years of experience auditing joint venture and contract vendor agreements with a major oil and gas company, as well as audit experience with a Big Four accounting firm.
Mr. Small is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified in Financial Forensics. Mr. Small obtained an B.S. in Accounting from Missouri Valley College and his MBA from Ball State University.