Investigative Analytics Expert

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Jason is a senior investigative analytics and data strategy leader with 19 years of experience advising law firms, regulators, boards of directors, audit committees, and Fortune 500 companies on complex disputes, regulatory enforcement matters, financial investigations, and enterprise risk issues. Jason specializes in designing and leading analytics-driven solutions for high-stakes, data-intensive matters involving structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across global jurisdictions. Jason has deep expertise in investigative analytics, AI-enabled analytics methodologies, data governance, graph and blockchain analytics, cloud-based analytics environments, data visualization, and evidentiary reporting supporting litigation and regulatory proceedings. He is experienced in developing defensible analytics frameworks and scalable investigative workflows for matters involving hundreds of billions of transactional records, large-scale unstructured text datasets, complex enterprise systems, and emerging digital assets. Throughout his career, Jason has led multidisciplinary teams comprised of data scientists, forensic accountants, technologists, legal stakeholders, and investigative consultants in matters involving fraud, corruption, sanctions compliance, securities litigation, consumer protection matters, procurement fraud, data misuse allegations, and financial crimes investigations. Prior to joining GlassRatner, Jason served as the global leader of the Analytics segment within the Risk, Investigations & Analytics practice at Charles River Associates. In this role, he oversaw analytics-driven investigations and disputes. He also led business development initiatives focused on law firm and corporate outreach, cross-functional collaboration, and the expansion of analytics capabilities across service lines. Specialties include the following: > Forensic Analytics > Fraud Investigations > Internal Investigations > Litigation Support > White Collar Crime > Data Acquisition > Data Standardization > Advanced Data Analytics > Data Visualization > Damages & Expert Witness Services > Economic Consulting Services > Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Case Examples > Assisted multiple pharmacy defendants in several state and municipal opioid-related matters involving the evaluation of historical damages and multi-billion dollar abatement costs put forward by plaintiffs’ experts. Jason and a multidisciplinary team of forensic accountants, investigative research analysts, and economists performed independent forensic audits of the accuracy and completeness of proposed abatement cost components and the thousands of inputs and outputs underlying complex economic models used to estimate abatement periods and projected costs. The analyses required evaluation of both the functional relationships among the underlying data points and the viability of the economic models themselves, including whether the models produced logically and definitionally supportable results. The reviews additionally involved analysis of disparate datasets and public health sources, including ARCOS, TEDS, NSDUH, and CDC Wonder, as well as subsequent iterations of the models developed by plaintiffs’ experts in response to deficiencies identified during the review. > Led a forensic investigation to quantify amounts misappropriated by management of a transportation and logistics company. Executed analysis of the company’s electronic accounting database to highlight both amounts transacted between the company and the conflicted customers and vendors as well as the amounts paid to or for the benefit of certain members of management. Findings from the investigation were submitted to Assistant US Attorney representing the Southern District of New York.