PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Ed Herbst joined RKA Worldwide as a Consulting Director.

Prior, he founded Bison Forensics to provide financial, forensic and internal investigation services to clients.  Ed served as a Managing Director at EY for over eleven years, and prior to EY he was an FBI Special Agent for more than 26 years, leading both national security programs and criminal investigations.

Ed focuses on client service in the areas of fraud and forensic investigation, fraud mitigation and compliance strategies to help both ensure the security of client assets and to foster the strength of their operations, reputation, and brand.

During his prior FBI service he rose to the Senior Executive Service as the Director of the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF).  He also led field Terrorism, Cyber and Intelligence branches, and has 20 years of experience leading criminal investigations specializing in White Collar Crime, including corruption and sophisticated financial crimes.

As the Director of the FTTTF, Ed led the task force to focus on actionable intelligence by analyzing data to build cases on suspected terrorist activity. Throughout his FBI career, his investigations and guidance drove cases to successful outcomes, including insider threat cases: one that included the theft of special nuclear material and another resulted in preventing the transfer of technology valued at over $500 million.

He led a national consumer fraud initiative that resulted in charges against over 1000 subjects and was the basis of Congressional action to change the sentencing guidelines on financial crimes against the elderly. He consistently demonstrated proven results through case convictions for money laundering and forfeiture; corruption; health care, insurance, bankruptcy, securities and financial institution frauds.