Stuart Witchell leads BRG’s Global Investigations + Strategic Intelligence practice in Asia-Pacific (APAC) and is co-leader of BRG’s APAC region.
He has significant experience in the conduct of sophisticated business intelligence and reputational due diligence assignments in Asia and globally; major fraud and corruption investigations including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); in multijurisdictional asset searches; in discreet strategies to assist with hostile takeovers; in provision of evidence for litigation support, including anti-dumping cases; in consulting on brand protection and product counterfeiting issues in emerging markets; and in crisis contingency planning and response.
Mr. Witchell is a founding member of International Risk Ltd, which was acquired by FTI Consulting in 2006. Before moving to Hong Kong, he was the Japan representative of a global business advisory firm, a position he held for eight years. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the investigations, business intelligence, and risk mitigation industry in Asia and the former Soviet Bloc, including establishing a risk advisory division for a Big Four accounting firm in Japan; as well as seventeen years of experience as a diplomat in the British Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.