LFF Information

London Fraud Forum (LFF)

Patron:

Lord John Stevens, KStJ, QPM, DL, LLD, Hon DCL, Mphil, CIMgt, FRSA

Lord Stevens served for 42 years in the Police Service which culminated in his appointment as Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police from February 2000 until February 2005. During his career, he has been commended on 27 occasions for outstanding detective ability or courage. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service in 1991 and awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1992. He was knighted in Her Majesty's New Year Honours 2000. He was made Deputy Lieutenant of London in 2001 and a Knight of St John in 2002.

On 24th May 2005 he was ennobled to the House of Lords as Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington. In November 2006 he was made Deputy Lieutenant of Northumbria. He is Chairman of The Border Security Advisory Committee, and sits on The Olympic Oversight Committee. He is Chairman of Interpol Strategic Planning Committee. In July 2007 he was appointed the Prime Minister's Senior Advisor on International Security.

ALAN DAY                                                                                               

Senior Audit & Investigations Manager - Fraud & Security
Transport for London and Chair, London Fraud Forum

Alan is the Senior Audit & Investigations Manager - Fraud & Security at Transport for London.  He is responsible for the awareness, prevention, detection and investigation of serious fraud throughout the TfL organisation.

Prior to joining TfL, Alan was a career soldier for 29 years.  He has a BA (Hons) in Economics & Politics, and a MA in Security Management. 

Alan is currently on the Steering Group of the London Public Sector Counter Fraud Partnership and is the Chair of the London Fraud Forum.

CHRIS LAMSDELL  

Vice-Chair, London Fraud Forum

Chris is the Fraud Manager for Modern Housing Solutions a joint venture company between Carillon, Atkins and Enterprise.

Previously Chris has served in the police service for 30 years, the majority of this being with the Metropolitan Police. He finished his service as a Detective Inspector at the Economic and Serious Crime Directorate (SCD6) where he headed the Sterling Prevention Unit, the Intelligence Unit and the SARS (Suspicious Activity Reports) Unit.  He has investigated fraud for 20 years during which he investigated a number of significant enquires.  He sat on a number of multi-agency partnerships such as the Identity Fraud Victims Support Centre steering group and Identity Fraud Consumer Awareness Group.  He is currently the vice-chair of the London Fraud Forum and a member of the Fraud Advisory Panel.

SANDRA KILLION   

Membership Secretary , London Fraud Forum

Sandra, until recently was the Fraud Liaison Manager for Dun & Bradstreet who are a leading source of providing business information.  Sandra worked for D&B for nearly 40 years and during that time worked in a variety of roles including Data Operations, Customer Services, Global Sales and Finance.  For the past 30 years Sandra had been the liaison contact for law enforcement agencies and held the position of Fraud Liaison Manager for over 13 years.  Since taking early retirement from D&B, Sandra remains active in a voluntary capacity on the board of the London Fraud Forum and on the steering group of the Eastern Fraud Forum..

ROBERT BROOKER     

Regional Investigations Manager - Bentley Jennison

Robert has worked for Bentley Jennison as a Regional Investigations Manager since 2004.  Robert is responsible for a team of investigators and support staff working on various criminal, civil and disciplinary investigations, undertaking confidential financial and non-financial investigations into fraud and corruption by internal and/or eternal parties.  He provides assistance and advice in setting up fraud policies, response plans, Whistle-blowing and surveillance procedures, as well as providing fraud/corporate security training and awareness to a wide variety of clients in the public and private sectors, as well as Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Government Agencies.

JACK WRAITH - MBE    

Chief Executive Officer and Director of The Telecommunications United Kingdom Fraud Forum (TUFF)

Jack is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of The Telecommunications United Kingdom Fraud Forum (TUFF) and also Chair and Executive Secretary of The Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum (MICAF). Prior to joining the industry Jack operated as an independent consultant providing support to a four nations telecommunications grouping as well as providing input to a number of international communications committees based in Brussels. Jack also acts as Chair to a number of Fraud and Crime related committees, within the UK, including Joint Chairmanship of the ACPO Telecommunications Data Communications Group. He is a regular presenter at telecommunication conferences as well as industry spokesman both on UK television and radio.  Jack was appointed as a Member of The British Empire in 1974.

NEIL TRANTUM           

Director - Avertis Group Ltd

Neil is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner with over 20 years experience particularly in the Financial Services Industry. He trained in London with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, now PricewaterhouseCoopers. Whilst there he was seconded to the SFO to work on the BCCI investigation before spending four years with the Banking Regulator in the newly formed Special Investigations Unit. During this time he played a key role in the formal enquiry into Nick Leeson's unauthorised trading which led to the collapse of Barings. From 1998 he was employed by NatWest/The Royal Bank of Scotland in various roles in the financial crime and intelligence arena. Responsibilities included heading up the Group's fraud, investigations and anti-money laundering functions. In addition he has had an active role within the banking and payments industry and built a reputation as a key influencer and driver of change. He has represented The Royal Bank of Scotland Group and the Payments Industry on numerous committees and was chairman of the APACS Fraud Intelligence Sharing Strategy Group until he left the Royal Bank of Scotland at the end of June 2007. He is now a Director of Avertis Group Ltd, a group of companies that offer investigation and risk consulting services.

NIGEL MAWER            

Detective Chief Superintendent

Nigel was appointed as the Head of the Economic and Specialist Crime Unit at  New Scotland Yard in January 2004. He has one of the most varied commands in  the Metropolitan Police Service where he has responsibility for the investigation of Public and Private Sector Fraud, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery, Human Trafficking, E Crime, Organised Vehicle Crime, Prison Corruption, Arts and Antiques crime and conducting Extradition and International Enquiries for other countries. He devised ‘Sterling', the MPS strategy to combat economic crime in London. He has the lead for ‘Payback', which is pursuing the assets of middle tier criminals, ‘Maxim' the MPS Human Trafficking Strategy and for developing the national E Crime Strategy.
He has been a Detective since 1981 working in various parts of London. From 1996 to 2001 he was seconded to the National Crime Squad where he led operations targeting organised criminals and ran an operational branch. During this time he conducted a 3 month national review of the NCS operational branch structure and for the last 18 months of this secondment he worked on a sensitive enquiry in Northern Ireland. As a Detective Superintendent he ran the murder investigation teams in West London.
In 2001 he achieved an MA in Individual and Organisational Development. 

JOHN BAKER              

Head of Business Integrity and Investigation Services - RSM Tenon

John Baker has been involved in countering fraud for over 15 years.  John sits on the Advisory Panel of Portsmouth University's Centre for Counter Fraud Studies and on the Editorial Board for the ‘Fraud Intelligence' magazine.  Until recently he was an Executive Member of the Institute of Counter Fraud Specialists.  Until December 2007, John was the Project Lead for the Attorney General's Fraud Review Fraud Loss Measurement Unit's Working Group and prior to this he was the Vice Chair of a Parliamentary data-sharing & identity fraud group.  John has made considerable contributions to a number of key documents including the CIPFA ‘Taking Action to Reduce Fraud' and has written a number of articles on fraud for ‘Public Finance', ‘Fraud Intelligence', ‘Accounting' etc.  John has worked in a number of key roles in RSM Tenon, KPMG Forensic, NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service, CIPFA and DWP. 

Dai Prichard               

Director of Wilson James Security Management;  Keypoint Services Ltd                                                                                         

Formerly an officer in the Welsh Guards and with Special Forces, 

Dai has owned and directed companies in the security and investigations field since 1987.   He is a director of Wilson James Security Management;  KeypointServices Ltd; and other specialist security service providers. Pro  bono,  Dai is chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce's security group,  and a director of  the board of the Chamber 2003  - 09. He is a director of the National Security Inspectorate (certification body - chair Sir Francis Richards);  a director of Skills for Security (chair Lord Stevens);  Chairman of the Risk and Security Management Forum 2005 - 07; Fellow of the Security Institute,  and a director of the Institute 2005 - 09;  Freeman of the Company of Security Professionals;  a member of  the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) and a Certified Protection Professional (by ASIS examination);  a member of British Standards Institutes cttees writing British Standards for the security field.

LFF Honorary Members

Chair, Fraud Advisory Panel (UK)

Rosalind Wright was called to the Bar in 1964 and she has since pursued a career in financial services regulation, fraud prosecution, and prevention. Rosalind is also Chair of the Supervisory Committee of OLAF, (the European anti-fraud Office), a member of the Insolvency Group Steering Board and of the Department of Trade and Industry Legal Services Group Board and Vice-Chair and trustee of the Jewish Association for Business Ethics. She was formerly Director of the Serious Fraud Office (1997 - 2003), a non-executive director of the Office of Fair Trading (2003 - 2007) and General Counsel, Head of Prosecutions and Director of Policy, Securities and Futures Authority (SFA) (1987 - 1997). She was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2001 New Year Honours List and was awarded honorary silk in October 2006.  

Joint Head of Fraud & Regulatory, Peters & Peters
Visiting Professor of Law at Kingston University

Monty has been with Peters & Peters throughout his legal career, which spans over 40 years. Senior Partner until April 2005, he now remains with the firm as full-time consultant and joint head of Fraud & Regulatory Dept. He is widely acknowledged as one of the UK's leading fraud lawyers. When not practising, he publishes widely and travels the world lecturing and training governmental and commercial organisations on numerous aspects of fraud. Monty was the founder of the Business Crime Committee of the IBA and is immediate past Chair of its Anti Corruption Working Group. He is a Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel, Honorary Solicitor to the Howard League for Penal Reform and visiting Professor Law at Kingston University.

23 Essex Court, London
Visiting Professor of Law at London School of Economics (Law Department)

Jonathan is a practising barrister specialising in white collar crime and regulatory cases. He is listed as one of the UK's leading practising barristers in "Who's Who in the Law" (Legal 500) for 2007. Prior to taking Silk Jonathan was Standing Counsel (Criminal) to the Inland Revenue at the Central Criminal Court and London Crown Courts for 12 years. Jonathan also holds a visiting professor appointment at the London School of Economics (Law Department) where he lectures on corporate and financial crime. Co-author of "The Law of Investor Protection" as well as many articles and papers, Jonathan is a legal panel member of the Accountancy Investigation and Disciplinary Board. Between 2003 and 2006 Jonathan was a member of the Assets Recovery Agency Steering Group. He is presently a member of the International Bar Association's Groups on the Implementation of the 3rd EC Anti-Money Laundering Directive and Industrial Espionage. Jonathan is a Trustee Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel and recently chaired the Special Project Group on Fraud Investigation and Prosecution. 

Director, Forensic Accounting (eCrime & Fraud)

Stephen is a director at Horwath Clarke Whitehill recently joining the Forensic Accounting team as an eCrime and fraud awareness expert.

He recently headed up the Fraud & Forensics Group at a Top 25 firm of accountants, leading an expert body advising clients on prevention, detection and recovery of fraudulent assets, working closely with the police, HMRC and private sector.

Stephen is a Trustee Director of the ICAEW Fraud Advisory Panel and chairs the Cybercrime Working Group with colleagues from SOCA, Home Office and the private sector.
Stephen chaired the FAP charity fraud research project for England & Wales and edited the resulting report - "A Breach of Trust".  He is also an Associate of the ACFE, a member of the North East and Eastern Fraud Forum and an honorary member on the steering committee of the London Fraud Forum.

Stephen specialises in e-crime and fraud with 10 years experience in internet fraud awareness, identity theft, not-for-profit fraud and risk management.   He is a certified practitioner (CIIP) for ISO27001 and performs IT and system reviews for a number of clients and works on guides to fraud detection and prevention for many small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and charities.  He has also developed and delivered a series of ‘fraud prevention' and ‘e-fraud' courses aimed at training UK police forces, private sector fraud units and major world banks.  Stephen has published a book on Corporate Fraud: Prevention & Detection by Bloomsbury Professional with practical advice on all aspects of fraud and how to prevent it with the royalties going to Victim Support.

He lectures widely on fraud awareness particularly e-crime and fraud in the not-for-profit sector speaking regularly at conferences for the Association for Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP), Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), Chartered Institute for Management Accounts (CIMA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and CCH (Wolters Kluwer (UK) Limited). Stephen has just completed writing a new course with the City of London Police on Covert Internet Investigations and Open Source Intelligence.

Stephen is an affiliate of the Institute of IT Trainers and has qualified as a TAP training consultant.  He has written in several well known publications including The Sunday Times, Accountancy Magazine, FS Focus, Third Sector, Charity Finance, and the Solicitors Journal and commented on Radio 5 and the BBC's Real Story.  Stephen has contributed to many fraud and risk management publications including CIMA's "Fraud Risk Management: A Guide to Good Practice