 Senior Managing Director
& New England
Regional Office Head+1 617 385 0517
99 High Street
Boston, MA 02110
United States of America
| | David Holley is senior managing director of Kroll’s Boston office, responsible for the management and investigation of a variety of assignments throughout the New England region. David has been conducting complex investigations and providing litigation support since 1989. David has managed a wide variety of complex investigations and security-related matters, including environmental matters, proxy fights and hostile takeovers, computer forensics investigations, internal investigations, due diligence matters, patent infringement and theft of trade secret engagements, white-collar crime investigations, security and vulnerability assessments, personal protection details, and other sensitive investigations. Prior to joining Kroll in 2000, David was a senior investigator with the Boston office of Investigative Group International. There he managed a wide variety of investigative assignments and served as deputy director of the company’s Environmental Services Group. From November 1989 to August 1995, David worked in a litigation support capacity with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section. In that capacity, David identified and built the liability case against potentially responsible parties at several of New England’s most notorious Superfund sites, including New Bedford Harbor, the Charles George Landfill and the Davis Liquids Superfund Site. David has written several articles relating to corporate and aviation security, investigations and employee integrity issues. He has also lectured at Suffolk University School of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law and Boston College Law School on intellectual property protection, computer forensics and the use of electronic evidence.
Professional Experience- Corporate Internal Investigation. Conducted an investigation into the independence of a major financial institution’s outside audit firm in connection with non-audit services provided by the audit firm to clients of the financial firm.
- Corporate Internal Investigation. Conducted an independent investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding the submission of inaccurate data to a U.S. regulatory commission. Working for the company’s Board of Directors, David and others, interviewed more than forty current and former employees to establish the reasons for the submission. As a result of the investigation, the regulatory authority declined to conduct its own investigation, instead relying on the independent inquiry.
- Intellectual Property Protection and Investigation. Investigated the counterfeiting, distribution and sale of a controlled pharmaceutical. The three month investigation resulted in a referral to the FDA’s OCI. Ultimately, two participants pled guilty to the sale of counterfeit drugs and a third defendant was found guilty after a trial.
- Environmental Investigations. On behalf of a Fortune 500 company, David conducted an investigation to determine the potential source of a 14 mile plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) under his client’s property. After dozens of interviews, the review of thousands of pages of documents and discussions with scientists and regulatory authorities, David was able to demonstrate that the plume originated years earlier from another manufacturing facility several miles up gradient from his client’s property. The investigation spared David’s client more than $100 million in response and clean up costs.
- Private Client Services. Managed a two-year, private protection detail for the son of a wealthy foreign diplomat studying in the United States.
- Contests for Corporate Control. David was part of a large investigative team retained by the target of a $3 billion hostile takeover bid. The team developed information in an effort to prevent the takeover by the aggressor. After an extensive investigation, the investigative team was able to detail improper behavior in the chairman of the aggressor’s background, a history of layoffs after prior takeovers and other negative information about the aggressor convinced the aggressor to cease attempts at a takeover.
- Anti-Money Laundering Investigation. David conducted an internal inquiry on behalf of a major financial institution to understand the circumstances surrounding unreported Suspicious Activity Filings (“SARs”). David’s examination involved a reconciliation of thousands of potentially reportable incidents and recommendations on whether or not to file SARs in the questioned circumstances. Kroll also assisted with restructuring the institution’s anti-money laundering and corporate security departments to effectively monitor and investigate potential money laundering activity.
- Corporate Internal Investigation. On behalf of a Fortune 500 corporation, David conducted an investigation in support of the company’s decision to fire the operations manager at one of its facilities, who filed an age discrimination suit against the company. The investigation established that the former manager had rigged bids for capital improvements, used company equipment for his own personal use and gain, received kickbacks on equipment rentals, and tampered with his employees’ sales schedules to avoid paying them commissions thereby increasing his unit’s performance. The company successfully defended the age discrimination claim.
Education - Boston University, B.A.
- Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D.
Professional Affiliations- ASIS International
- Association for Corporate Growth
|
