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Darrell D. Dorrell, Principal
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Greg Gadawski is a partner of financialforensics®. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). He is a member of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants (OSCPA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA).
Mr. Gadawski has conducted a myriad of complex fraud investigations on behalf of both victims and suspects. These investigations have ranged from small employee thefts to multi-million dollar frauds. In addition to conducting the investigations, Mr. Gadawski has assisted the victims with identification of assets and recovery of losses from fraud.
He has also served as forensic accountant to the receiver in multiple receiverships. These receiverships are typically the result of some type of securities fraud and/or ponzi scheme. As forensic accountant to the receiver, Mr. Gadawski has provided transaction analysis, asset tracing, identification and investigation of targets for third party litigation, solvency analysis, testimony in civil and criminal matters and other services for the benefit of the receivership estate.
Mr. Gadawski has served as an expert witness/consultant in a variety of complex litigation matters including; breach of contract, business valuation, alter ego, lost profits, marital dissolution, personal injury, wrongful death, intellectual property infringement, fraudulent conveyance, solvency, and others. His expertise encompasses a wide scope of industries including; professional service organizations, brokerages, financial services, construction, retail, timber, utilities, municipalities, not-for-profits, manufacturing and others.
He has authored and co-authored several forensic accounting and litigation consulting related articles. Mr. Gadawski co-authored three United States Attorney’s Bulletins with Mr. Dorrell. Additionally, Mr. Gadawski co-authored the book "Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge" ISBN-13: 978-0470880852, published this year by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
He has presented continuing education courses (both CPE and CLE) on forensic accounting, financial statement analysis, fraud investigation and litigation related topics. Mr. Gadawski is also an instructor for the Forensic Accounting Academy. Through the academy, he has instructed hundreds of attorneys, forensics accountants, law enforcement agents, government employees and other practitioners regarding the Forensic Accounting/Investigation Methodology© (FA/IM) along with a myriad of forensic accounting tools and techniques. In 2010, Mr. Gadawski was NACVA’s Instructor of the Year for achieving the highest scores on participant evaluations. He subsequently received NACVA’s Circle of Light Award in 2011, the highest honor NACVA bestows on its instructors.
Curriculum vitae available upon request.
Darrell D. Dorrell is a founding partner of financialforensics®, a boutique forensic accounting practice in Lake Oswego, OR. He practices in civil and criminal matters throughout the US and has served as an expert witness/consultant in 500+/- matters; additional assignments exceed 1,000+/-. They include alter ego, anti-trust, bankruptcy, breach of contract, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, estate/gift taxes, family law, financial forensics, forensic accounting, fraud, fraudulent conveyance/transfer intellectual property, lost profits, money laundering, patent infringement, solvency/insolvency, trademark, trade dress, and trade secrets, among others.
Darrell has published more than 85 articles in the American Journal of Family Law, Business Appraisal Practice, CPA Journal, Financial Valuation and Litigation Expert, Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, Litigation Counselor, National Litigation Consultants Review, Valuation Examiner, RIA’s Valuation Strategies, and the United States Attorneys’ Bulletin. Additionally, he has been cited in Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Business Week, IR Magazine, the Portland Oregonian, the Practical Accountant, “Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives,” a New York Times best-seller, “The Grapes of Math,” by a U.K. based author, “The Forensic Accounting Deskbook, 2nd” published by the ABA, and authored the forensic accounting chapter in “Valuation for Dummies.” Also he has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR) WYNC “RadioLab,” the “Small Business Television” network, the “First Business News Network Television” and www.forensicweek.com on YouTube.
His financial forensics, forensic accounting, investigative, litigation, valuation, fraud, and related expertise is extensive. Most significantly, he developed the Forensic Accounting/Investigation Methodology© (FA/IM©), and he co-authored for the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) the March 2005, Vol. 53 No. 2 issue, i.e. Financial Forensics I - Counterterrorism: Conventional Tools for Unconventional Warfare, and the May 2005 Vol. 53 No. 3 issue Financial Forensics II - Forensic Accounting: Counterterrorism Tactical Weaponry. The March 2012, Vol. 60 No.2 issue, i.e. Financial Intelligence: People and Money Techniques to Prosecute Fraud, Corruption, and Earnings Manipulation was released in 2012. All three issues are available via the public site: http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room. His book, "Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge" ISBN-13: 978-0470880852 - co-authored with Gregory A. Gadawski - was released in 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
A nationally recognized speaker and author, Darrell has delivered more than 100 training sessions on forensic accounting-related topics during the last 5 years. His deliveries span 31 states (including 19 state CPA societies), Puerto Rico and Canada. He has provided training to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), American Bar Association, Bankruptcy Bar Association, Oregon Bar Association, Washington Bar Association, American Society of Appraisers (ASA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, Institute of Management Accountants, International Law Enforcement Auditors Association, SEAK, CPAA International, Inc., AGN, Inc., and Turnaround Management Association.
Curriculum vitae available upon request.
