Anderson is a retired Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (DOJ/OIG) who served as a Program Manager and Instructor at the Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy (IGCIA) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA. At the IGCIA, he was responsible for managing the Advanced Interviewing for Inspector General Investigators and Interviewing for Fraud Auditors programs.

Mr. Anderson’s law enforcement career began 40 years ago as a Forensic Chemist with the New York State Police after obtaining his master’s degree in forensics, working mainly toxicology and drug chemistry. He has served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation handling general crimes, foreign counterintelligence, drug investigations, and international terrorism. He also served in the same position with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Office of Investigation, working investigations involving fraud, abuse, and corruption regarding entities regulated by the NRC. Finally, he served as a Special Agent for the DOJ/OIG investigating allegations of fraud, abuse, corruption, or waste in federal agencies falling under the DOJ. These matters, as was the case at the NRC could be criminal or administrative in nature. Additionally, he has served as a Deputy Inspector General and Director of Internal Audit in the New York State Office of the Inspector General assigned to the Division of Military and Naval Affairs and other state agencies. Prior to this, he was assigned as a Confidential Investigator to the state IG office with responsibilities in all state agencies. He has also worked as a Director of Security in the corporate sector involved with supervising staff and executing programs within that entity. Mr. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from St. Lawrence University.  Additionally, he earned a Master of Science degree in forensic chemistry from Northeastern University. In 1983, he attended and graduated from the FBI Academy. Throughout his career in law enforcement he has attended training in interviewing, forensics, terrorism, and white-collar crime and fraud matters.

Liza Dates began her career as an Intelligence Analyst (IA) in 1993. She spent the last five years working Financial Crimes matters for FBI Albany Field Office, and currently sits in the FBI's Burlington, Vermont Resident Agency. Prior to that, she worked Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence matters for FBI Boston Field Office for ten years, and before that worked at the International Terrorism Operations Section at FBIHQ in the Washington, DC area. IA Dates also served active-duty time in the U.S. Army as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and Linguist

David Hinsdale currently serves as a Special Agent assigned to a cyber squad in the Albany Field Office. He investigates computer intrusions from both the criminal and national security perspective. His caseload touches a diverse range of cyber-criminal activities to include Initial Access Vendors, Ransomware, BECs, Cyberstalking/Harassment, Credit Card Skimming, and Cryptocurrency Fraud. He engages directly with victims for incident response and is an FBI authorized Digital Evidence Extraction Technician. He has been a Certified Public Accountant for ten years and has worked in the financial services sector in public accounting.

He has had the opportunity to participate in the FBI Accelerated Cyber Training Program where he earned multiple GIAC certifications and gained practical knowledge in the developing cyber threat landscape

Nelson has tried criminal and civil cases in state and federal court and currently is an Adjunct professor at Albany Law School where he teaches a course on the law and practice of conducting investigations. 

Nelson R. Sheingold serves as Counsel to the Comptroller of New York State, Thomas P. DiNapoli.  Nelson has been with the Office of the State Comptroller since 2011 and previously served as Deputy Comptroller and Counsel for Investigations.  In addition to serving as the chief legal officer of the agency which is comprised of over 2,800 employees across the State, Nelson heads Comptroller DiNapoli’s Division of Investigations which spearheads the Comptroller’s mission to safeguard public finances by investigating and uncovering fraud and the misappropriation of public funds.  The Division, composed of attorneys, investigators and forensic auditors experienced in complex fraud and public corruption examinations, works closely with Federal, State, and local law enforcement from across the State to root out corruption related to public funds, prosecute those who would defraud the taxpayers, and recover misappropriated public money.  The Division’s work has resulted in over 270 arrests and the ordered recovery of more than $82 million since the launch of Comptroller DiNapoli’s anti-corruption initiative. 

Prior to joining the State Comptroller’s office, Nelson served as Chief Counsel to the New York State Inspector General, a state agency charged with investigating fraud, corruption, waste and abuse in New York State Government.  In addition to providing legal guidance to the Inspector General and the Inspector General’s Office, Nelson supervised a statewide staff of attorneys, investigators, auditors, and analysts conducting fraud investigations across the State. 

Prior to his appointment as Chief Counsel to the State Inspector General, Nelson served six years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Bureau of New York Attorney State General’s Office where he represented the State, its officers and employees in federal and state court including representing the State in federal habeas corpus proceedings.   Nelson was appointed as a faculty member of the Attorney General’s Trial Advocacy program and was a 2006 recipient of the Louis J. Lefkowitz Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance on Behalf of the Attorney General.

Nelson previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York County where he prosecuted a vast array of crimes including serving as a member of the Domestic Violence Unit.  He was also appointed to the Special Investigations Bureau of the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor where, working with federal and state law enforcement authorities, he investigated and prosecuted large scale narcotics and money laundering enterprises.  Nelson also has been employed as an attorney with the New York Prosecutors Training Institute, the mutual assistance and continuing education wing of the New York State District Attorneys Association, where he assisted prosecutors from across the state, wrote appellate and lower court briefs and memoranda, and helped devise and run training programs for prosecutors in a variety of areas. 

Nelson is a 1994 graduate of Yale Law School.  He received his undergraduate degree in 1991 from the University of Delaware. 

Dr. Michael Skiba, also known as Dr. Fraud ®, is an international consultant/expert on financial crime and has been referred to as one of the top crime fighters in the world. He worked in the fraud industry for 29 years (investigator, analyst, and Vice President International Counter Fraud) and for the last seven years has worked for the Dr. Fraud Training Group (a company he founded) in every international region (96 countries and counting), as a consultant, trainer, and speaker on fraud. International governments, private companies, and colleges call upon him to speak and offer training and consultation on his global expertise including recent engagements in South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia, and the Nordics.

He has also been a professor for 18 years and is currently the Department Chair at  Colorado State University Global where he oversees the Criminal Justice Department  including specializations in Fraud, Financial Crime, and Cybercrime. He holds an MBA and a PhD with a research focus on economic crime. He is highly sought after in the media and can be seen weekly in many media outlets including NBC, CBS, FOX, Bloomberg,  SiriusXM radio and his live talk show on KRDO Colorado named “Fraud Fireside Chat”. He is a staff instructor for the United Nations, INTERPOl, FBI and ATF. He is an accomplished author that has published over 300 articles, including a groundbreaking book entitled “The Psychology of Fraud. He is also the host of DFTV, a TV series focused on investigating international scams. www.drfraud.org.