Fraud and Forensic Investigation Masterclass (ROI/NI)

Peadar Hogan

Peadar Hogan, Director of Forensic and Investigation Services with Interpath Advisory Ireland. Peadar is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He spent 17 years employed in Ireland as a law enforcement forensic accountant, and 3 years as investigative accountant with the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE). He has considerable experience in conducting financial crime related investigations, preparing expert reports and advising Counsel in economic crime, proceeds of crime, asset tracing, money laundering, organised crime, and other criminal financial investigations. He has given expert oral evidence and was cross examined in numerous successful civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions. He has extensive experience in managing corporate investigations which address financial misstatement, fraud, procurement, regulatory breaches and whistleblowing issues.  Peadar lectures on Chartered Accountants Ireland’s Diploma in Forensic Accounting and Investigation. He also lectures in Financial Investigation Techniques and Money Laundering on the Postgraduate Diploma in Proceeds of Crime and Asset Identification with the University of Limerick and the Garda College.

Michael Gubbins

Detective Chief Superintendent Michael Gubbins is the Chief Bureau Officer of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and has been with an Garda Síochána for over 35 years. He previously led the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau and has represented the force on various Europol and European Cybercrime Centre fora. Appointed to CAB in May 2020, he focuses on targeting assets derived from criminal conduct to disrupt organised crime. Michael holds advanced degrees in forensic computing, serious crime investigation, governance, and leadership in policing.

Benedict O’Floinn

Bio: Benedict Ó Floinn SC is a Senior Counsel who has been practicing as a trial advocate since being called to the Bar of Ireland after studying law at Christ Church, Oxford. He represents the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Director of Public Prosecutions in high-profile criminal cases, and advises the Revenue Commissioners in tax and civil matters. His private-client work includes commercial disputes, corporate restructuring, and professional negligence. Benedict has also contributed to legal education and authored the leading text on court rules in Ireland, "Practice and Procedure in the Superior Courts.

Paul Hough

Bio: Paul Hough is the Managing Director of Data and Technology Advisory at Interpath Advisory, with over 17 years of experience. He specializes in digital forensics, eDiscovery, data analytics, and cyber incident response. Paul has led significant investigations, including a major fraud case for the UK Ministry of Justice and Serious Fraud Office, and a data discovery project for a large Irish bank. He holds advanced degrees in security and forensic computing, and information technology and telecommunications.

Suzanne Gunn

Suzanne Gunn is the Head of Economic, Transnational, and Organised Crime Policy at the Department of Justice, Ireland where she leads the development and implementation of criminal justice policies and strategies to combat all forms of economic and organised crime that threaten the public interest and the rule of law. Suzanne is a member of Ireland’s Advisory Council Against Economic Crime and Corruption and Anti Money Laundering Steering Committee, and Irish Head of Delegation for the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), the OECD Working Group on Bribery, the EU Network Against Corruption, and the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Criminal Asset Recovery (PC-RAC). Suzanne has over 15 years of experience in criminal justice, as a practising barrister and subsequently as Director of Criminal Enforcement at the Corporate Enforcement Authority heading up a multi-disciplinary team incorporating national police detectives and forensic accountants investigating complex cases of corporate and economic crime.

Bernard Eyres 

Bernard Eyres is a Director in the Forensic services practice at Interpath Advisory in Ireland, which he helped to build and lead since joining in 2022. He has considerable experience in the forensic accounting profession, having been involved for over  19 years in the provision of Investigation and Dispute Resolution Services. His work supports clients in areas such as commercial disputes, financial crime investigations and family law matters. Bernard is also involved in delivering the CAI’s Diploma in Forensic Accounting and Investigation. 

David McGill

David Mc Gill leads on Cyber Security Policy within the Security & Northern Ireland Division of the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration. Within the division, the Cyber Security Policy Team is responsible for shaping Irish cyber security policy, overseeing the implementation of the 5-year, whole-of-Government, National Cyber Security Strategy and active engagement and participation at EU level to shape key cyber security files. David first qualified in electronic engineering and after a brief time working in fraud investigation for a large, multi-national company, he moved into a career in law enforcement. He spent 16 years working in digital investigations where he specialised in digital & mobile phone forensics, OSINT, asset tracing, eDiscovery and more recently the application of AI to criminal investigations. For the past seven years, David worked at the Corporate Enforcement Authority where, as a member of its management board, he led on the development of a new digital investigations directorate and helped to shape the legislation and policy to bring the Corporate Enforcement Authority into existence. David took up his current role in June 2024.

Martin Holohan

Martin is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. His research examines the relationship between the law and AI, with a particular focus on the legal issues surrounding AI risk and liability. He currently teaches at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, having taught previously at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. His recent academic commentary in relation to the legal, ethical and social concerns associated with automated systems has been published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation (Cambridge University Press).

John Michael Harkness

John has over 15 years of experience in the fields of digital forensics and investigations. He specialises in digital forensics, eDiscovery, data analytics, and cyber incident response. Throughout his career, John has led numerous high-profile investigations across a range of industries, including retail, financial institutions, and large corporations. In addition to his professional work, John lectures on the Incident Response & Digital Forensics Master’s programme at Munster Technological University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Digital Forensics from University College Dublin.

Paul Darcy

Paul Darcy is a Chartered Engineer and a graduate of the UCD MSc in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation. He has acted as an Adjunct Lecturer on that programme. As a digital forensic specialist in the Department of Justice, he is frequently called as an expert witness in court. In an earlier life, he was part of the Microsoft Windows development team in Redmond, WA.

Zach Fleming

Zach is an Offensive Security Practice Manager at Praetorian. He has over 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, specialising in leading and performing Red Team operations and offensive security initiatives across a wide range of industries. He has extensive expertise in simulating advanced persistent threats, identifying critical vulnerabilities, and enhancing organisational defences against sophisticated threat actors. He is focused on driving innovation in offensive security and fostering collaboration between Red Teams and other security functions to strengthen overall cyber resilience. 

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