Firm Leadership

David T. Sawyer
CPA.CFF.CITP, CFE, CAMS, CIA, PI

As a forensic accountant and financial crimes investigator for civil litigation and criminal prosecution, David Sawyer has served as consulting or testifying expert for hundreds of investigations involving fraud, corruption, financial damages and a variety of other legal disputes. He has provided expert witness testimony in more than two dozen of those matters. David served a key role in developing software designed as an early warning system to detect red flags of fraud, waste, abuse, and white-collar crime. He has also worked as an advisor on the global initiative to combat, prevent and detect multi-national economic and military espionage, as well as the proliferation of WMD, terrorist financing and money laundering.

Previously, David was a partner with a Top 50 Regional CPA / Advisory Firm and consultant with forensic units of two Big Four accounting firms. A former internal auditor for Fortune 500 corporations, Mr. Sawyer still regularly consults with organizations on improvements of internal controls, as well as fraud prevention and detection. His clients have included law enforcement and prosecutors, senior executives and managers, boards of directors, audit committees, general counsel, attorneys and litigators for governments, governmental agencies, publicly traded global corporations and privately-owned businesses.

Mr. Sawyer is a Board Member Emeritus of the Georgia Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners, where he was elected president four times. Currently, he serves on the State of Georgia Board of Private Detectives and Security Agencies, appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to serve a four-year term. He is also a founding member of the Fraud and Forensic Services Advisory Council for the Georgia Society of CPA’s and has been Co-Chairman for the Atlanta Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). David is a member of Infragard and served as co-chairman of Special Projects for the Southeast United States Chapter of BENS (Business Executives for National Security).

David is a graduate of Auburn University. He has addressed thousands of professionals and students on the topic of fraud examination, financial investigations, and forensic accounting. In 2004, he co-founded the fraud investigation and forensic accounting course for the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where he still serves as a guest presenter and instructor. David is a published author and has provided expert commentary for the Atlanta news media affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and NPR.

For a current and complete copy of Mr. Sawyer’s full expert witness bio, please contact him by e-mail: [email protected]