FOUNDER

Max is the founder and CEO of Brightwater. He has over 20 years of experience providing investigative consulting services to some of the largest public and private sector entities in the U.S. He is widely known in the risk consultancy space for his ability to assemble teams with highly specialized qualifications to address even the most complex assignments. He has worked for top-tier consulting firms and in-house in the Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) unit for one of the largest Swiss banks in the world. Max spent the first decade of his career in journalism, producing stories in Afghanistan, Iraq (embedded), Mali, Honduras, Nicaragua, Tierra del Fuego and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Vassar College.

ADVISOR

Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD, PhD, is CEO and founder of GEC Risk Advisory and a global governance, risk, ESG, ethics, cyber, and crisis strategist, who serves a broad cross-section of businesses, nonprofit, and government agencies. Bonime-Blanc spent two decades as a C-suite global corporate executive at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG, including serving as general counsel and chief ethics, risk, compliance and CSR officer, as well as overseeing a wide variety of functions including legal, governance, risk, ethics, corporate responsibility, government relations, strategic communications, crisis management, compliance, audit, information security and environmental, health and safety. She began her career as an international corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb. She was born and raised in Germany and Spain. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

ADVISOR

Scott Moritz is the president of White Collar Forensic LLC, a boutique investigative, forensic accounting and compliance advisory firm providing turnkey investigative, financial analytical and compliance advisory services. Mr. Moritz served as an FBI Special Agent from 1986 to 1996 serving in the Memphis, Tennessee and New York City field offices. During his FBI tenure, he focused primarily on white collar crime, public corruption and money laundering investigations throughout the U.S. and internationally. His criminal investigative experience included bank fraud and embezzlement, fraud by wire, mail fraud, bribery, kickbacks, procurement fraud, payroll fraud, securities fraud, advance fee schemes, interstate theft and boiler room operations.