2027 ACFE GOVERNMENT ANTI-FRAUD SUMMIT

As an instructor, author, and former investigative director, Don Rabon's instructional areas include interviewing, rapport building, interrogation, persuasion, detecting deception, investigative reasoning and investigation discourse analysis. He is retired from the North Carolina Justice Academy, North Carolina Department of Justice, where he served as deputy director.

Over a period of 33 years, Rabon has provided instruction and investigative assistance to investigators in 45 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Belgium, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, Trinidad, Barbados and England. He has also trained federal, state and local criminal justice personnel; NATO counterintelligence personnel; and private sector investigative, audit and corporate security personnel.

Dr. David Utzke has a lifelong learning educational philosophy which includes advanced degrees in computer science/programming, forensic accounting, international finance, global macro-economics and cryptoeconomics with 25 years of experience in cryptocurrency technology. Utzke’s interest in cryptocurrencies began in 1990 with the introduction of the first centralized cryptocurrency called Digicash. In 2009, with the introduction of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Utzke began the development of open-source blockchain forensic investigative techniques now used in his work as an agent with the U.S. government. He has led cryptocurrency initiatives involving several hundred cryptocurrency cases over the past five years, major enforcement actions, and trains and supports field agents in ongoing investigations. Utzke also continues to develop his computer coding skills in Solidity used in 2nd Gen DLT SCS (Smart Contract Scripting) and dApps (distributed applications) platforms.

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering the worlds of hackers, cybersecurity and surveillance. He’s the author of the forthcoming book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. His last book, Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (and excerpts from it published in WIRED) received numerous awards including the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. Greenberg works in WIRED's New York office.

Linda Miller is a principal with Grant Thornton’s Advisory Practice and a nationally recognized expert in fraud risk management. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Miller spent 10 years with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). While at GAO, she led the development of the framework for managing fraud risks in federal programs, which describes leading practices to help federal managers proactively manage their fraud risks in order to prevent fraud from occurring. Miller also helped draft the Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015 and served on the task force that developed the ACFE/COSO Fraud Risk Guide, which guides the private sector in fraud risk management. Miller leads Grant Thornton’s Fraud Risk Mitigation practice.