Faculty Profile

 

Ariel Ramirez
Lecturer

Van Munching Hall
(732) 590-5228
arielramirez32@hotmail.com

 

Ariel Ramirez, has over 21 years of professional experience. He has provided fraud investigative and other services to Fortune 500 companies, private entities, United States federal agencies and foreign governments in North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  He has led hundreds of interviews and interrogations in English and Spanish and, through interpreters, in Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic and Russian. Throughout his entire career he concurrently served the nation in the armed forces reserves for over 21 years - first in the enlisted ranks of the United States Marine Corps Reserves and later, as a commissioned Officer in the United States Navy Reserves last assigned to the Pentagon.

Ariel is Corporate Director of Special Investigations and Forensic Audit for a $107B multinational with 480,000 employees in 190 countries where he leads fraud investigation, prevention, eradication and training efforts in the Americas and mostly working globally. Prior to this role he served as Principal and National practice leader of a consulting firm and responsible for the following lines of service: Fraud & Special Investigations; Electronic Evidence & E-Discovery; Forensic Accounting; Litigation Support; and Anti-Fraud Solutions. Ariel also served as  Director of Disputes and Investigations for Huron Consulting Group; National Director, Fraud Services, for Ernst & Young LLP; and as Senior Consultant, Manager, Senior Manager and Director at KPMG LLP.

Ariel is an adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, where he teaches graduate fraud investigation and forensic accounting in the Executive Masters Program.  In addition, he has presented to corporations and professional associations on fraud, FCPA and internal audit topics.

He holds a BS in Computer Science and MBA in International Business from Tampa College and holds the following certifications: CFE, CIA, CFSA, CGAP and CCSA. Ariel is Chairman of the IIA Board of Governors and Chapter President in Northern Virginia for 2007-2008.