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Ariel Ramirez is a multiple times award-winning adjunct professor on corporate investigation, fraud examination and forensic audit at the University of Maryland, Robert Smith School of Business, and a guest-invited lecturer at Rutgers University. Ariel is also President & CEO for RKA Worldwide Group USA LLC, and RKA Worldwide Brasil Ltda, professional services and management consulting firms, and repeatedly sought after experts in high stakes forensic, integrity services and special investigations, as well as risk, security/executive protection, white-collar crime litigation support, and compliance advisory services. In addition, Ariel is Chairman of Latin America for Mavins International, a global network of independent accounting, auditing, tax, and advisory firms, delivering professional services worldwide.

With over 25 years of experience, Ariel is an internationally recognized leader overseeing multi-national/cross-border related topics. He worked on various services including anti-bribery / corruption, US FCPA, similar laws such as the UK Bribery Act, Colombia Anti-Bribery Statue and Brazil Clean Company Act; violation of policy, financial crimes, due diligence, employee/vendor/executive misconduct, economic sanctions, complex white-collar defense, government enforcement including parallel actions, and special investigations from Board and C-level as well as audit-committee mandates. He has worked with risk functions, in-house and outside legal counsel including major international law firms, and with domestic and international police and other law enforcement agencies.

He has led beginning-to-end investigative services in the mentioned areas in addition to procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, workplace violence, inferior products, drug spoilage, money laundering, tax fraud, gap analysis, loan covenant violations, disaster recovery/SBA and COVID-19 claims, compliance program review, consultation on internal controls, and ethics program development, in various industries. He served the Fortune 500, private entities, multilateral institutions, development banks, federal agencies, royal families and foreign governments. Ramirez worked as lead investigator and on expert support team roles on the world’s largest fraud and corruption matters and/or related monitorships and global testing.

Ariel is fluent trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese. He lived/worked overseas for extended periods of time on corporate international projects and expatriate executive roles and able to easily relate to various cultures and geographies. He has worked on the ground in many countries including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Africa, Greece, Canada, Russia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and USA.

He is a veteran and concurrent with his corporate career served in the military reserves first enlisted in the US Marines and graduated from Marine Corps recruit depot Parris Island, and recipient of multiple early merit promotions. Following enlisted service, he graduated from US Navy officer’s school in Pensacola and became a Commissioned Officer, working as a supply corps officer, logistics, amphibious assault, training, and landing support.

Ariel holds an M.B.A. in International Business and B.S./A.S. in Computer Science with Cum Laude, Director’s Honor Roll and Dean’s List high grades academic achievement awards, from Tampa College. He is a graduate of John Reid’s and Wicklander-Zulawski’s Techniques of Interview and Interrogation, Basic & Advanced Courses. He holds the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified in Risk Mgt Assurance (CRMA), Certified Government Audit Professional (CGAP), Certified in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA), Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA) and Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA).