FOUNDER

Max Block has over 20 years of experience providing OSINT-based intelligence services to large, publicly traded clients in the investment banking, private wealth management, defense, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and telecommunications sectors. He is widely known in the investigative and risk consultancy space for his ability to assemble teams with highly specialized skills that can handle even the most complex, geographically diverse investigations. He is deeply familiar with a broad set of OSINT and analytical tools that allow his teams access to public records in virtually every country in the world and leaked, hacked or otherwise breached data sets on the dark web. His teams also leverage the latest AI-based tools to analyze large data sets (e.g., customer banking data, securities-related filings, etc.) to identify indicia of fraud or other anomalous patterns.

Prior to founding Brightwater, Max was an executive with the Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) unit of one of the largest Swiss banks in the world. Prior to that, he worked with several top-tier global consultancies, including KPMG. 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 holds an M.S. from Columbia University in Manhattan and a B.A. from 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.