Our Directors
Our Team of Directors has extensive expertise in accountancy, fraud and investigations, data recovery, designing error and fraud repellent processes, tax and mediation
Ron Warmington - Chairman
BANKING, INVESTMENT & FRAUD MANAGEMENT
Ron is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the ACi (Association of Corporate investigators). As Global Head of Banking Investigations at Citibank, directing over 100 investigators dealing with cases in over 100 countries, and as its Head of Security for EMEA, Ron has dealt with every type of fraud and every other form of corporate embarrassment and loss. Under his leadership, Citibank’s fraud-related asset recoveries routinely exceeded USD 100 million p.a. Ron’s team at GE Capital developed a Global Fraud Management Programme that materially increased Corporate profits by slashing fraud-related (and credit-related) losses. Exceptional Returns on Investment were achieved by designing and deploying highly effective / efficient preventive and detective measures. In 2006, Ron flagged up the impending sub-prime / CDO crisis and predicted the Global Financial melt-down. With extensive experience in Internal Audit; Banking; Systems Design; Process Repair and Business Management (including 8 years as CFO of Citibank’s Global Asset Management Business) and a highly successful period as a CFD Trader, Ron has consistently shown that he has the skills, the personality and the drive to deal with the most challenging situations. Between 2012 and 2015, Ron’s company ‘Second Sight’ established the causes of mysterious shortfalls in branches of the Post Office, revealing what has been described as the country’s worst ever miscarriage of justice.
Ian Henderson - Director
HIGH-TECH DATA RECOVERY & MANAGEMENT, INVESTIGATIONS
Ian is uniquely qualified as an investigator and an IT Auditor. Professional qualifications include CISA and CFE. Ian was previously Head of Investigations at the Personal Investment Authority. Immediately prior to this, he held a number of senior regulatory roles at Lloyd’s of London. As Manager of the Lloyd’s Loss Review Department, Ian was responsible for the independent investigation of financial losses exceeding £800 million. He was also Manager of the Action Group Support Unit which worked closely with members of Lloyd’s who were disputing liability for Lloyd’s losses. In this role Ian dealt directly with Members of Parliament who were raising various issues concerning Lloyd’s losses. Ian has examined over 300 personal computers, network servers and personal digital devices, has been responsible for over 20 major fraud investigations and has directly facilitated substantial financial recoveries as a result of examining the digital evidence. He has been appointed as the Court’s computer expert in civil cases in both England and Scotland and has given evidence as a forensic computer expert in numerous civil and criminal cases, including a major terrorism trial at the Old Bailey. Between January 2001 and July 2005, Ian acted (part time) as Special Advisor to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Ian was also a selected as a contributing author to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners “Fraud Casebook”. Between 2012 and 2015, Ian and the Team at 'Second Sight' established the causes of mysterious shortfalls in branches of the Post Office, revealing what has been described as the country’s worst ever miscarriage of justice.
Kay Linell - Director
FORENSIC ACCOUNTANT - MEDIATION - QUANTUM
Kay is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, has an MBA and is recognised by a number of official bodies. Kay specialises in forensic accounting, financial disputes and areas of litigation support including civil, family and criminal matters. She has experience in specialist commercial matters including share valuations, insurance claims, management consultancy, construction disputes, business interruption, insolvency and corporate recovery, fraud investigations, forensic reconstruction, tax professional negligence and tax investigations. With a wealth of experience in compliance matters, Kay has held office as the Chief Executive of the Joint Insolvency Monitoring Unit Limited for the self-regulation of the insolvency profession; as the Board of Inland Revenue's Chief Investigating Accountant and Head of Accountancy Profession and Accountancy Advisor in the Special Compliance Office at the Inland Revenue. Kay is the author or co-author of: Tolley’s Tax Appeals (published 2001); Tolley’s Accountancy Litigation Support (1998-2004); and Experts in the Civil Courts (OUP, 2006). Kay also regularly lectures at events for accountants, barristers and judges, and expert witnesses.
Members of
Second Sight's Directors hold multiple memberships of professional bodies including:
Our Associates
Jackie Barwell - Associate
FINANCIAL CRIME, FRAUD IDENTIFICATION
& MANAGEMENT
Jackie has more than 40 years’ experience dealing with financial crime in the banking industry. Her career launchpad was the powerful internal audit teams of world-class banks, including National Australia Bank, Bank of America and Citibank/Citigroup. In just ten years at Citigroup, Jackie then progressed to become a Senior Vice President and its Head of Global Fraud Management. In that role, Jackie took Citi to an industry-leading position in the field of Fraud Management, managing the rollout, through its network of Compliance Officers, of a Global Fraud Management Policy and significantly lifting fraud identification results, thereby reducing its profit-sapping business impact. In her four years as Director of Fraud for the International markets at Payment Processor: ‘First Data’ which, as part of their suite of services, provided anti-fraud technologies, Jackie’s teams analysed the existing anti-fraud capabilities, assessed gaps and recommended cost-effective improvements. This involved mass data analysis, fraud intelligence sharing and link analysis. Recognising the need for smart IT to magnify the power of smart people, Jackie focused on the deployment of sophisticated fraud prevention/detection software, setting the vision, and then leading the development direction, of financial crime products at Actimize; ‘future-proofing’ its product range to deal with an ever-changing fraud environment. Jackie represented the company in media interviews and industry events worldwide. Latterly, Jackie serves as the Director of Fraud and Risk Product Management at ACI Worldwide, responsible for ensuring the financial crime solutions offered by ACI are as comfortable in the Public Cloud as they are anywhere else, and continue to lead the market.
Jason Coyne - Associate
IT AND DIGITAL FORENSICS
Jason is an information technology and digital forensics expert with over 35 years of experience in the technology sector. He specialises in the collection and analysis of digital evidence in disputes regarding computer misuse, corporate malfeasance, intellectual property disputes and root cause of failure analysis. He has testified multiple times in the Technology and Construction Court, other High Courts, various criminal courts, and international arbitrations. Most notably - Jason served as an expert witness, instructed by Alan Bates, in the case against the Post Office with regard to the Horizon system. Jason has delivered evidence to the Post Office Horizon and Grenfell Inquiries as well as providing evidence to the SRA, the Pensions Regulator, and data commissioners globally.
Richard Cumming - Associate
FRAUD DETECTIVE, INVESTIGATOR
Richard retired from the City of London Police Fraud Squad in 2004 as a Detective Inspector, having spent the previous 13-years working on complex fraud and money laundering cases, including a period of secondment to a sensitive section in the Foreign Office targeting international organised crime. Richard passed the advanced UK National Police Training Course on investigation of money laundering/asset tracing and was engaged in the most serious money laundering and fraud investigations involving international and organised crime, for example, leading an investigation on the £100 million collapse of a City of London merchant bank which resulted in the Chairman receiving a term of imprisonment of 7-years. He also led investigations and developed intelligence involving the extent to which so called "Russian Organised Crime" had penetrated the UK. Richard was security vetted to the highest level and frequently called on to investigate particularly sensitive cases outside the conventional Fraud Squad remit. For example, the compromise of computer systems involved with UK National Security. He received several commendations from Chief Officers of the City of London Police. Since leaving the police, he has continued in an investigative role in the private sector, forming his own company (www.mondrago.eu) and conducted investigations on behalf of several major corporations as well as an extensive private clientele. His work in the private sector has included travel to the USA, Canada and several European countries to conduct enquiries and led to the development of contacts in numerous other parts of the world. Richard is a Fellow, and current Principal, of the Institute of Professional Investigators and also has membership of the World Association of Professional Investigators and International Association of Arson Investigators.
Judith Raphaely- Associate
DISPUTE RESOLUTION & TRAINING
Judith’s career started at Freshfields, where she qualified as a dispute resolution lawyer and worked on two very high-profile commercial matters. The first related to insurance and an extremely complex market restructuring, on which Judith worked in London and New York. The second, concerning misappropriation of assets worth billions, was based in Brunei and working closely with a large team of forensic accountants. On both Judith took and collated evidence including from prominent private and public figures, which developed her interest in balancing detailed complexity with clear delivery. Other cases included one to rectify an agreement following professional negligence by a well-known City law firm, and another about a breach of warranty as to management accounts. Judith is passionate about making complex material clear as well as accurate, particularly when writing reports. She has combined and built on her professional and academic backgrounds as an expert in professional development and in particular how to make training for bright and busy people engaging, effective and efficient, and leads Second Sight’s training programme. Judith could fly before she could walk, having lived in three countries before she turned five. She’s worked in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the US and continues to travel extensively. Her qualifications include a first-class degree from Cambridge, as a Solicitor admitted to the courts of England and Wales with Higher Rights (currently non-practising), and as a mediator.
