The President and Chief Operating Officer, Efrat Cohen, is a Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist, a State Licensed Private Investigator (L.P.I) in Florida, as well as in New Jersey and New York, where she operates as such under the auspices of the licenses held by British American Consultants, Inc., for which entity she is the Executive Vice President. She is certified in the Reid Technique of Interview and Interrogation and manages and oversees all services provided to her clients.

Specializing in corporate investigations, background intelligence gathering, social networking research and asset investigations; Efrat provides fraud investigative expertise to Special Investigation Units (SIU) within and throughout the insurance industry.

Efrat is a litigation support specialist and consultant, providing such services to assist the legal community in criminal defense and civil litigation causes in preparation of their cases.

An Israeli citizen, Efrat was born with a fine tuning of intuitive investigative skills, supplemented by bi-lingual capabilities, which is a recognized asset to all international investigative fields of endeavor.

In commencing her career as a Court Appointed Investigator – which is the only association that empowers everyday citizens to act as officers of the U.S. court system – and when coupled with her education at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Efrat provides a unique insight to the legal profession from a refreshingly innovative perspective.

Efrat is responsible for managing, controlling and directing surveillance operations, in which discipline she is especially well schooled, both in the disciplines of covert and under-cover operations, where her attributes as a female investigator has proved an essential ingredient to achieving astounding success - she treads where her male counterparts fear to do so!

Efrat has acknowledged expertise in conducting precision in-depth computer-related research, examining and exploiting all manner of public access database and an ever-expanding list of social networking facilities, to include direct interaction with international experts with like and forensic capabilities.

Efrat evolves a unique understanding and developmental strategy for every case dedicated to her care, and utilizes her specialist skills to achieve the best results.

Efrat can be reached at efrat@globalintelconsultants.com

Efrat is a Contributing Board Member of:

Society of Investigators of Greater Newark – President
Association of Legal Medical and Investigative Experts – Treasurer
Society of Professional Investigators – Board Member
Women Executive Leadership – Programming committee

Efrat is very active in the professional community and is a member of the following organizations:

• SPI – Society of Professional Investigators
• SIGN -  Society of Investigators of Greater Newark
• ALMIE – Association of Legal Medical Investigative Experts
• INFRAGARD
• Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
• Florida Association of Legal Investigators
• New Jersey Claims Association
• New Jersey Notary Public Commission
• American Association of Notaries
• United Nations Association of the United States of America
• Florida Israel Business Forum

EDUCATION, COURSES & SEMINARS:

• John Jay College of Criminal Studies – NY – Legal Studies – Political Science & Law
• The Institute of Fraud Risk Management
• Identity Theft Investigations
• Digital Forensic Evidence Collation
• Internet for Investigators
• Advanced Internet Search Techniques for Investigators
• The Reid Technique: Interviewing and Interrogation
• The Reid Technique: Advanced Interviewing and Interrogation
• Insurance Fraud Awareness
• Essex County Police Academy: Verbal Judo
• Essex County Police Academy: Fingerprint Classification
• FBI Seminar: The Art of the Steal

Founder and Chief Operations Officer of an international investigative and security management corporation since 1984, David Roberts is a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Investigators, a Certified Security and Safety Consultant and a member of some of the most prolific investigative and security organizations in the world.

A former supervisory police officer emanating from specialist departments within New Scotland Yard in London, David has an acknowledged expertise at in-depth national and international insurance, civil and criminal investigations. He has extensive investigative, intelligence gathering and security management experience at government, legal, institutional, private and commercial level to include International Crisis Management, Emergency Response and Evacuation disciplines.

Formerly responsible for provision of executive and personal protective services to members of the Royal Families of Britain, Saudi Arabia and other middle-eastern countries, as well as diplomats, heads of commerce at Fortune 500 corporate levels and various high profile personalities from the entertainment industry; David has acquired extensive local, national and global expertise, specializing in the provision of advanced executive protection and associated security disciplines to numerous discerning high-profile clients both in commerce and the entertainment industry.

David is responsible for initiating, developing, managing and controlling, national and international strategic intelligence, investigative and security networking resources, assets and personnel; collating all information sourced, evaluating, disseminating and implementing such for the benefit of client strategies within domestic and international multi-faceted corporate project initiatives.

WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE?

Our clients are our greatest marketing assets.  We are aware of it and never lose sight of that essential ingredient for success and continuity of performance. We are passionate in the knowledge that we enter into an exclusive and unique partnership with each and every one of our clients.

We constantly adhere to the principles of flexibility in responsiveness and, as a matter of course, operate outside the box of the conventional thinking to our peers.

Our ability to recommend a custom-tailored full Turn Key research and investigative project, based on our global expertise, honed from more than 25-years of consistent performance as such courtesy of our senior Principal, ensures that where others may have failed, we are confident in our abilities to achieve.

This is our definition of what makes us different: “We remain forever in passionate pursuit of excellence for and on behalf of our clients.”