Roger Aldridge, Director, KPMG Roger is an experienced former Chief Police Officer with both a local and national police background. He has led significant national criminal policy issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and delivered national multi-agency initiatives in organised crime and criminal asset recovery. In achieving this he worked alongside colleagues from other national law enforcement agencies and with Government.  Roger is one of the few ACPO officers with experience of both national organised crime investigation and local police force operations. Roger is now a Director at KPMG Forensic developing their services in support of law enforcement agencies.

Jason Pate, Director, KPMG Jason joined KPMG in 1996 and has approximately 15 years of experience in the accountancy profession. Since April 1996 Jason has specialised full-time in Forensic. He has considerable experience in a variety of forensic work types including: business crime and confiscation matters; competition and regulatory investigations; fraud investigations and accounting misstatements; civil recoveries arising from frauds; loss of profits cases; and sale and purchase agreement vetting. Jason has particularly strong experience in matters involving Civil recoveries arsing from fraud in the UK and overseas jurisdictions, business crime and competition related investigations, the latter including assisting a major FTSE plc in responding to an investigation undertaken by the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) into alleged predatory and excessive pricing infringements under the Competition Act 1998.  He recently led the Forensic work on a significant multi-million pound alleged fraud perpetrated on a number of High Street banks in the UK.  The case involved recreating the accounting records following the destruction of the vast majority of the Company’s records, including a significant Forensic Technology element of imaging and recreating Company records from old “DAT” tapes and damaged computer hard drives.  Jason has acted as the KPMG named expert in numerous civil and criminal cases and he has given expert evidence at Trial.  Jason has prepared numerous expert accountancy reports in his own name in civil and criminal matters, the latter often being instructed on behalf of the Defence in cases including charges relating to theft, conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Emma Shaw, Managing Director. Esoteric Ltd Emma has been actively involved at all levels in both covert and overt investigations for over 20 years.  The early part of her career was spent with the Royal Military Police, followed by a career in UK government.  Emma is the Managing Director of Esoteric Ltd, a specialist TSCM and covert investigations company, which she founded in 1998.  The company provide bespoke confidential services, which assist their clients to deal with issues such as Theft, Fraud, Counterfeiting, employment related issues, and economic and corporate espionage. With a strong management team she has developed the company and in 2006, Esoteric, were awarded the prestigious BS EN9001: 2000 by the National Security Inspectorate (NSI).   Emma is a member of the Council for the Security Institute, the Registrar for the Validation Board of The Security Institute, Southern Region Chair for the Defence Industry Security Association (DISA) and Assistant Regional Vice President to ASIS Europe.