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SPEAKERS

DAVID TINSLEY
Chief Executive Officer
5 Stones Intelligence, Miami, USA
David Tinsley is a retired United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Supervisory Special Agent with a total of
32 years combined Law Enforcement and Intelligence experience. He was responsible for the development, management, and execution
of – Financial Investigations, Undercover Money Laundering Investigations, and related Enforcement Operations. David was the original
architect and manager of 12 Attorney General Exempted Operations (AGEO) Financial Undercover Investigations. He was the lead DEA
Case Agent for undercover Money Laundering SARC/AGEO operations, which extended to the 10 largest U.S. cities and 15 Foreign Countries. He is a pioneer
in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) arena, designing one of the first Governmental and Financial Industry Threat Assessment programs. He authored the
original Financial Threat Assessment for the DEA concerning the Blended Threat of emerging Radical Terrorist Groups, Drug Cartels and Black Market
Payment Systems” and their threat to the U.S. Banking and Financial communities. While serving with the DEA, he received the DEA’s highest award – The Administrator’s
Award of Honor for Investigations, on seven occasions. David has a BS/MS in Criminal Justice, Completed Post Graduate studies at Wharton Business School, and is a
PhD student in Global Business at Regent University.

MICHAEL JULIAN
President
MPS Security & Protection
Michael Julian is the President/CEO of MPS Security & Protection and National Business Investigations, Inc. (NBI), an industry leader in
Legal Investigations, Corporate Investigations, Covert Surveillance, and Corporate Security Services. After more than 5 decades in business,
NBI continues to locate people and assets around the globe, conduct thousands of civil, criminal, corporate and industrial investigations
each year and provide security services to corporations, businesses, high net worth individuals, celebrities and special events throughout
the US. To address the special circumstances associated with personal protection, NBI operates a special private security division devoted exclusively to the protection
of persons and facilities at risk. The MPS Security Operations division of NBI focuses solely on Personal Security and Protective Services. Specialties: Licensed Private
Investigations, Legal, Criminal, Background, Asset, Due Diligence, Locates, Surveillance, Theft, Undercover, Counter Espionage and Intelligence Investigations, Threat
Assessment, Union Labor Strike Security, Executive & Asset Protection, Risk Management and Security Programs.

DEAN BEERS
Associates in Forensic Investigations LLC,

Dean Beers is a Certified Legal Investigator and formed my legal investigative agency in 1987. He left the private
sector in late 2005 to accept a full-time position as a deputy coroner / death investigator with the Larimer County Medical Examiner’s
Office, after graduating with honors from the Weld County Law Enforcement Academy. In late 2008 he returned to the private sector,
focusing on Personal Injury, Negligence & Death in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation. His extensive experience is in death/serious bodily injury
investigation and related forensics. His specific areas are review of official records, reports and photographs (law enforcement and medical examiner).
In addition, provide Individual Locates, Address Verifications, Assets & Liabilities Records, Civil and Criminal Histories and Complete Personal Profiles.
Extensive experience is in death / serious bodily injury investigation and related forensics. Dean is also Certified Criminal Defense Investigator, Certified Forensic
Interviewer-Forensic Testimonial Evidence Recovery, and Certified in Medicolegal Death Investigations.

ROGER BESCOBY
Director of Compliance & Development
Conflict International, London, UK

Roger Bescoby has extensive knowledge of the investigation and surveillance industry with more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of
sectors. He specialises in claims validation and counter-fraud operations, launching his first agency in 1994. More recently, Roger has
provided technical claims, surveillance, compliance and security support to the fleet passenger transport sector where he worked with
almost every bus operator in the UK. In 2014, Roger was voted on to the governing council of the Association of British Investigators where he
became Compliance Officer. Well known at a number of law firms and insurers, Roger is passionate about ethical and compliant operations and has regularly appeared
on radio and TV as an enthusiastic industry spokesman.

WES BEARDON
Attorney & Chief Executive Officer
Bearden Investigative Agency, Inc., Dallas, USA

Wes Bearden is a licensed attorney and investigator in Texas and Louisiana, USA. Wes Bearden is not your stereotypical investigator.
Because most of his clients are lawyers and law firms, he went to law school so that he could better understand what his clients need.
He is an active attorney licensed in Texas and Louisiana. He understands what is discoverable and what is admissible in court. He knows how to
handle witnesses appropriately and ethically, and he can work more easily on investigations that cross into other states. Mr. Bearden knows that
experience counts when it comes to tackling tough investigative challenges for his clients. His agency, established in Dallas in 1972, has conducted investigations in all
50 states and more than 40 foreign countries.He maintains active membership and leadership in a number of private investigative associations throughout the United
States. He also serves as general counsel of the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI).

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