John Karamoschos

Executive summary

John is a Forensic Services Director with BDO in Sydney. He has 18+ years’ experience as an accomplished Forensic Technology professional having worked in consulting firms, data focused litigation support organisations and a global forensic software provider. He combines detailed knowledge and understanding of forensic software, with specialist advice on the identification, preservation, collection, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

John has led numerous technology-based investigations for litigation, internal investigation, regulatory matters (on behalf of both regulators and responders), as well as for data breach, data separation and data privacy matters around the globe.

His ability to effectively apply advanced technology capabilities to meet precise standards and deadlines, while maintaining a robust, transparent and compliant methodology, make him a trusted leader and adviser.

Sectors

• Financial Services
• Insurance
• Healthcare
• Technology, Media and Communications
• Government

Expertise

• eDiscovery and litigation support
• Fraud and misconduct investigations
• White collar crime investigations
• Litigation readiness
• Cyber / data breach remediation
• Intellectual property theft
• Defensible data separation / data migrations businesses

Experience

• Telecommunications sector - Insolvency
  • Led the data preservation exercise for a large telecommunications company under administration including the processing and review of data supporting responses to regulatory and litigation enquiries in three countries
• Automotive sector - Cartel investigation
  • Led the data collection for over 200 subjects in twelve countries. Data processing, review and regulatory response exercise for several tyre manufacturers under an investigation working closely with external and in-house counsel
• Financial services - LIBOR rate manipulation investigation
  • Led an eDiscovery engagement in relation to the manipulation of Libor rates for a large financial institution. Processing and review support of several different data sources for an international bank to enable its response to global regulators in the UK, US, and Hong Kong in relation to rate fixing allegations
• Financial services - Data breach review
  • Led an engagement to identify data subjects and leaked personally identifiable information in a large corpus of data which had been compromised in a data breach. The engagement assisted the client in coordinating its response to the incident and meeting its notification obligations
• Technology sector - Shareholder Dispute
  • Deploying and overseeing an end-to-end complex engagement for a technology client in the Peoples Republic of China in an onsite, air gapped environment with elements in the Cayman Islands and Australia which achieved its objectives whilst simultaneously satisfying data privacy issues across the various jurisdictions.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Law LLB (Hons)
• Member, Australian Information Security Association (AISA)