CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS
CORPORATE INVESTIGATIONS
RISK MANAGEMENT
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
Our elite team of premiere investigators have hundreds of years of combined experience encompassing exemplary policing careers, senior corporate security executives and business leaders. They are specifically recruited based on demonstrated investigative abilities, consistent professionalism, and a history of personal and professional success. ISN specializes in corporate, financial, and insurance investigations for a number of Fortune 500 companies including major banks, investment firms, local, national, and multinational corporations, as well as a number of prominent clients within the energy sector.
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We pride ourselves on professionalism and our standards of excellence. We offer quality, confidential private investigation services, providing our clients with ongoing support throughout the entire process.
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Whether it’s a corporate, criminal, civil, insurance or personal matter, ISN’s investigators are subject matter experts who consistently exceed our client’s expectations.
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
Risk management is the process for identifying, analyzing, and communicating risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or controlling it to an acceptable level considering associated costs and benefits of any actions taken.
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ISN works closely with our clients to understand our client’s security risk profile and risk appetite. We then use industry best practices and subject matter experts to establish and implement a security risk management plan. These plans can include, creating a robust enterprise security management system, conducting threat, risk and vulnerability assessments, training employees on how they each play a role in minimizing the organization’s risk profile or conducting detailed investigations on security breaches or employee misconduct.
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The ISN Risk Management consultants work closely with our clients, providing a dedicated approach focused on helping protect their enterprise concerns. We provide hands-on expertise in key areas, including:
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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS
ROB GOODFELLOW
INVESTIGATIONS
TRAINING
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Rob Goodfellow is the Vice Chairman and former President and CEO of Investigative Research Group. Prior to IRG, Rob retired as an OPP Superintendent with thirty years’ experience at the provincial, national and international levels. Rob has served in various locations throughout Ontario. His police experience includes: general duties; major crimes; covert undercover operations; behavioural sciences; forensic polygraph; fraud; and General Headquarter Executive Management.
Rob’s policing career positions include: Behavioural, Forensic & Electronic Services (which included all aspects of forensic identification, e-crime/child exploitation, DNA, criminal profiling, polygraph, threat assessment, Ontario Sex Offender Registry, missing persons and unidentified bodies). Rob has experience within the Behavioural Sciences Section, Provincial Communications, Operational Policy & Strategic Planning, Contract Policing, Crime Prevention; Fraud Programs Branch, Ministry of Health; Liaison Officer to the Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services, Crime Units, Drug Enforcement, and general duties detachments and was the Executive Officer to the Commissioner of the OPP.
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Rob graduated the FBI National Academy, Quantico, Virginia and has received specialized training from the DEA in New York. He has been recognized as an expert in court and is widely recognized for his study and training of deception related to body language, statement analysis, interviewing and interrogation. Rob has lectured extensively at the Canadian and Ontario Police Colleges, the OPP Academy and as far away as Australia.
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Rob has sat on many Boards and Committees including as past Chair of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) Crime Prevention Committee and the OACP Victims Assistance Committee. Rob currently sits as a volunteer Director for the Victims Justice Network.
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Professional Experience
• Rob has been involved in excess of 100 Workplace Investigations.
• Rob has been involved in many major criminal cases and has secured confessions on homicide cases, serious sexual assaults and arsons.
• Rob received many commendations and awards. One such award was the International Award of Honour from the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association (INEOA).
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Education & Certification
• Laurentian University, University of Virginia, FBI National Academy, Canadian and Ontario Police Colleges, OPP Academy, Forensic Polygraph Examiner,
Professional Associations
• FBI National Academy Associates, Canadian Association Special Investigations Units, Council of Private Investigators of Ontario, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police