Dan Greenberg - President & Founder of GCI

Overview

  • Industry leader in business intelligence and investigations 

  • Open-source, public records, and human source expertise

  • U.S. and international capabilities, with a special focus on Israeli cases

  • Creative approaches to bespoke, complex assignments

  • Languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish

Prior Experience

Dan has been working in due diligence and corporate investigations since 2010. Dan has a track record of uncovering hard-to-find facts, overcoming difficult challenges, and providing responsive service. His experience has centered on investigative due diligence, shareholder activism support, litigation support, and competitive intelligence.

Prior to founding GCI, he was a managing director at Forward Risk, having previously worked at Kroll, TD International (TDI), and Exiger. At Kroll, Dan worked on hiring, training, and supervising a large team of researchers for anti-corruption due diligence projects, while also managing his own investigative casework, including numerous projects in Latin America and the Middle East.

Dan then joined TDI as the first manager of the Open Source Research Center, supporting the third-party due diligence programs of multinational corporations. His role at TDI also included leading complex investigations in Latin America and Asia.

Dan had multiple areas of responsibility at Exiger Diligence, including leadership of a quality assurance team and work on complex cases, including pre-IPO due diligence and bespoke investigations. Dan created the knowledge management infrastructure, revised the product lineup, advanced technology initiatives, and continually worked to advance a culture of research excellence.

Beginning in 2018, Dan helped grow Forward Risk from a small, newly established company with a handful of employees to a premier firm with over 25 full-time investigators. Dan led numerous cases primarily related to high-level investigations and disputes, in the U.S. and internationally. Dan also co-led training and professional development programs. Forward Risk was acquired in November 2022, and, after a transition period, Dan left to establish GCI as a new, independent firm.

Representative Matters

Dan’s approach emphasizes thoroughness, sophistication, and responsiveness to client needs. He applies research techniques from various disciplines to deliver clear, evidence-backed answers to difficult questions. The following are selected examples of recent matters:

  • As part of a proxy contest, Dan was tasked with vetting an activist investor’s board nominees. Dan uncovered severe allegations related to gender-based harassment and misconduct by one of the nominees, who had not previously been connected to the accusations in any media reporting. The allegations cannot be found via standard court index searches or media research.


  • In support of a white-collar criminal defense engagement related to corruption allegations in Central America, Dan was tasked with ascertaining the approximate location of a key individual – using only open sources. Through social media and deep web research combined with relationship mapping, Dan located the individual’s brother’s profiles, which showed recent photographs of the key individual at specific locations within a European country.


  • Dan assisted a company that had lost out on a major cybersecurity contract by investigating the backgrounds of the winning bidders. Dan found several irregularities, including apparent plagiarism, the lack of a verifiable cybersecurity background, and an unsubstantiated claim to have proprietary, patented technology.


  • As part of due diligence into a venture capital investor, Dan conducted interviews with former co-workers, one of whom detailed the investor’s temper and willingness to bend the rules. This source explained how the investor had been fired from a previous firm due to conduct issues, even though the departure had been framed as a friendly separation.


  • Dan completed integrity due diligence on a nominee for the board of directors of a publicly traded company that operates multiple well-known brands. The company already knew that the nominee had been linked to a high-profile controversy. Dan examined the matter in depth, ultimately finding no concrete allegation of misconduct by the nominee. With the issue addressed, the board appointment went forward smoothly and without any public criticism.  

Credentials

Dan holds a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University and an M.A. in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University.

Dan is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE no.: 869765). Dan is licensed as a Private Detective in the District of Columbia (license no. PD40000079).