FTI Consulting has employed Jeremy Sheridan as a managing director in its blockchain and digital belongings observe. He’s based mostly in Washington, DC.
Sheridan brings greater than a decade of expertise in regulatory affairs to FTI, the place he’ll function lead investigator and testifying professional for disputes referring to blockchain, cryptocurrency, and different digital belongings.
The riskiness and wild-west nature of the cryptoasset market has been highlighted by the latest collapse of the FTX crypto change. Outstanding economists view cryptoassets as, at greatest, a approach to rip-off low-information shoppers, and at worst, a easy avenue for laundering cash and financing criminality. Both means, they maintain little social utility.
Sheridan is a felony investigator with in depth expertise main cryptocurrency investigations and regulation enforcement efforts to fight monetary crime. He additionally has experience in designing packages for safety operations and aligning cryptocurrency enterprise operations with rising laws.
He joins FTI from Prime Belief, a supplier of monetary infrastructure APIs for fintech and digital asset corporations, the place he spent one 12 months as VP of regulatory affairs. Earlier than that, Sheridan spent over a decade with the US Secret Service, which has the twin duties of defending political figures and the nation’s monetary and fee methods.
Sheridan latterly served as assistant director within the workplace of investigations, the place he led the company’s world investigative mission to guard and safe the nation’s monetary infrastructure and fee methods. He additionally created and carried out the company’s first devoted digital asset investigative unit.
Sheridan has a grasp’s diploma in public administration and a bachelor’s diploma in felony justice administration from the College of Arizona.
“We proceed to see elevated demand for testifying specialists who perceive the technical and operational nuances that come up in blockchain and digital belongings disputes,” mentioned Sophie Ross, world head of FTI’s know-how division. “It is a quickly evolving space of specialization, and we’re dedicated to offering shoppers with the best customary of experience and excellence. We welcome Jeremy as an addition to our rising group, which incorporates a few of the world’s foremost blockchain and digital belongings specialists.”
Sheridan added, “Even with out substantial trade regulation or authorized priority, there was an amazing quantity of progress and funding in cryptocurrency and digital belongings. FTI Expertise is effectively positioned to help shoppers with mitigating their dangers throughout the trade whereas serving to them construct technique for market success regardless of regulatory uncertainty. I stay up for collaborating with the group and our shoppers to assist form the way forward for this thrilling house.”
FTI Consulting helps shoppers handle change, mitigate danger, and resolve disputes. The Washington, DC-based agency has greater than 7,600 individuals in 31 nations.
