Summary
Sarah Charles is a Senior Director at FTI Consulting with 14 years of experience leading complex domestic and international corporate investigations, specializing in fraud, due diligence, asset tracing, and litigation support. With a Master's in Criminal Justice (Investigative Techniques) and a decade-plus tenure at FTI, she combines hands-on open-source and big-data research with Palantir power-user skills to deliver actionable intelligence for law firms, financial institutions, and corporate clients. She is adept at blending legal analytics (LexisNexis, Westlaw, PACER, TLO) with fieldwork—source interviews and monitorships—to manage high-stakes, sensitive matters. Known for turning large, messy datasets into clear investigative narratives, she has a track record of recovering assets and supporting pre-IPO and regulatory risk assessments. Based in New York, she brings a rare mix of technical tooling fluency and courtroom-aware investigative judgment.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Criminal Justice; Investigative Techniques, Master of Arts, Criminal Justice; Investigative Techniques at John Jay College (CUNY)
Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary/Education, Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary/Education at University at Buffalo