Andy Carpenter

Andy is a senior consultant in the Ogier Regulatory Consulting team. He is an experienced fraud / financial Investigator and is also a digital forensics expert specialising in crypto-fraud, open-source intelligence, AML and crypto investigations / prosecutions.

Background and experience

Andy is an expert in the use of NUIX, Graykey/Axiom, Cellebrite, XRY, FTK and other digital forensics, blockchain analysis and e-discovery tools. He has spent the last 20 years in both public sector law enforcement and private sector consultancy firms managing complex and technical cases. After completing a number of ICA qualifications, he shifted his focus to AML/KYC and source of wealth controls, especially with regards to virtual assets.

He is passionate about anti-money laundering, blockchain, crypto, fintech, virtual assets and emerging technologies.

Andy has an array of professional qualifications including the ICA International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering, ICA Specialist Certificate in Financial Crime Risk and New Technology, passing the UK National Investigators Exam and the UK Criminal Investigators Development Programme.

Other qualifications include:

• 7Safe Certified Digital Forensics Data Collection Technician
• Nuix Big Data Analyst Certification
• Control-F Mobile Phone Forensics
• Member of the Home Office Digital Forensics Specialists Sub-Group.
• Member of the Cyber-security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP)
• Member of the Forensic and Policing Services Association