TANYA COOPER
Ms. Cooper is a trusted leader with reputation for fostering a culture of empowerment, ownership, integrity and accountability among teams of all sizes. She has more than 25 years of professional experience serving clients in the manufacturing, distribution, health care, information technology, entertainment, non-profit and private equity sectors. Ms. Cooper is a strategic and resourceful collaborator with a reputation for assisting companies through times of significant change, growth, and uncertainty brought about by mergers, acquisitions, financial hardship or investigations.
In addition to corporate experience, Ms. Cooper also served as a forensic accountant for the FBI. Her tenure included assignments in Los Angeles embedded in the cyber division contributing to investigations which encompassed Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), Ransomware, Romance, Investment and Ponzi Scheme as well as DarkNet Drug Operations utilizing crypto currency. Ms. Cooper was also selected to serve on the Miami International Corruption Squad which investigated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Kelptocracy, Money Laundering (Domestic and International) and Anti-Trust matters reaching to the highest levels of country and corporate governance. In her role at the FBI, she developed excellent working relationships with top prosecutors and law enforcement officials in multiple domestic and international jurisdictions.
Ms. Cooper also served on FBI Miami’s Evidence Response and Virtual Currency Response Teams. Ms. Cooper made extensive use of sophisticated investigative techniques while conducting numerous high-profile violent crimes, organized crime, financial crime, and money laundering investigations. She is also an expert witness in financial crime matters.
Ms. Cooper is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). She has also obtained intermediate level certifications in Chainalysis and crypto currency tracing.