Margie leverages over 20 years of experience as an executive and forensic accountant, leading teams on complex financial crime and regulatory compliance matters for clients often in a crisis management capacity. She has led numerous high-profile engagements, including regulatory and court-appointed investigations, special committee investigations and matters involving reputational risk.
Margie has managed complex investigations and compliance matters across North America, Latin America, East Asia and the Caribbean, including forensic accounting investigations, fraud, corruption, and money laundering, asset misappropriation, cyber breach investigations, intellectual property theft, corporate and employee misconduct, insider risk program assessments and more. She advises on case strategy and scoping, investigative techniques, identification and preservation of evidence, interviews, financial analysis, asset-tracing and recovery. She has also led teams in executing numerous Anton Piller and other court orders, consisting of search and seizure of material defined within the orders for evidentiary purposes.
Prior to joining Kroll, Margie spent thirteen years with two Big Four accounting firms in forensics, where she was a crisis management leader at both firms. She also spent five years with an international consulting firm following its acquisition of Kroll Lindquist Avey’s Canadian Investigations and Disputes practice. Before joining Kroll Lindquist Avey in 2004, she spent over four years with a Big Four accounting firm initially in Forensics, followed by Audit and Assurance.
Margie holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from McMaster University and a diploma in investigative and forensic accounting from University of Toronto. Margie is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), a specialist in Investigative and Forensic Accounting (IFA) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.