Ryan has experience in forensic accounting, auditing, compliance and monitoring, remediation, and litigation support matters. He has led investigations and white-collar defense matters involving a range of topics including revenue recognition, earnings management, EPS manipulation, and pull-forward sales. He has also led DOJ-appointed independent compliance auditor and multiple SEC-appointed independent compliance consultant engagements in the automotive, financial services, and life sciences industries.
Prior to joining AlixPartners, Ryan was a managing director in the compliance and forensic accounting practices at a global consulting firm. He began his career as a financial statement and internal control auditor at Deloitte.
Key Engagements:
- Led multiple audit committee investigations into whistleblower allegations of accounting fraud relating to revenue recognition, earnings management, and disclosure issues.
- Supported a publicly traded technology company in preparing a restatement for seven previously issued quarterly financial statements and the corresponding annual financial statements by leading the technical accounting analyses relating to the proper accounting for transactions associated with improper sales practices, serving as a primary contributor to providing comprehensive auditor support to facilitate a timely audit of the restatement, and supporting the company's finance and accounting functions and interim management through a period of finance leadership transition.
- Assisted a pre-Series A technology company prepare historical financial results and advising the Company as it develops its finance and accounting functions.
- Led an SEC-appointed Independent Compliance Consultant matter involving the accounting for product recalls under ASC 450 and related disclosure issues.
- Assisted counsel in defending the former CFO of a consumer products company in an SEC fraud matter involving various alleged earnings management schemes including bill-and-hold transactions.
- Performed an audit committee investigation into short seller allegations of accounting fraud relating to earnings management, revenue recognition, and expense issues.
- Assisted counsel in defending the former CFO of an information technology company in an SEC litigation matter relating to revenue recognition and internal control issues.
- Led the DOJ-appointed Independent Compliance Auditor team for a Big Three automotive company responsible for auditing the Company's technical emissions compliance and ethics and compliance programs.
- Led five SEC-appointed Independent Compliance Consultant matters evaluating the electronic communications compliance programs of broker dealers and investment advisors in response to SEC settlements relating to off-channel communications.
- Assisted a Japanese materials manufacturing company in testing the remediation of its quality compliance program in the context of a U.S. government investigation of a large-scale data integrity fraud.