With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Blake specializes in providing forensic technology services relating to fraud; intellectual property theft; financial, software and commercial litigation (including cross-border); eDiscovery; financial, tax, privacy and other regulatory compliance and matters, including monitorships, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, FATCA, FCPA, GDPR and CPRA; corporate risk management and mitigation; and enterprise data management and strategy. 

Mr. Blake utilizes a variety of technical and business skills within his subject-matter expertise of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data sets, systems and infrastructure, including ETL, data mining and analysis, visualization and reporting and the creation of customized technology solutions. He has also attested within affidavits and prepared to testify to his expertise within applicable matters.

Additionally, Mr. Blake serves as a leader of complex and global matters, primarily within the banking and financial services industry. Some of his noteworthy matters include leading a highly-sensitive and multi-jurisdictional FATCA-related investigation and regulatory compliance of two international bank holding companies; managing the litigation support of a multidistrict matter within the mortgage-backed security crisis for one of the largest domestic banks; leading the data analytics within a Ponzi scheme investigation and related litigation of an international financial services company placed under receivership; leading the technical aspect, including data analysis, systems and related compliance, of two domestic monitorships related to the use of disaster relief funds and related reconstruction efforts; and managing the data analysis within an investigation of the high frequency trading and related compliance of brokerage operations at a domestic financial services company.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Blake worked as a Managing Director within Berkeley Research Group’s Global Investigations practice, and held similar positions at Navigant Consulting (now Ankura Consulting) and FTI Consulting.

Mr. Blake earned a BBA from Miami University of Ohio and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.