WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RosettiStarr, a global intelligence, investigations, and security services firm, today announced it has added senior congressional investigator Douglas S. Pasternak to its staff.

Pasternak for 16 years has led and managed high-profile and complex investigations and oversight efforts for three separate committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Prior to joining Congress, he was an investigative reporter for nearly two decades at U.S. News & World Report magazine, where he was nominated for two National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry’s highest honor, and at NBC Nightly News, where he won numerous investigative honors, including two Emmy Awards for investigations in the business and financial reporting category.

Pasternak will join the RosettiStarr team as Senior Director of Investigations.

Michael Starr, RosettiStarr’s Chief Operating Officer, said on Pasternak’s hiring, “Our team just got a lot stronger with the addition of Doug Pasternak, a seasoned veteran in the world of investigations. Doug brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to RosettiStarr, making us even better equipped to tackle complex investigations while also helping our clients navigate the congressional investigative process.”

“I have always built my investigations on a pillar of solid facts that lead to careful and complete analysis and clear and concise investigative findings,” said Pasternak. “I look forward to applying the same skills I’ve used on Capitol Hill and as a journalist to help RosettiStarr’s clients resolve issues of concern, including problems that affect their reputation and bottom line.”

Most recently, Pasternak was Staff Director of the U.S. Senate’s preeminent oversight subcommittee, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), part of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. There he oversaw bipartisan investigations into contractor mismanagement of military housing, immigration detention and medical service problems, and criminal justice issues.

Prior to serving as Staff Director at PSI, he was Director of Investigations & Oversight for the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, where he led the premiere 18-month congressional probe into problems with the design, development, and certification of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft that resulted 346 deaths after two crashes. His probe included a review of more than 600,000 pages of records and dozens of critical interviews, which led to bipartisan aviation safety reform legislation signed into law in December 2020.

Pasternak began work on Capitol Hill in 2006, becoming Staff Director and Chief Investigator of the House Science, Space and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations & Oversight. The committee has broad oversight jurisdiction over all non-Department of Defense federally funded research and development efforts across the entire U.S. government. There he led and managed dozens of investigations regarding science, technology, cybersecurity, homeland security, environmental public health, and other issues. He also conducted oversight of the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology and other federal agencies.

Prior to joining Congress, Pasternak spent nearly two decades as an investigative reporter and investigative producer, primarily focused on national security issues, at U.S. News & World Report magazine and NBC Nightly News, where he conducted hidden camera and other investigations. His reporting and investigations exposed issues of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement at multiple federal agencies, and has led to investigations by Congress and the Offices of Inspector General at the Department of Defense and Department of Justice.

Pasternak has a B.A. in political science from American University. He has taken graduate National Security Studies classes at the University of Maryland at College Park and studied in Israel and Poland. Over the years, he has lectured on congressional oversight and investigative journalism to hundreds of university students, journalists, government officials and congressional colleagues. He has also been a guest on multiple news shows and radio programs discussing his investigations, including on CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, NPR, and FOX News and documentaries on the Discovery Channel and PBS’s FRONTLINE.

About RosettiStarr

RosettiStarr provides intelligence, investigations, corporate risk and cyber security services to attorneys, management teams and investors worldwide. The firm regularly services corporate enterprises with global operations and major private equity firms and hedge funds with a combined $650 billion in assets under management. RosettiStarr has worked with over 60 of the AmLaw Top 100 Law Firms and has had successful engagements in over 50 countries. For more information, visit www.rosettistarr.com.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RosettiStarr—an international intelligence, investigations, and security services firm—today announced the expansion of its human source intelligence practice to meet its clients’ growing need for more comprehensive, insightful information and analysis to better inform their decision making.

“Finding and conducting interviews with well-placed sources has always been a critical component to the success of our investigations, whether it’s for transactional diligence, business intelligence, crisis management, or litigation purposes,” said Michael Starr, co-founder and COO of the firm. “As part of our continued growth and commitment to exceptional service, we are excited to announce that Managing Directors Jeff Smith and Joe Andrews will co-lead this effort.”

“Combining Jeff’s experience as a veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist—deeply probing institutional and corporate malfeasance and personal misconduct—with Joe’s extensive background in the intelligence field, working for both government and private industry, gives RosettiStarr a distinct advantage as we continue to grow our firm,” Starr said.

Smith is an expert in fraud and corruption investigations. He spent more than two decades at the Washington Post, including as the national investigative editor, a foreign correspondent, and a national security correspondent. More recently, he served for 10 years as the managing editor for national security at the Center for Public Integrity.

Andrews brings a wealth of experience in global investigations, national security, and strategic advisory work, including as a senior officer in the Intelligence Community. He has advised C-suite executives and heads of state, and his overseas assignments and client engagements have spanned countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

“Our expanded team is well-positioned to deliver the human element—the firsthand observations and recollections from the people most familiar with the matter at hand,” said Smith. “We’ve got long experience at finding the right people, extracting what we need to learn, and confirming everything we’ve heard. All the successful investigations I’ve overseen have depended on getting information that others missed or couldn’t reach. These are challenges our team knows how to overcome.”

“Deep public records research and interviews with primary sources are a powerful combination,” said Andrews. “Human intelligence allows us to fill information gaps and answer tough questions. It is also vital to our diligence services when assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an investment target or management team, the reputational risks of a business partner, or the past performance of a C-suite candidate.”

The team includes experienced investigators, journalists, former intelligence professionals, financial specialists, attorneys, and other experts. RosettiStarr interviews can help explain past and future complex events, identify potential threats, and provide key context and details.

Each engagement is customized and flexible to deliver discretely the most relevant and actionable information, for the boardroom, the courtroom, or the deal team.

Already, RosettiStarr has conducted thousands of interviews and reputational inquiries with executives, employees, analysts, subject matter experts, regulators, government officials, and other sources—in more than 15 languages across more than 45 countries. These efforts have been undertaken on behalf of institutional investors with over $650 billion in global AUM, more than 60 of the AmLaw Top 100 law firms, and in support of corporations, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.

To learn more about RosettiStarr’s offerings, visit us at www.rosettistarr.com.

About RosettiStarr

RosettiStarr provides cutting-edge intelligence, investigations, corporate risk and cyber security services to management teams, attorneys, and investors worldwide. The firm provides strategic intelligence, due diligence, and risk management support, which gives clients the confidence to make more informed decisions and take bold actions. RosettiStarr operates on the principles of trust, discretion, and personalized client service.

Industry innovators join forces to deliver unparalleled comprehensive cyber protection

OTTAWA, ON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Field Effect, a global cyber security company specializing in intelligence-grade protection for small and medium organizations, today announced a strategic partnership with RosettiStarr, an international intelligence, investigations, and security services company. This partnership delivers best-in-class cyber security services, providing RosettiStarr customers with advanced protection against cyber threats across the globe.

“Cyber security risks are embedded in everything we do online, and it is imperative that businesses enhance their security postures to meet the dynamic threat cyber criminals pose to critical systems and sensitive data,” said Kip Edwards, Managing Director and General Counsel of RosettiStarr. “By combining Field Effect’s deep technical proficiency with RosettiStarr’s expertise in investigations, intelligence, and security, we can now deliver full-spectrum incident response services to businesses and law firms managing breaches along with a best-in-class security solution enabling our clients to monitor their threat surface and prevent attacks in the first place.”

RosettiStarr will leverage a security solution called Covalence, Field Effect’s managed detection and response solution (MDR). Covalence is the only such tool built and designed from the ground up that makes it easy for small and medium businesses to get comprehensive, sophisticated protection from a single platform. Its unique strength is that it sees into every aspect of a business’ threat surface and aggregates the data from multiple security events into simple, actionable steps, making it fast and easy to prevent and resolve threats. RosettiStarr has worked with Field Effect to develop a first of its kind instance of this powerful application designed to help institutional investors implement a cyber security standard across their portfolio investments while also giving them real-time situational awareness into their holdings’ threat surfaces.

“We built Covalence to ensure organizations of all sizes have access to powerful cyber security protection,” said Shri Kalyanasundaram, Chief Growth Officer at Field Effect. “By joining forces with RosettiStarr, which is known for its world-class intelligence and security solutions, we’ve created a comprehensive suite of security services that will help protect their customers at the time they need it most.”

RosettiStarr will also work with Field Effect to help clients respond to cyber incidents worldwide and is now offering a comprehensive pre-transactional cyber maturity assessment for clients’ prospective investments. The partnership between Field Effect and RosettiStarr reflects their ongoing commitment to strengthening the cyber resilience of people and organizations around the world.

To learn more about RosettiStarr and Field Effect offerings, visit: RosettiStarr.com/practices.

Field Effect believes organizations of all sizes deserve powerful cyber security solutions to protect them. The company’s threat detection, monitoring, training and compliance products and services are the results of years of research and development by the brightest talents in the cyber security industry. For more information, visit fieldeffect.com.

RosettiStarr provides cutting-edge intelligence, investigations, corporate risk and cyber security services to management teams, attorneys, and investors worldwide. RosettiStarr services institutional investors with over $550 billion under management and corporate enterprises with operations around the world. RosettiStarr has worked with over 60 of the AmLaw Top 100 Law Firms and has had successful engagements in 46 countries. The company provides strategic intelligence, due diligence, and risk management support which gives portfolio managers, attorneys, and corporate executive teams confidence to make more informed decisions and take bold actions.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RosettiStarr, a leading intelligence and investigations firm based in Washington, D.C., today announced it has added Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist R. Jeffrey Smith as a managing director. He will help lead strategic engagements for the firm’s clients around the world.

An expert in fraud and corruption investigations, Smith spent more than two decades at the Washington Post where he was national investigative editor, national security correspondent, national investigative correspondent and the newspaper’s bureau chief in Rome. He most recently served as the managing editor for national security at the highly regarded Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest non-profit, nonpartisan investigative news organizations.

Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist with others at the Post. He also is a National Headliner Award winner, a recipient of Associated Press Media Editors Awards for Investigative Reporting and Public Service, an EPPY Award winner, a Seldon Ring Award winner for Investigative Reporting and winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, as well as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Smith holds a B.A. in political science and public policy from Duke University and a M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism. A veteran global investigator with contacts around the world, he has overseen or conducted investigations in more than 50 countries. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a fellow multiple times at Stanford University, and at New York University, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and the East-West Center in Hawaii.

“Jeff Smith is one of the most talented, well-respected investigative journalists in Washington and an expert in fraud and corruption investigations,” said RosettiStarr President and CEO Richard Rosetti.  “We are thrilled to welcome him to our firm.”

“I am excited to be joining RosettiStarr, where I will be surrounded by many smart and talented individuals who care deeply about, and actually celebrate, the discovery of factual information in the world of commerce, policy, and politics, and who also understand the power of such discoveries,” said Smith. “The firm excels at uncovering what its clients need to know to produce great outcomes.”

“Jeff Smith’s breadth of experience, global contacts, and aptitude for distilling noise into meaningful insights adds a new dimension to our team,” said RosettiStarr Chief Operating Officer Michael Starr. “His arrival will propel us into 2022 with a sharp focus on what matters—delivering impactful intelligence to our clients.”

About RosettiStarr

RosettiStarr provides intelligence, investigations, corporate risk and cyber security services to attorneys, management teams and investors worldwide. The firm regularly services corporate enterprises with global operations and major private equity firms and hedge funds with a combined $650 billion in assets under management. RosettiStarr has worked with over 60 of the AmLaw Top 100 Law Firms and has had successful engagements in 46 countries. For more information, visit www.rosettistarr.com.