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Biography: Joel Edward Gross

Joel Edward Gross is the founder and Principal of Risk Strategies International, LLC. Prior to forming the firm, he was the Director of Corporate Risk Services and Senior Investigator for the Investigative Group International, Inc., with offices in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles and London. His career spans military intelligence, law enforcement, corporate safety and security, claims, risk management, and insurance.

During the turbulent 1980s, Mr. Gross was retained as a consultant to identify, analyze and resolve critical issues requiring his specialized skills and broad-based knowledge. In that capacity he dealt with complex issues related to the protection of critical assets in many forms including intellectual capital, Key personnel, large estates, art and objects d'art, antiques, currency, bearer bonds, precious metals, and other valuable and critical assets in many different forms. He has also served as a Special Master to both plaintiff and defense counsel on copyright and proprietary information issues to avoid public disclosure of these assets.

Mr. Gross honed his defensive/offensive analytical and problem-solving skills over the last 25 years handling sensitive, critical and complex assignments requiring integrity and trust, for domestic and foreign, multi-national clients worldwide in such places as the U.S., Canada, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Nice, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Mexico, Latin America, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Israel, the Pacific Rim, and China.

He assisted the government of Poland with addressing information security issues relating to public key infrastructures and e-commerce which involved not only the Polish government and its banks, but 110 of its private banks and financial institutions. He was later invited back to conduct a two-day seminar dealing with information security and protecting intellectual capital for government and private banking executives and managers.

In 2003, he was a guest speaker at the National Cargo Security Council Seminar and Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he spoke before an international audience on port, transportation and cargo security risks. He has been a guest speaker at many other seminars on fraud, intellectual capital / trademark / proprietary information issues, commercial espionage, and other issues pertaining to risk.

An Honors Graduate, Seton Hall University, Mr. Gross served as Adjunct Professor for the Saturday Semester at Jersey City State College for approximately 10 years, where he taught security management, risk, and asset protection courses. Class members included members of the FBI, US Secret Service, US Navy and other military personnel, United Nations, and New Jersey and New York state and local law enforcement personnel, along with management and executive personnel from public and private entities.

Mr. Gross held private investigator licenses in New Jersey, New York, New Mexico and operated under other licenses in other states, and is a licensed multi-line high value claims adjuster in approximately 30 other states. His past and present professional certifications include Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Accredited Claims Adjuster (ACA), and Legal Principles Claims Specialist (LPCS).

Present and past professional memberships include the American Society for Industrial Security; American Society of Safety Engineers; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; INTELNET (International Intelligence Network); Computer Security Institute; Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; FBI ANSIR Program (Awareness of National Security Issues and Response); INFRAGARD, a national effort between the US government, FBI, private industry, and academic institutions regarding the security of U.S. Critical infrastructures; Rio Grande Intellectual Property Association; U.S. Navy Cryptologic Veterans Association; U.S. Navy League; International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association; National Fire Protection Association; National Safety Council; Investigative Reporters and Editors; and Advisory Board Member, Insurance Fraud Bureau, State of New Mexico.