Richard Kershaw

Current

Principal at LECG

Past

Vice President at Hill & Associates Ltd
General Manager, Operations Division at Diebold Enterprise Security Systems APAC
Representative Director at Hill & Associates Japan KK

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Education

School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London
University of Oxford
University of Oxford

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Recommended

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Connections

168 connections

Industry

Security and Investigations

Websites

HTCIA Asia Pacific Chapter

Richard Kershaw’s Summary

Forensic technology and investigations professional with extensive experience in Asia. Currently head of legal technology for Asia. Specialise in computer forensic strategies for international regulatory matters, investigations, and cross border civil litigation, including aspects of privacy laws and safe harbour requirements.

First Vice President, High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) APAC Chapter. Teaching credentials include US University of Virginia Law School on cross-border e-discovery, UK University of Glamorgan MSc (Computer Forensics) and US National College of District Attorneys on computer evidence. Provided MCLE and CPD accredited courses for numerous local and international law firms on computer forensics and e-discovery.

Regularly speak and write on forensics and e-discovery issues, including cover story of November 2007 Issue of Asian Counsel on electronic discovery and co-author of upcoming article on forensics in cloud computing for US legal journal.

Speaking engagements in 2009 include Council of International Investigators AGM, panel moderator at 2009 Hong Kong data forensics and e-discovery conference, OSAC Hong Kong, ASIS APAC annual conference, and the Beijing anti-corruption conference.

Recent engagements have included Hong Kong SFC insider trading investigation, processing and hosting data for a Hong Kong ICAC related investigation, managing collection of data in six jurisdictions for a fraud investigation, US FCPA investigations in Japan and Indonesia, determining discovery scope across global enterprise infrastructure for an antitrust matter, and planning and conducting the collection of nearly 10TB of data in China for a US Securities litigation. Work product has data source/ESI mapping for defensible e-discovery scope.

Certified Information Security Manager, Certified BS 7799 Lead Auditor, Certified Compliance Officer, Class I PGDip in Japanese language, MA University of Oxford

Richard Kershaw’s Specialties:

computer forensic investigations, electronic discovery, cybercrime, information security, data protection, information security-related compliance, IT risk management, information risk, physical security,operations management, project management

Richard Kershaw’s Experience

Principal

LECG

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; XPRT; Management Consulting industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Vice President

Hill & Associates Ltd

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)
General Manager, Operations Division

Diebold Enterprise Security Systems APAC

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)
Representative Director

Hill & Associates Japan KK

(Security and Investigations industry)

October 2003 — June 2006 (2 years 9 months)