Patrick L. Grobbel

Before joining Ankura, Patrick was a shareholder for the data analytics start-up company KonaAI and exited after a successful transaction. KonaAI is an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven investigative and transaction monitoring solution during his tenure and leadership. He was an active contributor in significantly increasing revenue and improving the overall customer success delivery to the general counsel, chief compliance, and chief audit executives.

Prior to KonaAI, Patrick was a partner in the data and insights practice at a consulting firm that provides risk, investigation, and financial advisory services and a managing director in the data and analytics practice at a leading global expert firm.

Patrick demonstrates expertise assisting clients requiring responses to government regulatory scrutiny, resulting in the need for data-driven solutions, supporting forensic accounting, monitorships, and anti-money laundering investigations.

He has been engaged in dozens of internal, regulatory, and complex litigation matters, both domestic and international. Patrick is experienced in developing project work plans and budgets, providing project and engagement management support for complex cases, and executing industry best practices.

He is proficient in initial data assessment, preservation, extraction, transformation, and reporting for both unstructured and structured data sources.

He has supported the investigations of allegations of misconduct affecting pharmaceutical, life sciences, broker-dealers, construction, insurance, and financial services, and has conducted broad dispute resolution in several diverse disciplines, such as AI-driven compliance monitoring, digital forensics, structured data discovery, cybersecurity, and blockchain investigations.