The Infortal Investigative Team

Infortal's in-house managers and investigators have extensive experience working with clients on complex background investigations and are adept at interfacing with clients to address and respond to their most critical needs. Our investigators are available to make presentations to and conduct training with our clients' management teams and staff on a variety of relevant topics including business investigations, executive due diligence, pre-employment screening, protection of intellectual property and workplace violence.

Infortal also maintains an extensive network of top-level investigators and investigative firms both nationwide and internationally. This high caliber network enables Infortal to rapidly conduct international business investigations, including thorough in-country investigations to determine whether your trading partners are who they say they are and can produce or manufacture on a scalable basis for that region.

Infortal Worldwide consistently achieves an extremely high 99.9% degree of accuracy in pre-employment screening. We believe this standard of excellence is directly attributable to the caliber of our investigative team. Over 70% of Infortal's staff consists of degreed professionals and all team members must successfully master Infortal's rigorous in-house training and extensive quality control program. Our court investigators conduct court index searches, review case files and provide detailed reports on all criminal cases found. All of them must adhere to our strict quality controls and work closely with Infortal to ensure prompt service to our clients.

Our team of professionals includes individuals representing a wide-range of specialty skills:

• Experienced investigators
• Forensic accountants
• Computer security specialists
• Forensic document examiners
• Specialists in international security and investigations
• Specialists in armed protection
• Health professionals with expertise in forensic psychology
• Facility security specialists
• Surveillance and undercover specialists

Mr. Vakharia serves as a strategic advisor in the area of computer security on behalf of Infortal Worldwide.

Mr. Vakharia supports Infortal's Information Technology, Security & Privacy initiatives. Prior to joining Infortal, he held a variety of senior management positions at IT and INFOSEC. Previously, while at Altimum, Inc., Mr. Vakharia was responsible for strategic IT planning and security, supporting initiatives in Wi-Fi enterprise, BCP/DRP, establishing co-location centers and supporting UNIX and Windows on both hardware and software platforms. Prior to Altimum, Mr. Vakharia led a number of information technology teams at Uniteq Applications and Trimble Navigation Ltd. where he was chartered to integrate and operate IT technologies and services to the defense, engineering and manufacturing sectors. He was instrumental in developing and managing the business relationship with Dell Computer Corporation.

Mr. Vakharia has extensive experience in establishing and supporting IT departments as well as designing, installing and operating computing and networking solutions. He received his Post Graduate award in Business Management at Hertfordshire University UK, including corporate-sponsored executive management programs at Harrow College, UK. Mr. Vakharia has received recognition for his technical and managerial acumen, and is also a recipient of the coveted Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Etay Nir
Director of Technology Architecture

Mr. Nir serves as a strategic advisor in the area of computer security and technology architecture on behalf of Infortal Worldwide.

Mr. Nir currently serves as the Director of Technology Architecture for Net Helix, an e-business strategy and storage solutions provider for emerging and Fortune 1000 technology companies. In this role he is responsible for formulating the technology vision, direction, design and development for Net Helix's leading edge products. Prior to joining Net Helix, he was the Western Region Technical Account Manager with a multi-million dollar sales quota at Finjan Software, a leading anti-virus software company. In this strategic role, Mr. Nir was responsible for forging business relationships with Fortune 1000 accounts. Additionally, he has worked with the government sector including the DOE and the State of California. Earlier in his career, Mr. Nir served in a variety of IT and R&D roles with Netmor Applied Modeling Research and Comverse Future Technologies. During this period Mr. Nir was responsible for designing a multi-platform network with UNIX/Windows connectivity and for developing a server farm for large and complex mathematical calculations and graphical modeling.

Mr. Nir has extensive experience in designing and implementing development environments and networks within demanding environments. He has created Solaris and Linux development environments featuring Jumpstart servers, version control and integration environments. Mr. Nir is also well versed in 3D mathematical model simulation and 3D graphical modeling programming. In technology development, Mr. Nir is well versed in OOD, OOP in C++, MFC, Win32, Java and Delphi for Windows and Motif platforms, OSF and X-Windows for UNIX and Linux platforms.