Event Speakers

Ryan Hubbs, CFE, CIA, CCEP, CCSA, PHR
Senior Manager, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services at Ernst & Young

Ryan Hubbs is a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice in Houston, Texas. Ryan has over fifteen years of experience managing corporate investigations, forensic audits and compliance initiatives. Ryan has conducted hundreds of sensitive internal engagements concerning fraud, corruption, and employee related issues. Ryan also has extensive experience with organization-wide anti-fraud programs and measures, corporate investigation programs and protocols, and ethics and compliance programs.

Throughout his career, Ryan has audited and consulted on internal controls that could result in the fraud, theft, or misuse of corporate assets and sensitive information. Ryan has experience with vendor and suppliers investigations, anti-bribery and corruption, data analytics, 3rd party due diligence and shell companies, conflicts of interest, human resources and benefits, and contract compliance. Ryan has also conducted numerous fraud risk assessments and is a skilled interviewer; having conducted thousands of investigative and audit related interviews over his career.

Ryan is an award winning author and speaker on fraud, ethics and compliance topics. He is a recipient of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Hubbard Award and Baker Award. He is an active and highly sought after presenter on anti-fraud topics and is one of the ACFE’s highest-rated speakers. Ryan has provided specific and general antifraud training and investigative techniques to anti-fraud and compliance professionals in numerous Fortune 500 and multi-national organizations, as well as several Local, State and Federal Government Agencies.

In 2014, Mr. Hubbs published “Shell Games, Investigating shell companies and understanding their roles in international fraud” in the Fraud Magazine. This article served as a precursor to anonymous company revelations that would dominate the anti-fraud, compliance and law enforcement professions in late 2015 and continuing almost daily throughout 2016. In 2016. this article was highlighted in Compliance Week by FCPA attorney Tom Fox with a call to action for organizations to evaluate and assess their exposure to anonymous companies and enhance 3rd part due diligence programs to address this increasing risk.

William McMurrey
Partner, Lackey Hershman, L.L.P.

William McMurrey is a Partner at Lackey Hershman, L.L.P. serving as counsel to individual and corporate clients as counsel in complex criminal, civil and regulatory matters. His practice focuses on antitrust, banking, false claims, healthcare, securities and tax matters, and any other business-related investigation and prosecution. He discretely directs internal investigations for corporate clients before and during government inquiries and whistleblower qui tam actions.

Prior to Lackey Hershman, Mr. McMurrey was a career prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice, having first served as a trial attorney with the department’s Antitrust Division and subsequently as an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas. He was the healthcare fraud coordinator for the department allocating federal and state investigative and prosecutorial recourses. As a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division, he conducted numerous grand jury investigations and tried price-fixing and market allocation cases. As an assistant United States attorney in the Major Fraud Section, Mr. McMurrey prosecuted and served as attorney-in-charge for a wide variety of federal economic criminal cases, including healthcare, securities, bank and tax matters. He conducted all phases of parallel proceedings, grand jury, trial and appellate work and handled very sensitive investigations and high-profile prosecutions.