Jules B. Kroll

I, Jules B. Kroll, am Chairman and co-founder of K2 Global Consulting LLC and Chairman and CEO of Kroll Bond Ratings, Inc. I am the founder of Kroll Inc (NASDAQ: KROL) and am the acknowledged founder of the modern investigations, intelligence, and security industry. In 1972, he established Kroll Associates Inc. as a consultant to corporate purchasing departments, and in doing so, created the prototype for a new breed of professional services firm dedicated to mitigating risk. The firm ultimately reached annual revenues of $1 billion in 2008. By employing former prosecutors, law enforcement officials, journalists, and academics who utilized sophisticated fact-finding techniques to address decision-makers’ needs for accurate information, I established investigations and risk consulting as valuable corporate services. In the early 1990s, I gained worldwide renown for my firm’s success in searching for assets hidden by Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Since 1997, my vision of providing clients with a full spectrum of risk consulting services propelled the firm’s growth as a public company, in particular, its acquisition of employee screening, forensic accounting, data recovery, and corporate advisory and restructuring firms. This vision was fully realized in July 2004 when Kroll was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE:MMC) for $1.9 billion. I was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Cornell University in 2003 and was honored with the U.S. Entrepreneurial Award by British American Business Inc. in 2002. I received a B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1963 and an LL.B degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966. I was admitted to the New York Bar in 1967 and began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. I currently serve as Chairman of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. I am a former member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University and Board of Trustees of Cornell University and also served as the Chairman of the Georgetown Law Center Board of Visitors.