Robert Brunner

Senior Managing Director - Technology

FTI Consulting

Robert Brunner is a senior managing director in the FTI Technology segment and is based in San Francisco. Mr. Brunner leads FTI’s Financial and Enterprise Data Analytics practice nationally, where he is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of collection and analysis of financial, transactional and operational data. Mr. Brunner specializes in complex, data-intensive cases, including class action suits, government / regulatory investigations, financial / accounting investigations, bankruptcies and other cases requiring complex modeling or sharing of information. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of complex financial, economic, transactional, and document/image management systems. 

Mr. Brunner is an expert in the areas of financial database design and management, complex data modeling, claims management and administration, and electronic discovery. He has testified in the areas of electronic discovery, discovery management, financial fraud, and methodology development. He has served clients in the financial services, manufacturing, government, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

Mr. Brunner’s most notable engagements include: Assisting the US Government in a $160 billion beach of trust class action; Assisting a major US retailer in identifying, collecting, and analyzing over 400 million employee-related records for a 4-year period of time for an employment class action; Assisting one the country’s largest mutual fund complexes in response to SEC allegations of late-trading and market-timing; Assisting one of the largest US retailers in identifying and analyzing over 1 billion records of operational data in response to a DOJ investigation of retailer’s business practices; Developing a data warehouse for one of the largest civil litigations ever filed in California; Development of sophisticated financial and data models for a Fortune 100 bank in one of the largest class action suits brought under California’s Unfair Competition statute; and Design and implementation of a claims processing system for a Fortune 500 company.

Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Brunner was partner-in-charge of the Class Action/Complex Data Services group for KPMG in the United States. Before joining KPMG, he was a partner in Andersen Worldwide, where he led the Class Action Services and Complex Data Management practices for the firm, the Financial Advisory Services practice in the Pacific Northwest, and the West Region’s Complex Data Analysis and Management Solutions team. Mr. Brunner led the development of Andersen’s Electronic Data Discovery and Legal Information Consulting practice methodologies.

Mr. Brunner has administered several mathematics and computer science courses for the University of California at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He is a member of the Association for Image and Information Management (AIIM), the American Records Management Association (ARMA) and the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Brian Ong

Senior Managing Director, Forensic and Litigation Consulting

FTI Consulting

Brian Ong is a senior managing director in the FTI Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment and is based in New York. Mr. Ong is a senior business adviser with over 20 years of providing accounting, financial analysis, business valuation and corporate transactional advisory services to a variety of clients including numerous corporate clients, corporate boards of directors, “C-level” executives, in-house legal counsel and external legal counsel. Mr. Ong brings to his clients an array of services designed to help organizations and individuals address critical issues, mitigate risk, enhance corporate governance and improve performance.

Among his areas of professional expertise, Mr. Ong directs large-scale financial investigative assignments including forensic accounting investigations, financial reporting investigations, financial fraud investigations and white-collar crime investigations. His background as an accountant includes performing financial statement audits of publicly and privately held companies, and providing merger, acquisition and divestiture due diligence services and bankruptcy/corporate recovery related services to numerous corporate clients.

Mr. Ong has considerable experience in transactional related analysis, including corporate transactions involving working capital adjustments, post-closing balance sheet adjustments and “earn out” calculations. Mr. Ong’s has professional experience with merger and acquisition-related disputes arising from corporate transactions both in formal civil litigation proceedings and binding arbitration proceedings. He routinely serves as both an advisor to companies involved in transactional related disputes and as a neutral accounting arbiter adjudicating such disputes.

Mr. Ong’s litigation and dispute advisory services experience includes assisting domestic and international clients in high-stakes commercial disputes.  He assists in-house and external counsel in matters involving accounting analysis and the economic and financial analysis of lost profits/lost earnings resulting from a variety of civil claims including breach of contract, business interference/interruption, intellectual property infringement and trade dress/trade secret matters, lender liability, personal injury, wrongful termination and wrongful death, legal and accounting malpractice and mass tort litigation. He has extensive experience in damage quantification and analysis, including serving as an expert witness and as a privileged consultant. Mr. Ong has provided testimony as an expert witness in both litigation and arbitration/mediation proceedings.

Mr. Ong brings both public accounting and professional economic and financial advisory services experience to his clients. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Ong was a partner at KPMG LLP, an internationally recognized public accounting firm. Before joining KPMG, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, another international public accounting firm.

Mr. Ong is an adjunct professor at New York University where he instructs post-graduate accounting related courses.  He has been a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Houston and Oklahoma State University. He regularly instructs on the topics of fraud detection and prevention, financial statement analysis and the financial analysts’ role in dispute resolution and quantification of economic losses. Mr. Ong holds a B.B.A. in accounting from Abilene Christian University in Texas and was a cum laude graduate. He previously served as a board member of the litigation services subcommittee of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.