Featured Speaker: Jason Zirkle, CFE

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Over the years, one of the most common requests I receive is for help locating speakers for an upcoming event. I’m always happy to provide suggestions, so I’d like to spotlight speakers with whom you might not be familiar, provide you with the names of the sessions they’re qualified to teach and possibly give you ideas of different types of training opportunities you can offer your members.

The first speaker I will feature is Jason Zirkle, CFE, who recently joined the ACFE as Training Director. Mr. Zirkle teaches ACFE training courses and assists in updating the ACFE training curriculum.

Jason Zirkle, CFE

Jason Zirkle, CFE

After serving eight years in the U.S. Army as an intelligence analyst, Mr. Zirkle joined the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), where he served as a criminal intelligence analyst for seven years. At DPS, he served as a subject matter expert on financial crime investigations. He worked alongside Texas Rangers and DPS Special Agents, supporting numerous criminal investigations, including complex fraud and money laundering schemes, public corruption, embezzling, identity theft, illegal gambling, and other white-collar crimes. Many of the investigations he worked ended in criminal convictions for the defendants and seizures of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit funds. Mr. Zirkle also provided financial expertise to non-financial criminal investigations at DPS, including multiple murder investigations, human trafficking, narcotics, and missing persons. He has testified in multiple trials and grand juries. He also worked many joint-federal investigations with federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, IRS-CI, DEA, USSS, DHS, and USPS.

Here are some of the courses Jason Zirkle is qualified to teach:

  • Bribery and Corruption

  • Conducting Internal investigations

  • Effective Report Writing

  • Government Fraud

  • Influential and Persuasive Presentation Techniques

  • Legal Elements of Fraud Examination

  • Money Laundering Schemes: Identifying and Investigating

  • Principles of Fraud Examination

  • Tracing and Recovering Fraud Losses

  • Understanding the Mindset of a Fraudster

Whether your event is an hour or two, or a day or two, Jason Zirkle is available for training events. For more information on Mr. Zirkle’s availability, you may contact him directly at JZirkle@ACFE.com.