About me
Geoff Winkler is a founding member of American Fiduciary Services LLC based in Portland, Oregon and Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Winkler leads a team of legal and financial industry professionals who specialize in managing complex investigations, forensic accounting, fiduciary and insolvency services, and securities litigation. He has extensive experience testifying as an expert witness and has served as CEO, CFO, and CRO in dozens of State and District Court receiverships, corporate monitorships, chapter eleven bankruptcies, and in other cases as a fiduciary and insolvency expert. Mr. Winkler has lectured extensively on the topics of fraud, anti-money laundering, business law, fiduciary duty, and business ethics and has published dozens of articles on topics ranging from elder care abuse to SEC reforms and managing expert witnesses to fraud investigations and forensic accounting.
Mr. Winkler’s experience includes leadership in large and complex fraud investigations and forensic accounting efforts in numerous industries including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, capital leases, consumer services and retail sales. One large private fraud investigation involved the misappropriation of funds from dozens of high-profile, high net worth individuals by their investment advisor. Mr. Winkler and his team analyzed millions of banking transactions to determine the extent of the fraud and calculate damages. In another complex damage and suitability analysis case involving Real Estate Investment Trusts, Mr. Winkler oversaw the review of over 200,000 transactions and 6,000,000 data points over five years to determine if appropriate suitability guidelines were being followed, resulting in quantifying the financial damages to the transacting institution and state regulators.
Among his numerous regulatory enforcement engagements, Mr. Winkler led a receivership team in an SEC action against a large operator of retirement care facilities in 34 states that was accused of defrauding over 12,000 investors and creditors for over $2 billion. The restructuring effort resulted in spinoffs and a profitable sale, with most investors saw interest in addition to their capital investments returned to them.
Mr. Winkler is involved in several professional organizations, include the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers, which he serves as an officer a
nd board member, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Turnaround Management Association.
Prior to forming American Fiduciary Services, Mr. Winkler was a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal, a global consulting firm, the Director of Fraud & Forensic Investigations at Bates Group, a litigation consulting firm, and the Director of Case Management for Grassmueck Group, a fiduciary and insolvency services firm.
