Rich is a Senior Advisor with CSLG. He has over 40 years of legal and consulting experience in both the government and private sectors providing assistance to management and boards of companies interested in maintaining the highest levels of business integrity and is a recognized authority on ethics and compliance.
Rich is the CEO and Founder of IDPL Consulting, LLC, which provides executive coaching, consulting and training for directors and C-suite executives. His private practice, Girgenti Law, provides legal compliance, internal and regulatory investigative services. Rich is also a former Vice-Chairman of K2 Integrity, a leading investigative, risk and compliance consulting firm.
Previously, Rich held leadership positions at KPMG LLP, where he served as a member of the board of directors, the U.S. and Americas leader of KPMG’s Forensic Advisory Services, and a member of KPMG’s Global Forensic Advisory Board. More recently, Rich served as a special advisor to the Office of the Chairman.
At KPMG, Rich worked for major national and international clients conducting internal and regulatory investigations, providing crisis management services, helping assess, design and implement internal controls and compliance programs, including in the area of anti-bribery and corruption. He also has extensive experience serving as an Independent Integrity Monitor in a variety of industries for companies that have entered into plea and settlement agreements with the government regulators and enforcement agencies.
Rich is a frequent author and lecturer who has co-authored two books: The New Era of Regulatory Enforcement: A Comprehensive Guide for Raising the Bar to Manage Risk (McGraw-Hill, April 2016) and Managing the Risk of Fraud and Misconduct: Meeting the Challenges of a Global, Regulated and Digital Environment (McGraw-Hill, March 2011).
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Rich obtained his J.D. from Georgetown Law where he was the Articles Editor for the American Criminal Law Review and his B.A. from Seton Hall University where he was a scholarship debater on the University’s National Brownson Debate Team.
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