CRA is pleased to announce that Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley have joined the company as vice presidents in the Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice.
“I am pleased to welcome Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley to the team,” said CRA President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Maleh. “They each have more than 20 years of experience in international consulting. In addition to their wealth of experience in risk management and running complex investigations, they bring expertise in strategic planning, team building, and business development.”
“Both Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley share our team’s client-centric approach and commitment to high performance,” said Peter Nolan, CRA Vice President and the leader of the Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice. “I look forward to working with them as we expand our team’s capabilities in the United Kingdom and the region more broadly.”
Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Ferguson worked at a global risk management consultancy in London for nearly 20 years, serving as an executive board member. While there, he established and led a strategic intelligence business for C-suite clients and built multidisciplinary teams of global investigators and advisors. His responsibilities included account management, strategy development and implementation, and international business development.
Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Rowley was the CEO of a global risk management consultancy in London where he implemented a new enterprise strategy, established new service lines, and led the firm through a period of significant growth in revenue and shareholder value. From 2010 to 2019, he served as a managing director and orchestrated the opening of offices in Washington, DC and New York. In all, he oversaw hundreds of complex investigations, with a focus on helping U.S. clients to identify and mitigate regulatory and reputational risks in frontier markets.
Mr. Ferguson has a BA in economics and public policy from Leeds Beckett University. Mr. Rowley has a BA in international relations from Exeter University.
About CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice
CRA’s global Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice provides integrated, expertise-led solutions designed to assist clients to better understand, address and resolve their most complex and critical legal and business challenges. Our team of multidisciplinary professionals, drawn from government and industry, focuses on helping governments, clients, and counsel mitigate and manage legal, reputational, and commercial risk; resolve complex legal and business disputes; and make better and more well-informed decisions by surfacing facts, providing relevant context, and leveraging deep subject matter expertise and analytic tool sets globally.
