Tony Dearsley

Computer Forensics Manager, Legal Technologies

Tony Dearsley joined Kroll Ontrack in January 2006, prior to which he had spent 5 years at Vogon International.  Tony heads up the Computer Forensics team at Kroll Ontrack, in this role he specialises in sophisticated and complex computer investigations.

Tony has extensive experience in a wide variety of investigations, particularly e-mail and Internet abuse, data theft and forgeries.  He is trained and certified in data recovery and forensic computer examination techniques by various organisations and has worked on major projects involving classification and examination of terabytes of data for disclosure and corporate governance matters.  Within this experience he has also presented evidence as both a specialist and expert witness on many occasions. He has specialised in the forensic examination of computers and the production of their evidence in court since 1993.

Previously Tony spent over 24 years in HM Customs & Excise, the last 15 years of which he investigated serious crime.  Tony was instrumental in designing, writing and lecturing on the Forensic Computing Foundation course run at Cranfield University (Royal Military College of Science) and was also a member of the Training Sub-Committee of the Joint Agency Forensic Computing Group (SFO, HM Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue).