Featured Background Screening Experts

Dan Stevens founded DDS Due Diligence Services in Brooklyn, NY in 1979. He ran the industry's first computer-to-computer criminal record search in 1985 and was a co-architect of NAPBS (now PBSA) in 2002-03. He has 47 years of experience in employment background screening, drug testing, and HR compliance.

I'm an accomplished leader that thrives on creating innovative solutions to clients problems. A strategic thinker that has helped evolve businesses to be market leaders in the the employment screening industry.Proud to be part of the leadership for the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) Europe Council

I am a Resume and Job Search Expert and the founder of JobsnProfiles, a platform dedicated to helping job seekers create ATS-friendly resumes and improve their chances of getting hired in competitive markets. With expertise in resume optimization, applicant tracking systems (ATS), and modern hiring trends, I provide practical, data-driven advice to job seekers across the United States. My work focuses on helping candidates craft impactful resumes, optimize keywords, and present measurable achievements that align with recruiter expectations. I regularly share insights on job search strategies, interview preparation, and career growth.

Mike Podesto is a Career and Job Search Expert and the Founder & CEO of Find My Profession, a leading reverse recruiting firm that manages full job searches for professionals and executives. As a pioneer of reverse recruiting, Mike has helped thousands of candidates navigate competitive hiring markets by combining targeted job sourcing, direct outreach to decision-makers, and data-driven job search strategies. His team works across industries including technology, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership, supporting clients from mid-level professionals to C-suite executives. Mike’s expertise spans job search strategy, resume and LinkedIn optimization, networking, recruiting, and hiring trends. He is known for his practical, results-oriented approach to the job search process, with a focus on helping candidates stand out in crowded applicant pools and secure interviews faster. Under his leadership, Find My Profession has earned over 1,000 five-star reviews and has been recognized for its innovative approach to job search management. The company’s model is built on real-world recruiting experience and has helped place candidates in roles ranging from $100K to $1M+ compensation packages. Mike regularly advises on topics including job market trends, hiring practices, interview strategy, and how candidates can position themselves effectively in today’s evolving employment landscape. His insights are especially relevant for professionals navigating career transitions, layoffs, or competitive executive-level searches.

I’m a lifesciences compliance strategist with a passion for building real-world, right-sized programs in fast-moving environments. With deep experience in pharma and medtech, I specialize in translating regulatory complexity into practical, actionable frameworks. I’ve spent 7+ years navigating the gray areas of compliance—from training physicians on industry expectations to building startup programs from the ground up. I believe compliance should be ethical, functional, and human-centered—and that culture is built through clarity, storytelling, and respect, not fear. Outside of policy and audits, I speak regularly on startup compliance and love turning “boring” topics into memorable moments. I'm here to connect, create, and contribute.

I serve as Chief Human Resources Officer at National Search Group, where I focus on aligning people strategy with long-term business performance. My work centers on building accountable, resilient cultures that support growth while maintaining clarity in structure, leadership expectations, and talent development. Over the years, I’ve worked closely with executive teams to strengthen performance management systems, improve workforce planning, and develop leadership capability across distributed and multicultural teams. I believe HR’s role extends beyond policies and processes. It is about designing systems that allow people to perform at their best while keeping organizations adaptable in fast-moving environments. Much of my focus is on translating strategy into practical execution. That includes refining hiring standards, strengthening retention frameworks, developing succession planning structures, and ensuring managers are equipped to lead with consistency and transparency. I’m particularly interested in how organizational clarity, accountability, and communication influence morale and long-term talent stability. I bring an operations-informed perspective to people leadership. Having worked across diverse industries and complex environments, I understand the balance between structure and flexibility, performance and culture, speed and sustainability. At its core, my work is about helping organizations build strong internal foundations because when people systems are intentional and aligned, performance follows.

I am the founder and CEO of LLM Authority Index and CiteWorks Studios, where I study how brands, experts, and companies are surfaced, cited, compared, recommended, or overlooked across AI systems, search engines, social platforms, and digital media. My current work focuses on AI search visibility, LLM-driven buyer behavior, digital authority, brand attribution, online reputation, consumer trust, and the sources that influence answers generated by platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. I develop research frameworks and datasets that examine AI recommendations, citation patterns, competitor inclusion, sentiment, source quality, prompt behavior, and the relationship between online evidence and buyer choice. For journalist requests, I can provide concise commentary, original data, cross-platform comparisons, trend analysis, and evidence-backed insights. Where useful, I compare responses across multiple AI systems and public datasets to identify areas of consensus, disagreement, bias, or emerging change. Before entering AI search and LLM visibility, I spent more than a decade building and leading digital marketing, publishing, affiliate, and content operations. I have managed strategy for more than 250 content creators across 30 geographic markets, overseen networks producing more than 2,000 articles per month, and helped scale affiliate and content businesses generating eight figures in commissions and more than $100 million in client-side revenue. I have also built and exited an affiliate business, developed seven-figure recurring revenue programs, and led growth initiatives across financial services, consumer products, online media, local services, and direct-response marketing. Earlier in my career, I practiced law and served as managing partner of a law firm focused on consumer protection and real estate litigation. My legal background continues to shape how I approach research: I evaluate competing claims, assess source quality, identify gaps in the evidence, and translate complex findings into clear, defensible commentary. I am especially useful for stories involving artificial intelligence, AI search, digital marketing, online reputation, consumer trust, search behavior, content strategy, affiliate marketing, online reviews, social proof, brand visibility, and the changing ways consumers discover and evaluate companies.

Mark Winter is a seasoned art certification expert, fine art appraiser, and expert witness, with over two decades of experience in the global art market. A former associate at Sotheby’s.com and a senior specialist at Art Authentication Experts, Inc. Since 2003, he has worked on cases spanning authentication, attribution, appraisal, and the investigation of forgery, theft, and rediscovery. Mark and his team regularly collaborate with journalists and media across print, digital, radio, and film, providing expert insight into art authentication, attribution, and market trends. Their commentary has been featured in investigative reports, documentaries, news segments, and podcasts worldwide. Offering rapid fact verification (often within 24–48 hours) and multilingual interviews in 21 languages, Mark supports timely stories with accuracy and depth.

I run Argus Intel, a business intelligence firm based in Ukraine. We verify counterparties before deals close: who actually owns a company, whether it appears on sanctions lists, what litigation and debts sit behind it, and whether its supply chain runs through russia. Most of this work happens in public records. Corporate registries, court decisions, procurement databases and sanctions lists are open in most jurisdictions. The difficulty is not access, but knowing which layers contradict each other. Topics I can speak to: — How sanctions screening fails in practice, usually one level below the direct counterparty — Why a clean company extract answers a far narrower question than buyers assume — Asset tracing when a debtor moves value across borders — What war-time compliance looks like from inside Ukraine, rather than from a policy paper — Red flags in ownership structures: nominees, shell layers, recent transfers of shares Clients are companies, investors and law firms in Ukraine, the EU, UK, Georgia and the UAE. We work with open sources only, and we publish our pricing, which is unusual in this industry.

David Santiago (@DavidSecurity) is a Certified Security Professional with over 15 years of operational experience in security management, risk assessment, and physical protection. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, David’s background includes securing U.S. embassies abroad and leading campus-wide security operations at a State Department-sponsored international school in Tunis, Tunisia, during the Arab Spring. Today, David works as a security consultant helping physical security integrators, SaaS platforms, and risk management firms improve their content marketing, thought leadership, and client engagement strategies. He specializes in creating industry-specific content—such as case studies, technical guides, and white papers—that informs decision-makers and drives growth. Based in Orlando, Florida, David actively follows the latest trends in physical security. He advises clients, contributes to leading industry publications, and regularly participates in conferences as a writer and subject matter expert.

I’m Theresa White, a Career Clarity Expert and 5x Certified Career Coach dedicated to helping professionals find purpose and direction in their careers. With a background in HR and a deep commitment to empowering others, I’ve guided hundreds of professionals to uncover fulfilling and impactful career paths. My work is more than just career coaching; I’m a clarity strategist, known for using my unique insights and proven methods to unlock the potential within my clients. Through my proprietary Career Clarity Formula, I deliver rapid, transformative results for clients who are tired of feeling stuck and uncertain about their professional futures. My approach combines practical tools, like the Sparketype® Assessment, with research-backed techniques to help people uncover their true strengths and aspirations. These “aha moments” are the core of my work, and they’re what allow my clients to move forward with confidence, clarity, and purpose. Through y program, I've transformed career coaching into a results-driven journey that brings clarity and purpose, while reducing the time traditionally spent on finding direction. This approach has empowered my clients to find careers they love, often with improvements in income, work-life balance, and overall satisfaction. As a leading voice in career clarity and career change, my work has been recognized by clients and industry leaders alike. I’ve seen firsthand the transformative effect that career clarity can have, especially for professionals in corporate roles who feel disconnected from their work. Helping them achieve a renewed sense of purpose and motivation has become a central focus of my work, and it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of what I do. If you’re a journalist covering career development, employee engagement, or women’s professional empowerment, my perspective might be of interest to your audience. I’m passionate about reshaping the field of career coaching with actionable, purpose-driven strategies that tap into people’s potential. Through my programs, speaking engagements, and client success stories, I’m redefining career clarity as a pathway to true fulfillment, purpose, and long-lasting success. I would be honored to share my insights and success stories with your audience, offering a fresh take on how people can achieve meaningful, sustainable career change.

Jasmine is a career expert with a background in nonprofit management and significant experience as a hiring manager and leader. She focuses on helping job seekers improve their professional resumes to highlight their unique skills and experience. Jasmine holds a B.S. in biochemistry and PhD in neuropharmacology and offers six years of specialized experience helping candidates navigate the complexities of today’s online job market, with a strong focus on resume optimization and effective self-presentation. She has had her work featured on LiveCareer’s resume builder and in these online publications: Fast Company, CNBC, Fortune, and more.

20 years of professional experience in the change management, organization development, HR generalist, and data analytics fields - as an external consultant and an internal practitioner.

I'm a serial entrepreneur responsible for founding numerous successful information technology brands, generating over half a billion in sales. My inspiration was founded on a very simple idea. I believe that accessing data should be easy. Our services solve many core issues around accessing vital data for business intelligence and giving consumers the tools they need to manage their personal information and privacy. One of my main projects, EntityCheck, is a platform that gives fast access to detailed business information. It allows users to search over 35 million companies and find important data such as business registrations, trademarks, court cases, UCC filings, and ownership details. EntityCheck helps businesses, investors, and researchers make better decisions by providing clear and reliable information about companies.

Brian Gestring is a forensic scientist, consultant, and educator with more than thirty years of experience. As founder of 4n6Services, he advises agencies across the country on forensic operations, policy, and complex casework. His career has spanned nearly every role in forensic science, from crime scene investigator to laboratory director, with expertise in crime scene reconstruction, DNA analysis, trace evidence, and forensic photography. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a Senior Crime Scene Analyst certified by the International Association for Identification, Brian has also held leadership roles in some of the nation’s largest crime laboratories and directed New York State’s forensic accreditation and DNA programs. Alongside consulting, Brian is committed to public education. He teaches courses in forensic science and now produces educational videos on YouTube and social media, making criminal justice and forensic science accessible to students, professionals, and the public.

Behavioral threat assessment and workplace violence prevention expert with 35+ years in public safety, consulting, and criminal justice education.

Tatiana Teppoeva, PhD is a former Microsoft AI scientist and U.S. patent holder helping HR leaders understand what their AI video screening tools miss about candidates. After 17 years at Microsoft and Boeing - including work that led to a U.S. patent in predictive AI cited by 32 other patents - she founded One Nonverbal Ecosystem, a consulting practice at the intersection of AI systems expertise and nonverbal intelligence. She holds a Master's in Data Science from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics. Her work addresses a specific and growing problem: AI video screening tools score vocal pace, eye contact, and speech patterns against a training baseline that systematically misreads neurodivergent candidates, non-native speakers, and top internal performers. As legal exposure around AI hiring discrimination accelerates - Mobley v. Workday, Kistler v. Eightfold, ACLU/EEOC charges against HireVue - HR teams need someone who understands both sides of the problem. Tatiana has built these systems from the inside, understands nonverbal human signals at expert level, and has navigated AI screening herself as a non-native speaker. That combination is rare. She is available to comment on AI hiring bias, AI video screening discrimination, neurodivergent candidates and AI tools, EEOC enforcement trends, and the arms race between AI screening and AI interview coaching tools. Featured in TIME, Business Insider, The AI Journal, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. tatianateppoeva.com/ai-hiring-guide

I’m Bob Simpson, Esq., CAMS, and I'm an expert in mortgage fraud, money laundering and financial crime, especially as it touches real estate and mortgage loans. For 25 years I ran the largest mortgage fraud investigation company in the US. I am a former mortgage loan officer, so I thoroughly understand the mortgage loan business in the US. I am a former practicing lawyer who focused on real estate fraud civil litigation. My work has included analyzing fraudulent loan transactions, advising financial institutions on BSA/AML compliance and risk, and helping lenders identify the real-world warning signs of fraud. I appeared on an episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes as a mortgage credit quality and loan fraud expert. If you have need of insights on these issues as they touch Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, or FHFA, or delinquencies in the US housing market, I will likely have an opinion that matters.