Joe Looby is a senior managing director in the FTI Technology segment, delivering consulting expertise and advanced technology for investigations, antitrust and complex litigation matters, and is based in New York. He has provided expert testimony and consulting on economic and technology issues and appeared before regulatory agencies on diverse matters. Mr. Looby has spoken and written extensively on litigation technology, electronic evidence and computer forensics. Joe is a former U.S. Navy JAG Lieutenant, an experienced regulator, and published software developer.
Mr. Looby is a contributing author and lecturer at the Sedona Conference, for projects including: Search & Retrieval Sciences; and, E-Discovery Quality Methods & Metrics. Joe has also participated in studies on search technology effectiveness, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and DOD Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA). His industry experience includes advertising, banking, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceutical, securities, technology, and staffing sectors.
Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Looby provided forensic technology leadership to Deloitte’s National Audit Technology Steering Committee, on the implementation of SAS 99 to detect fraud in financial statement audits; he trained a team of more than 50 forensic technologists and accountants on the FASTech data interrogation approach; and, he led Deloitte’s nationally deployed FASTech teams to perform forensic procedures for high-risk billion-dollar market cap audit clients.
Prior to that, Mr. Looby was associate counsel for New York State’s Environmental Enforcement Agency. There he prosecuted air, water and solid waste enforcement actions and served as liaison with EPA’s Enforcement Steering Committee, the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), DOJ, NOAA, DOI and Native Tribes. Mr. Looby also served as a. U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Lieutenant where he prosecuted and defended service members at courts-martial and administrative discharge boards.
Mr. Looby is the patented co-inventor of the “system, software and method for examining a database in a forensic accounting environment.” He is credited with developing the FASTech Profiler, a proprietary software tool that creates interactive maps to the GL (called "profiles") and VISTA, a software program used by hundreds of professionals to track the detection and resolution of environmental enforcement violations. Joe has a B.A. in economics from Fordham University and a J.D. from Union University School of Law. He is a certified fraud examiner, a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut.