Tony Alvizu

Tony Alvizu is a Managing Director in the Risk & Investigations practice of FTI Consulting and is based in Chicago. Mr. Alvizu has more than 30 years’ experience delivering reactive and preventative compliance, ethics and anti-corruption services and conducting a myriad of diverse, complex fraud and forensic investigations.

Mr. Alvizu has assisted companies assess, develop and enhance ethics and compliance and data privacy programs, often prompted by regulators through orders and agreements or under the monitorship of an external assessor. He has strengthened clients’ policies, processes, controls and training to facilitate compliance with laws and regulations, including U.S. healthcare laws and international and local data privacy obligations. Additionally, he has evaluated, developed and enhanced companies’ use of hotline and case management systems and drafted corresponding policies and procedures.

Mr. Alvizu possesses deep experience developing third-party risk management (“TPRM”) and due diligence programs and workflows and systematizing workflows into technology platforms. He is part of the team that developed and administers FTI Consulting’s TPRM technology solution. In addition, Mr. Alvizu has assisted boards of directors and outside legal counsel perform large, complex international Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and corporate internal investigations.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Alvizu was a senior director with a global restructuring and business advisory firm, an associate managing director with a global risk consulting firm and a senior manager with a Big Four accounting firm. Mr. Alvizu started his career as a financial investigator with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Relevant Experience:

• Assisted a global chemical company’s ethics and compliance department remediate disclosed material weaknesses related to its ethics hotline; implemented hotline system functionality enhancements; drafted and enhanced its whistleblower reporting, case management and investigation policies and procedures
• Assisted a global technology company improve and test controls regarding its data privacy and TPRM programs to include drafting policy, developing training, responding to regulator and assessor requests and evaluating U.S. and global data privacy and security regulations to assist the client with developing policies and procedures to comply with global regulations
• Assisted a foreign-based global medical device company subject to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) action and a U.S. Department of Justice False Claims Act investigation to establish and enhance programs, processes and policies to foster compliance with various laws and regulations regarding transparency, sales and marketing, grants and research, as well as compliance with the FCPA, FDA and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• Served as the Interim Director of Global Compliance Investigations for a publicly traded international medical devices company transitioning from a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“DPA”) to a Corporate Integrity Agreement (“CIA”) with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services