David Meadows

David Meadows leads FTI Technology’s Canada and U.S. Midwest teams, specializing in cyber incident response data mining, e-discovery, data analytics and digital forensics. Mr. Meadows has assisted clients in the financial, healthcare, pharmaceutical, government, telecom, high-technology, energy and mining industries with all aspects of technology to analyze data for investigations and litigation.

With more than 25 years of experience in global investigations, civil litigation, class action litigation, multiparty litigation and regulatory matters, Mr. Meadows specializes in cybersecurity and data breach cases, including investigating breaches related to business email compromise. In response to these and other high-stakes incidents, he helps clients contain the cost and risk associated with data analysis, e-discovery and notifications. Utilizing his strong project management and technical expertise, Mr. Meadows has significant experience with complex data analysis, information planning, data preservation, data collection, data processing and data visualization. Additionally, he has a broad technology background, covering enterprise networking, software design and development and system implementations.

Prior to joining FTI Technology, Mr. Meadows served as a managing director at EY in the Forensic & Integrity Services practice, where he led large‐scale e-discovery, forensic data analytics, fraud triangle analytics and advanced technical implementations.

Relevant Experience:

• Led a large global data breach privacy review involving hundreds of compromised servers with more than 25 terabytes of data, with reporting requirements in numerous jurisdictions
• Led a global data breach data mining and personally identifiable information (“PII”) reporting project for a pharmaceutical company; assisted with the development of a custom software solution to download the impacted data from the dark web
• Led a data breach data mining project involving billions of data points in Salesforce data and Microsoft 365 email