Ozgur Vural

Oz Vural is a recognized leader at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data analytics and enterprise digital transformation. With more than 25 years of experience, Oz has built a distinguished record of driving complex technology modernization initiatives and deploying advanced AI and analytics solutions that create measurable business value. His work spans the banking, financial services and national security sectors, where he has consistently helped clients unlock growth, create value and mitigate risk at scale.

Oz brings deep technical fluency across emerging technologies, including generative AI, agentic systems and blockchain. As a committed advocate for responsible innovation, he has designed and led incubator programs that enable VC-backed startups to scale effectively. He serves as a trusted advisor to institutional investors — including pension funds, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms — regularly briefing senior stakeholders on emerging and disruptive technologies and their strategic implications.

Oz co-leads FTI Consulting’s Financial Services Transformation and Defense & National Security solutions, which are designed to support private equity sponsors, corporate leadership teams and government-facing businesses at critical inflection points, including transactions, transformation and operational performance improvement. His experience spans defense platforms, mission technologies, intelligence and security-focused businesses, advanced communications and the broader defense industrial base.

A sought-after speaker and thought leader, Oz is regularly invited to address executive and practitioner audiences on the strategic implications of AI, emerging technology and national security. He has delivered keynotes and led panels at forums spanning defense technology, private capital and digital transformation — including the AGS Frontier Forum and programs hosted by the Alchemist Accelerator — offering perspectives on how AI is reshaping industries, institutions and the defense industrial base. He also contributes actively to the national security community as a board member of the Alliance for Global Security (“AGS”) and a member of its International Advisory Council.

Prior to his corporate advisory career, Oz applied his entrepreneurial and analytical expertise in service of national security. He partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community to analyze online networks and disrupt terrorism and disinformation operations. The analytics firm he co-built, ConStrat — powered by a proprietary social networking analytics platform — was recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top 20 Government Services Company in both 2011 and 2012.

Relevant Experience:

• Engaged by a private equity-owned billion-dollar loan origination and servicing client to redefine their digital strategy and modernize technology platforms across the full loan lifecycle, from ideation through launch
• Engaged by a global financial services firm to develop a future-state technology blueprint for its financial crime and AML program, including system implementation planning and post-implementation assessment
• Engaged by a large U.S. investment bank to assess risk and compliance architecture, controls and governance for a digital credit card product launch
• Engaged by a leading U.S. digital asset bank to remediate and mature their entire risk management systems, including crypto tracing and transaction monitoring capabilities
• Designed a three-year digital transformation roadmap for a leading wealth management firm to establish a highly automated, AI-enabled compliance and risk management ecosystem, achieving 70% automation in fraud detection and prevention
• Engaged by a large U.S. investment bank to help build its fully digital, advanced analytics-driven credit card product line
• Conducted an independent fraud risk management and financial crime compliance program review of a cryptocurrency subsidiarity for a large U.S.-based fintech company in response to a consent order issued by the New York Department of Financial Services