Matthew Pachman

Matthew Pachman serves as Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at FTI Consulting. Mr. Pachman is responsible for overseeing the firm’s ethics and compliance programs globally. He also oversees all aspects of the Company’s risk management and compliance functions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting in 2012, Mr. Pachman served as the Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Altegrity, Inc., a position he held since 2010. Between 2004 and 2010, Mr. Pachman served as the Vice President of Compliance, Ethics and Business Practices at Freddie Mac. Previously, Mr. Pachman served as Chief Ethics Officer at MCI Inc. after being appointed to that position by the General Counsel in August 2002 following the revelation of fraud by former WorldCom executives. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Pachman served in several positions within MCI WorldCom's Law and Public Policy group.

Before joining MCI Inc., Mr. Pachman was a lawyer in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm O'Melveny & Myers, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Pachman earned a Juris Doctorate degree in 1991 from the University of Virginia where he was on the law review, and was a 1986 graduate of Wesleyan University, where he received a B.A. in English.

Mr. Pachman recently served as the Chair of the Ethics & Compliance Association (“ECA”) and as a Director of the Ethics Resource Center (“ERC”).

In 2019, Mr. Pachman received Compliance Week’s Top Minds Award. He was named a “Top Ethics and Compliance Officer” by the Ethisphere Institute on its on its 2009, 2010 and 2011 Attorneys Who Matter list, which recognizes leading legal professionals who have excelled in and made a significant contribution to the corporate compliance space. He is also a frequent speaker on issues related to building and managing ethics and compliance programs.