Liam A. Ferguson is a President of the Guidepost Solutions Data + Technology Advisory practice and a nationally recognized expert in electronic discovery, structured data analytics, and cyber-forensic investigations. With more than 30 years of distinguished professional experience, Mr. Ferguson advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, and government entities on risk mitigation, corporate compliance, and complex regulatory enforcement matters. He specializes in the forensic acquisition, normalization, and deep-dive analysis of massive, transactional, financial, and operational records to uncover fraud, ensure information governance, and protect business integrity.
Mr. Ferguson possesses technical mastery in transactional database design, multi-tiered architecture, complex data modeling, and database encryption. His strategic approach to data-driven cybersecurity focuses on transforming raw data into actionable security intelligence. He designs and implements scalable data collection and normalization frameworks that apply universal security taxonomies, enabling organizations to unify their search capabilities and streamline audits. By integrating internal business data with external threat intelligence, he helps clients establish continuous monitoring protocols, automate repetitive defensive tasks, and move from reactive posture to proactive anomaly tracking.
Mr. Ferguson also provides advisory services to corporations and governments regarding all aspects of criminal and regulatory enforcement matters. His expertise includes:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) + Sanctions: Designing sophisticated transaction monitoring systems and rules-based statistical analyses to detect suspicious behavior across international and domestic banking networks.
- Anti-Corruption + FCPA Compliance: Constructing comprehensive third-party compliance management systems, performing due diligence reviews, and cleansing multi-million-record historical data warehouses.
- Internal Controls + Fraud Deterrence: Integrating sophisticated analytics into internal audit functions under the COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology) framework, allowing audit teams to focus on high-risk, high-exposure areas and establish automated fraud-deterrence platforms.
A trusted partner to legal counsel, Mr. Ferguson has a proven track record of supporting high-stakes civil litigation, class-action defense, and regulatory proceedings. He is highly skilled in serving as a testifying expert, preparing attorney work products, executing complex statistical sampling, and designing scalable document and database retrieval systems. He has provided formal expert witness testimony regarding database security, IT infrastructure, and data searchability across multiple jurisdictions, including the California Superior Court and the Illinois Circuit Court.