Bradley Dizik is Executive Vice President and Guidepost’s Emerging Issues + Technology Practice Group Leader. Mr. Dizik, who is a member of the Washington D.C. and New York bars is regularly called on to advise board directors and executive officers in response to their most public and private crises. Clients frequently ask him to conduct sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations, advise on the development and evaluation of ethics, compliance, and information security programs, and forensically trace and recover assets including on the blockchain. He has also served as a court-appointed Receiver and had key roles on U.S. Department of Justice Monitorships.
Mr. Dizik conducts sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations generally, and anti-corruption and money-transfer license diligence for clients engaging in geographical locations with high corruption risk. He has extensive experience leading teams focused on identifying and collecting open source (OSINT) and human source (HUMINT) intelligence from obscure or anonymous subjects and difficult digital and geographical locations. He is also adept at developing customized artificial intelligence tools to support investigations and for clients to receive real time business intelligence about the activities of their adversaries. He is especially skilled in unmasking anonymous individuals on social media. He also helps clients with asset tracing and recovery particularly involving thefts on the blockchain.
Clients in crisis or attempting to manage their reputations regularly ask Mr. Dizik to oversee intelligence campaigns to counter propaganda or disparagement efforts by adversaries that includes among other things investigations, communication strategy, SEO, SEM, amplified messaging, social listening, and direct engagement.
Mr. Dizik advises clients on all aspects of ethics and compliance program evaluation and development, security reviews and design, institutional structure and culture, risk oversight, board and committee structure, board and executive leadership. He had significant leadership roles on the U.S. Department of Justice Monitorships of General Motors, Point72 Capital Management (formerly, SAC Capital), and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). Mr. Dizik also has extensive experience advising academic, faith-based, and other organizations in matters involving trauma as well as reviews of their security programs and related design. He is sensitive to the complex issues faced by victims of traumatic events and leads his investigations and assessments with independence and compassion. He played a key role in the investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s response to sexual abuse where he led the development of remediation recommendations. Mr. Dizik also advised the Board of Regents for the University of Michigan with implementing recommended remediation efforts in the aftermath of sexual misconduct findings against a former Provost. He has also served as a court-appointed Receiver where he investigated, traced, and recovered millions worth of real property and exotic assets.
Mr. Dizik advises clients on all aspects of emerging issues and technology involving digital healthcare, digital assets, cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain infrastructure, financial technology, creative control design using data and technology, artificial intelligence, algorithmic design and validation, data governance and protection, data forensics, privacy, and cybersecurity. He frequently advises clients on best practices for securing virtual projects and digital assets including cybersecurity programs and frameworks, digital asset custody options, and digital asset theft mitigation controls. He also advises healthcare clients, including covered entities and business associates, regarding compliance with HIPAA/HITECH and other federal and state privacy, security, and incident response compliance requirements. Mr. Dizik is regularly asked to lead SOC2, HIPAA/HITECH and HITRUST readiness examinations and remediation efforts. He regularly provides HIPAA security rule risk assessments, registers and remediation plans. Mr. Dizik also provides anti-kickback and Stark Act compliance advice including fair market valuations for MSO fees. Additionally, Mr. Dizik serves as an internal auditor for a virtual healthcare client.
Mr. Dizik is frequently asked by clients to conduct sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations involving cybercrimes, digital assets, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), intellectual property, unfair competition and anti-competitive practices, financial crimes, defamation, wire fraud, sexual abuse and harassment, mass violence including school shootings, health care fraud, government program fraud, False Claims Act (FCA), cybersecurity, privacy including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), government contracting fraud, securities and commodities regulations, financial integrity, trade sanctions, accounting fraud, tax fraud, embezzlement, public corruption, and institutional integrity matters.
Prior Legal Work
Prior to joining Guidepost, Mr. Dizik was an associate attorney in an AmLaw 20 international law firm’s white-collar investigations and financial institutions regulatory practice and co-manager of its financial regulatory reform working group. Prior to that, he served as a research consultant to the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a 501(c)(3) research organization dedicated to improving the regulation of US capital markets.
Mr. Dizik had brief stints in the SEC’s Offices of International Affairs and Ethics Counsel, where he focused on the international enforcement of the federal securities laws, provided technical assistance to foreign regulators, and advised on the development of the Commission’s insider trading compliance program.
Community Engagement
He is a member of the Detroit Jewish Federation’s Local Agency Planning and Business Practices Committee overseeing the Federation’s nearly two dozen agencies and is a member of the Jewish Federation of North America’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and Security Task Force.
Mr. Dizik’s pro bono practice includes advising survivors of sexual abuse and related misconduct and other forms of trauma on best practice approaches to prevention, early identification and response. He also provides pro bono investigations and asset tracing for victims of cybercrime involving the theft of NFTs, cryptocurrency and other forms of digital and crypto assets.
Education
Mr. Dizik is a recipient of Michigan State University’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award from where he holds a J.D., cum laude and a B.A. in Political Theory and a specialization in Political Economy from its James Madison College. Additionally, he holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center which recognized him for “extraordinary academic performance” in International White-Collar Crime. He received the Federal Bar Association’s Edward H. Rakow Scholarship Award for academic excellence in corporate and securities law.
Integrity Monitorships and Fiduciary Services
Mr. Dizik’s experience includes leadership roles on the following receivership and federal integrity monitorships:
Ethics and Compliance Programs
Mr. Dizik assists clients with the development of ethics and compliance programs; codes of ethical conduct and related roll outs including systems thinking initiatives involving cross-functional and cross-organizational ethics and compliance champions; training programs; security and safety assessments; and compliance monitoring programs leveraging complex data generally.
Investigations
Mr. Dizik is regularly called upon to lead anti-corruption and anti-bribery investigations:
Crisis Strategy and Response
Bradley Dizik is Executive Vice President and Guidepost’s Emerging Issues + Technology Practice Group Leader. Mr. Dizik, who is a member of the Washington D.C. and New York bars is regularly called on to advise board directors and executive officers in response to their most public and private crises. Clients frequently ask him to conduct sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations, advise on the development and evaluation of ethics, compliance, and information security programs, and forensically trace and recover assets including on the blockchain. He has also served as a court-appointed Receiver and had key roles on U.S. Department of Justice Monitorships.
Mr. Dizik conducts sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations generally, and anti-corruption and money-transfer license diligence for clients engaging in geographical locations with high corruption risk. He has extensive experience leading teams focused on identifying and collecting open source (OSINT) and human source (HUMINT) intelligence from obscure or anonymous subjects and difficult digital and geographical locations. He is also adept at developing customized artificial intelligence tools to support investigations and for clients to receive real time business intelligence about the activities of their adversaries. He is especially skilled in unmasking anonymous individuals on social media. He also helps clients with asset tracing and recovery particularly involving thefts on the blockchain.
Clients in crisis or attempting to manage their reputations regularly ask Mr. Dizik to oversee intelligence campaigns to counter propaganda or disparagement efforts by adversaries that includes among other things investigations, communication strategy, SEO, SEM, amplified messaging, social listening, and direct engagement.
Mr. Dizik advises clients on all aspects of ethics and compliance program evaluation and development, security reviews and design, institutional structure and culture, risk oversight, board and committee structure, board and executive leadership. He had significant leadership roles on the U.S. Department of Justice Monitorships of General Motors, Point72 Capital Management (formerly, SAC Capital), and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). Mr. Dizik also has extensive experience advising academic, faith-based, and other organizations in matters involving trauma as well as reviews of their security programs and related design. He is sensitive to the complex issues faced by victims of traumatic events and leads his investigations and assessments with independence and compassion. He played a key role in the investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s response to sexual abuse where he led the development of remediation recommendations. Mr. Dizik also advised the Board of Regents for the University of Michigan with implementing recommended remediation efforts in the aftermath of sexual misconduct findings against a former Provost. He has also served as a court-appointed Receiver where he investigated, traced, and recovered millions worth of real property and exotic assets.
Mr. Dizik advises clients on all aspects of emerging issues and technology involving digital healthcare, digital assets, cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain infrastructure, financial technology, creative control design using data and technology, artificial intelligence, algorithmic design and validation, data governance and protection, data forensics, privacy, and cybersecurity. He frequently advises clients on best practices for securing virtual projects and digital assets including cybersecurity programs and frameworks, digital asset custody options, and digital asset theft mitigation controls. He also advises healthcare clients, including covered entities and business associates, regarding compliance with HIPAA/HITECH and other federal and state privacy, security, and incident response compliance requirements. Mr. Dizik is regularly asked to lead SOC2, HIPAA/HITECH and HITRUST readiness examinations and remediation efforts. He regularly provides HIPAA security rule risk assessments, registers and remediation plans. Mr. Dizik also provides anti-kickback and Stark Act compliance advice including fair market valuations for MSO fees. Additionally, Mr. Dizik serves as an internal auditor for a virtual healthcare client.
Mr. Dizik is frequently asked by clients to conduct sensitive, complex, and cross-border investigations involving cybercrimes, digital assets, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), intellectual property, unfair competition and anti-competitive practices, financial crimes, defamation, wire fraud, sexual abuse and harassment, mass violence including school shootings, health care fraud, government program fraud, False Claims Act (FCA), cybersecurity, privacy including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), government contracting fraud, securities and commodities regulations, financial integrity, trade sanctions, accounting fraud, tax fraud, embezzlement, public corruption, and institutional integrity matters.
Prior Legal Work
Prior to joining Guidepost, Mr. Dizik was an associate attorney in an AmLaw 20 international law firm’s white-collar investigations and financial institutions regulatory practice and co-manager of its financial regulatory reform working group. Prior to that, he served as a research consultant to the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a 501(c)(3) research organization dedicated to improving the regulation of US capital markets.
Mr. Dizik had brief stints in the SEC’s Offices of International Affairs and Ethics Counsel, where he focused on the international enforcement of the federal securities laws, provided technical assistance to foreign regulators, and advised on the development of the Commission’s insider trading compliance program.
Community Engagement
He is a member of the Detroit Jewish Federation’s Local Agency Planning and Business Practices Committee overseeing the Federation’s nearly two dozen agencies and is a member of the Jewish Federation of North America’s National Young Leadership Cabinet and Security Task Force.
Mr. Dizik’s pro bono practice includes advising survivors of sexual abuse and related misconduct and other forms of trauma on best practice approaches to prevention, early identification and response. He also provides pro bono investigations and asset tracing for victims of cybercrime involving the theft of NFTs, cryptocurrency and other forms of digital and crypto assets.
Education
Mr. Dizik is a recipient of Michigan State University’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award from where he holds a J.D., cum laude and a B.A. in Political Theory and a specialization in Political Economy from its James Madison College. Additionally, he holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center which recognized him for “extraordinary academic performance” in International White-Collar Crime. He received the Federal Bar Association’s Edward H. Rakow Scholarship Award for academic excellence in corporate and securities law.
Integrity Monitorships and Fiduciary Services
Mr. Dizik’s experience includes leadership roles on the following receivership and federal integrity monitorships:
Ethics and Compliance Programs
Mr. Dizik assists clients with the development of ethics and compliance programs; codes of ethical conduct and related roll outs including systems thinking initiatives involving cross-functional and cross-organizational ethics and compliance champions; training programs; security and safety assessments; and compliance monitoring programs leveraging complex data generally.
Investigations
Mr. Dizik is regularly called upon to lead anti-corruption and anti-bribery investigations:
Crisis Strategy and Response