Mark E. Pearson CFE

Mark E. Pearson is a Principal in the Deloitte Forensic practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. Mark is a MBA, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and has more than fifteen years of experience conducting and managing a variety of fraud, forensic accounting and other dispute related engagements. He has performed numerous fraud examinations and forensic accounting assignments, various accounting restatement engagements, complex damages computations and other litigation support engagements for clients in a wide variety of industries. Mark has assisted companies in performing a variety of supply chain investigations and proactive supply chain-wide fraud risk assessment processes. Procedures performed included the interviewing key members of leadership regarding their perception of the organization’s fraud risks, as well as hosting a variety of fraud-related brainstorming workshops for mid-level managers who implement the company’s operating and accounting processes. Mark also helped to perform a risk-based forensic examination process for a Fortune 500 company upon its vendor community and historical vendor spend and has led multiple investigations into various allegations including inappropriate supplier allowances, unauthorized discount prices to customers, adjustments for damage claims, procurement kickback schemes, and asset misappropriation.