Executive Background Screening & Enhanced Due Diligence
Ensure Trust and Transparency at the Highest Levels
Reputational Review, C-Suite Level Executive & Board Members Background Screening, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
The consequences of poor leadership decisions can be severe – from reputational risks to undisclosed conflicts of interest, compliance breaches and potential exposure to lawsuits due to unqualified or unvetted leaders, and more – proper due diligence at the highest levels requires a deeper dive.
At i-fact@nalysis, we help safeguard your organization with thorough, multi-layered background reviews that identify potential red flags before they become problems. Our team of experts provides the insights you need to protect your company’s future. Our Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) builds upon a Standard Due Diligence (SDD) background by introducing additional measures to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of senior executive level candidates.
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The Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) process includes a more thorough vetting of executives being considered for senior leadership roles within an organization. This type of screening goes beyond standard due diligence to ensure that candidates for executive and board positions meet the highest standards of integrity, ethical behavior, moral character, honesty, competence, and reliability.
Enhanced Due Diligence
The Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) process includes a more thorough vetting of executives being considered for senior leadership roles within an organization.
This type of screening goes beyond standard due diligence to ensure that candidates for executive and board positions meet the highest standards of integrity, ethical behavior, moral character, honesty, competence, and reliability.
i-fact@nalysis’ Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) is an advanced risk assessment process that delivers a reputational assessment of the executive.
The process involves gathering and analyzing open-source public records, social media, online presence/ profiles, and activities combined with local human intelligence and source inquiries. This interface ensures all phases of the background screening process come together to identify reputational risks associated with the executive’s professional profile and personal behavior.
EDD includes everything in our Standard Due Diligence (SDD) checklist, plus the following:
- Expanded litigation research and on-site retrieval of physical documents for in-depth review and analysis of litigation pertaining to the executive and affiliated corporate entities.
- Offshore Leaks - Databases (Panama Papers, Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, etc.)
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-- Undisclosed Corporate Affiliations
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-- Undisclosed Political Associations
- Deep Web Research (part of the Internet that is not indexes by search engines, i.e., social media pages and profiles, and web forums that require registration for viewing content)
- Political and religious extremism (social media, blogs, chats, Internet content, and media)
- Extremist ideologies (racism, interethnic and inter-religious hatred)
- Archived media, social media, websites, and Internet content
- Social media and online behavior, which is not morally, ideologically, or politically in accordance with established written (legal and constitutional) and non-written norms of social order.
Standard Due Diligence
The Standard Due Diligence (SDD) is a screening process we recommend conducting for all new hires. The following is included:
- Standard practice applied to all candidates
- Regulatory Records
- Global Compliance
- Watch List and Sanction Databases
- Litigation Research – including civil, criminal and bankruptcy / insolvency records
- Identification of Professional Associations
- Corporate Affiliations (shareholdings and directorships)
- Confirmation of Higher Educational Claims
- Assessment of Professional Licenses