Tommy Helsby
Chairman, Investigations, Kroll
Since joining Kroll in 1981, Tommy Helsby has been at the heart of the firm’s growth from a single office in New York to more than 55 offices around the world. In his first ten years, he helped found and develop the firm’s core due diligence business, and managed many of the corporate contest projects for which Kroll became well known in the 1980s. He has been based in the London office since 1991, becoming European Chairman in 1999 and Chairman in 2010.
He plays a strategic role both for the firm and in advising many of its key clients, in dispute work and in corporate transactions. He has established a particular niche in reputation-related engagements, particularly on behalf of entrepreneurial clients from emerging markets whose antecedents and track record lack the transparency which Western markets expect.