In this session, co-founders Chris McCall and Tod McDonald will introduce and demonstrate Valid8 Investigations.
The audience will learn how to mitigate manual pain points and solve for the quality, speed, and cost of preparing evidentiary financial data for an investigation through an innovative application of machine learning. Chris and Tod will use examples from real-world case studies of Valid8 to illustrate how professionals can handle greater complexity and scale beyond manual transcription restrictions.
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Valid8 Financial, Inc.
CEO and Cofounder
[email protected]
(303) 362-3161
As CEO and co-founder, Chris leads VALID8’s vision, strategy, and execution. Before co-founding VALID8, Chris led marketing as Chief Marketing Officer for NexGen Storage, where he built a world-class marketing team around strategic market analysis and product management.
Chris started his career as an electrical engineer designing systems for Boeing 747’s. Identifying the need to modernize the engineering design data infrastructure, he revamped how system design software could leverage large datasets more effectively. Passionate about extracting value from big data systems, Chris took on several product roles with startups acquired by F500 companies HP and SanDisk
Valid8 Financial, Inc.
Cofounder
[email protected]
(206) 920-1144
Tod McDonald, CPA, CIRA, is the co-founder of Valid8 Financial. Early in his career, Tod was an auditor with Ernst & Young and has spent decades navigating complex financial situations, including leading an investigation that unraveled a $200 million real estate investment Ponzi scheme in Washington State. Motivated by this experience, he co-founded Valid8 Financial to build a Verified Financial Intelligence solution to expedite data prep, eliminate sample risk and improve the speed and quality of rendering a professional opinion on complex financial cases.