Robert Bird is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with 15 years of experience in technology consulting. He advises legal teams on e-discovery, digital forensics, analytics and data strategy connected to governmental investigations, cyber investigations and complex litigation. Robert has led global teams for clients within the financial, technology, energy, construction, and healthcare industries.

Managing Director leading projects in discovery, digital forensics, analytics and data strategy connected to complex litigation, as well as international corporate and governmental investigations.Develops solutions with corporate clients and outside counsel to mitigate risks, reduce costs, and meet deadlines. By blending his engineering expertise and legal industry experience, his solutions will apply best practices and data-driven insights using the most effective technology available. His current interests include the application of Active Learning technologies to quickly uncover fact patterns in investigations, the re-use of attorney work product for corporate clients in serial and/or concurrent litigation to promote consistency and reduce risk/costs, and connecting structured and unstructured data (to streamline due diligence reviews designed to validate that the accounting system matches the supporting documentation).

Principal consultant for 50+ active matters with 10+ corporate clients & law firms totaling $30 MM in annual revenue.Manage global consulting teams of 10-20 consultants executing data discovery projects for the banking, technology, and pharmaceutical industries relating to fraud, financial investigations, and product liability.Taught FTI Technology segment’s SQL course in America and Australia.Consultant: Sept. 2007 | Senior Consultant: Mar. 2009 | Director: Mar. 2012 | Senior Director: Mar. 2014

Lead Systems Engineer for Intel-based chipsets across global teams; Top Ranked Engineer for outstanding impact.