Advisory Director
David Foley (ACAS, ACFS)
David is one of TIAA’s dynamic Corporate Directors having joined the company from an external fraud risk practice. David leads our Risk and Advisory division, which comprises of the Anti-Crime, Security Management and Digital Assurance departments, supporting organisations nationally in enhancing governance and risk management to operate effectively, efficiently and meet regulatory requirements where required....
Read More About DavidDavid is one of TIAA’s dynamic Corporate Directors having joined the company from an external fraud risk practice. David leads our Risk and Advisory division, which comprises of the Anti-Crime, Security Management and Digital Assurance departments, supporting organisations nationally in enhancing governance and risk management to operate effectively, efficiently and meet regulatory requirements where required.
David has extensive experience with working across multiple sectors including FTSE 100 & 250 companies, healthcare, social housing, charities and wider not-for-profit sectors.. He has led on many high profile and sensitive assignments with clients, whereby he acts as a trusted advisor, who is renowned for ‘pragmatic, yet thorough honest advice’ and an ability ‘to act in the clients best interests, cutting straight to the issue regardless of complexity’ in a discreet, yet professional manner.
David is a member of our Corporate Leadership Team and oversees a growing portfolio, responsible for the successful delivery of exceptional services in his team making significant cost savings and strengthening assurance. David has a proven track record of achieving positive outcomes for his clients, enhancing and improving performance and delivering tangible results.
Career Highlights
- Awarded an Assistant Commissioners Commendation for his role in a crime prevention initiative.
- Identifying a large scale public procurement fraud involving an IT contract valued at £1.2M, with additional £300k losses prevented. Multiple sanctions applied.
- Developing fraud teams and departments comprising leadership of teams from 3 – >50 professionals.
- Saving of £5.8M achieved or a client following data analytics project.
- Developed and introduced the national framework for financial investigation, confiscation and asset recovery work to the NHS in England and Wales.
- Lead responsibility for delivery of counter fraud strategy across 82 London Health bodies, with combined operating budgets of over £32bn.
- Undertaking the first financial investigation within the NHS leading to recovery of £850k.
- Delivering 428 investigations in a financial year across a diverse client base.
- Is dual qualified to undertake management conduct and disciplinary investigations.