Adjunct Professor of Law
Managing Director, BDO Consulting
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE),
Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), and
Attorney
Bachelor of Science in Accounting, with honors, and J.D, St. John’s
University School of Law
Prof. Ventricelli is a Managing Director with BDO Consulting. BDO's
core practice areas include litigation, investigation, insurance
claims, business restructuring, and risk advisory services.
He has over 23 years of accounting, finance and consulting
experience specializing in the areas of forensic
accounting/financial investigations and disputes involving complex
economic and financial issues. Prior to joining BDO Consulting,
Prof. Ventricelli was a managing director at Capstone Advisory
Group, senior managing director at FTI Consulting, and a managing
director at Protiviti.
Prof. Ventricelli has extensive experience assisting counsel in
conducting complex, fact-finding accounting and financial
investigations including matters involving allegations of fraud,
financial reporting irregularities, management misconduct,
embezzlement, kickbacks, and FCPA violations. As a forensic
accountant, he has provided assistance to counsel in uncovering
critical evidence to refute or support allegations concerning
breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, fraud, accounting
irregularities, and GAAP/GAAS issues. As an expert witness, he has
provided testimony at deposition and trial concerning accounting
irregularities, schemes among related entities to divert assets,
fraudulent conveyances, and damages.
Prof. Ventricelli has significant bankruptcy consulting experience
and has served as court appointed examiner, forensic accountant and
financial advisor to trustees, debtors, lenders, and committees. He
specializes in conducting an investigation of the debtor’s assets,
liabilities and pre-petition conduct, reconstructing incomplete
accounting and financial records, and the identification,
investigation and assessment of potential recovery causes of action
including preferences, fraudulent conveyances and solvency
determinations, auditor liability, and substantive
consolidation.
Prof. Ventricelli received his Bachelor of Science degree in
Accounting with honors and his Juris Doctor from St. John’s
University. He is an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University
School of Law in the LL.M. in Bankruptcy program, where he has
taught a bankruptcy accounting course focusing on forensic
accounting and litigation consulting services. He is licensed as a
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE),
Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA), and
Attorney.