Michele Stuart, PI

Ms. Stuart is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of Arizona with twenty years of experience specializing in the areas of Financial, Open Source Investigations (OSINT), Corporate Investigations, and Intelligence/Counter Intelligence. She started her investigative career as an Economic Fraud Investigator.

Ms. Stuart is an Adjunct Professor with University of Virginia and an Instructor at Quantico for multi-country training programs. She provides seminars on her specialized investigative techniques in Open Source Investigations (OSINT). Over the past years she has provided presentations, and private training, to both Federal and State levels of Law Enforcement Agencies and Military Intelligence throughout the United States including attendees of Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals, FBI, DOJ, Border Patrol, Indian Tribal Nations and local law enforcement agencies throughout the country.

Additionally, she has presented classes for RSIG, ARA, Allied Finance Adjusters, Insurance Special Investigative Units and numerous financial and state associations. Moreover, she has written and published several articles pertaining to her investigative methods in various investigative publications and journals and is a featured author with her own column concerning Internet Profiling and Open Source Investigations titled “Internet FYI” in PI Magazine, a widely distributed trade publication of the private investigations industry. Her presentation is entitled “Internet Profiling and Intelligence Gathering”.

Ms. Stuart has received the following prestigious awards:

Top 25 Most Influential Collection Professionals of 2011

2012 Speaker of the Year – National Association of Investigative Specialists