Beyond Red Flags: How to Interpret People Risk Before You Hire or Invest

Hunt Scanlon Media’sBeyond Red Flags: How to Interpret People Risk Before You Hire or Invest

April 29th - 12-1pm ET

Join Mintz Group Partners Doug Chisholm and Sean Weathersby for an interactive webinar supported by Hunt Scanlon Media.

In today’s hiring and investment landscape, assessing people risk has become a critical component of both executive search and private equity decision-making. This session will explore how investors and search professionals evaluate management teams and leadership candidates beyond the résumé.

Drawing on decades of investigative experience, Mintz Group experts will share practical guidance on interpreting résumé discrepancies, reputational concerns, and past personal incidents. The discussion will highlight how these findings should be contextualized and when they meaningfully impact hiring decisions, leadership selection, and investment outcomes.

Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how to incorporate people-risk insights into executive hiring, CEO transitions, and pre-investment diligence processes.

Topics to be discussed include:

• When people-risk findings are material and when they require additional context
• How investors and search professionals incorporate investigative insights into leadership decisions
• The role of diligence in CEO transitions, executive hiring, and pre-investment evaluations
• Practical ways to integrate people-risk insights into broader decision-making

Audience members will have the opportunity to engage directly with the speakers during a live Q&A.

This webinar is free to attend and is supported by Hunt Scanlon Media.

Speakers:

Doug Chisholm is a Managing Partner and Co-Head of Corporate Risk and Due Diligence. Doug has been a corporate investigator and advisor for 30 years, including 25 years with the Mintz Group.

Doug specializes in providing enhanced due diligence solutions and business intelligence for clients all around the world, so they can make informed decisions on deals, hires and relationships and mitigate risk. Specifically, Doug supports private equity investors, hedge funds, banks, pension funds, family offices and venture capitalists, among others.

Doug creatively gathers facts that are not only used by clients to decide whether to go forward with an opportunity, but inform what a potential relationship might look like. For example, with respect to transactions, Doug and Mintz Group design reviews in a unique way that allows operations professionals to view Mintz Group’s findings as informatively as deal teams do, and use them in setting or altering growth plans. Doug also assists clients in disputes and proxy contests, among other areas.

Doug, a licensed investigator, is a skilled communicator who clients rely on to clearly and concisely explain complex findings. In addition to Mintz Group’s wide range of data sources and proprietary technology, Doug prides himself on his ability to obtain key human intelligence, where applicable, and unearth primary public records that extend beyond online sources, paying homage to his days as a fact-finder before the emergence of online sources.

Sean Weathersby is a Partner in the Mintz Group’s Washington, D.C. office, where he is a member of the firm’s Executive Diligence practice. He advises clients on reputational and integrity risks related to senior leadership hires, board appointments, and strategic investments. Sean’s work focuses on helping companies, investors, and law firms make confident decisions grounded in accurate, nuanced intelligence.

With over 15 years of experience in risk advisory and investigations, Sean has conducted thousands of complex background investigations across industries and jurisdictions, from pre-transaction due diligence to high-profile executive vetting. While Sean’s work has spanned broadly across industries – including healthcare, finance, energy, telecommunications and athletics – he has particular expertise in conducting diligence for clients in the academic and nonprofit sectors. Sean is recognized for his analytical rigor and sound judgment in advising clients navigating sensitive matters discreetly and effectively.

In addition to his work in executive diligence, Sean brings extensive experience supporting clients in complex disputes and investigations. He has led multifaceted assignments involving litigation support, asset tracing, and public-policy controversies, helping legal teams and corporate boards manage high-stakes matters with discretion and clarity. He is noted for his skill in navigating the sensitivities of proxy contests and governance disputes, having impeached the credibility of dozens of adverse nominees. He has also uncovered the sources of activist campaigns against high-profile clients; helped victims of Ponzi schemes recover their funds; and discredited counterparties in white-collar criminal defense, class-action lawsuits and corporate civil litigation.

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