Gary G. Kleinrichert

Gary G. Kleinrichert is a senior managing director at FTI Consulting and is based in Chicago and Indianapolis. Mr Kleinrichert has more than 28 years of financial and consulting experience and specialises in forensic accounting investigations, damages claims, and valuations. 

Mr Kleinrichert has provided expert testimony on more than 50 occasions at deposition, arbitration and trial. Mr Kleinrichert has testified throughout the United States, has appeared in Federal and State courts (bench and jury) and has served the court as a Special Master. The early part of his career was devoted to directing and performing over 200 financial audits of private and publicly held companies. Mr Kleinrichert is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA - licensed in Illinois and Indiana), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). He is a former member of the AICPA National Fraud Task Force. Mr Kleinrichert has significant experience in a variety of industries including insurance, financial services (banking, mortgage, brokerage and finance companies), health care, real estate, higher education, manufacturing/automotive, transportation/distribution, sports, retail and mining.

Mr Kleinrichert has lead numerous high profile engagements involving disputes related to the appropriate application of generally accepted accounting principles and generally accepted auditing standards and has conducted numerous fraud and forensic investigations. Many engagements have included extensive interviewing and the creation/reconstruction of accounting and financial records for purposes of financial and forensic analyses. In this regard, he was the leader of the forensic accounting aspect of the team engaged by counsel representing the special committee investigating high profile $1 billion restatement. In addition to assessments of compliance with accounting or auditing standards, Mr Kleinrichert has performed numerous investigations of compliance with other corporate or regulatory rules and procedures.