Adam Bates

London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Partner, Head of Investigations Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP

Apparel / Fashion

Adam has spent most of the past 30 years investigating frauds, regulatory breaches and other misconduct for corporations, governments, regulators and royalty. Along the way he became global chair of KPMG's leading Forensic practice. His work has taken him all over Europe, the Middle East, India, the far East and other locations. In 2010 KPMG was undergoing a major review of its strategy. Adam was asked to lead the innovation work stream. As this workload increased he passed the global chair to Petrus Marais from South Africa; reflecting the movement of wealth from West to East. Adam was appointed to be KPMG UK's "Head of Creative Thinking". A new post for KPMG which entailed providing i...