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Mike Perelman

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Background

More than 25 years of public and private sector experience across investigations and technology-led matters.

Mike Perelman is a Director at iDiscovery Solutions (iDS). He brings over 25 years of public and private sector experience in digital forensics, cybersecurity, eDiscovery, and information technology.

Mike has extensive experience conducting forensic investigations, helping clients resolve issues is such areas as misappropriation of trade secrets, employee misconduct, wrongful termination disputes, and non-complete claims. He has submitted expert reports and testified on the forensic preservation, acquisition, and analysis of electronic information.

Additionally, Mike has worked with multi-national organizations to create best practices and efficient workflows for defensible data preservation.

Prior to joining iDS, Mike was a Director of Investigations at HaystackID (formerly NightOwl Global), and a Director of High Tech Investigations Unit at Prudential Financial.

Mike is an industry thought leader. He served as an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he taught graduate courses in Digital Forensic Applications. Additionally, Mike presented on the topics of forensic investigations and mobile evidence at conferences, private corporations, and government agencies.

Mike lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. In his free time, he enjoys cooking and playing drums.

Education

M.S. in Forensic Computing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Professional

High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)

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What is at stake

The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.

The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.

Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.

When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.

You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.

iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.

You know the law. We help you know the evidence.

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Tell us what you need to establish. We will tell you what the evidence shows, what it does not, and what it means for your case.

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