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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Sophie Ross
Sophie Ross
FTI Consulting
Global Chief Executive Officer

Profile

Sophie Ross is the Global CEO of FTI Technology, a segment of FTI Consulting, which provides solutions and advisory across the spectrum of Digital Insights & Risk Management. FTI Technology is a fast-growing, award-winning provider of innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem-solving that has achieved rapid and significant growth in recent years. The firm delivers defensible and repeatable solutions to law firms and corporate clients around the world in industries including energy, technology, transportation, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceutical, construction, financial services and more. These organizations rely on FTI Technology to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts and harness organizational data to create business value.

With more than 20 years of experience in company management, strategic leadership, and operations around the globe, Ross helps clients manage their data in the context of compliance and risk and leads global technology segment strategy and execution across information governance, privacy and security, digital forensics, and corporate legal operations, among others. Her consulting expertise includes e-discovery and high-stakes document review through predictable pricing models, applying analytics, and simplifying the complex layers of discovery management. Ross is also a pioneering thought leader in the areas of digital risk and data-related challenges, and is actively engaged in helping clients navigate risk and opportunity along their artificial intelligence journey. She has won numerous awards for her leadership, including recognition with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Excellence in Innovation Award, Diversity Champion from Legalweek, and acknowledgement as a Global Leader for numerous consecutive years.

Prior to her current position, Ross led both the Western region for the technology segment and the managed document review business on a global scale. She joined FTI Consulting after its 2008 acquisition of Strategic Discovery, a leading company in the litigation discovery industry where she served as chief operating officer. Before her tenure at Strategic Discovery, Ross was the executive vice president of global delivery and operations at Freeborders Inc., a company specializing in application outsourcing and software. Ross holds a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Areas of expertise

- Digital Insights and Risk Management
- Artificial Intelligence
- E-Discovery
- Document Review
- Analytics
- Digital Forensics
- Data-Related Challenges
- Information
- Governance
- Privacy
- Corporate Legal Department Solutions

Group Overview

FTI Technology solves data-related business challenges, with expertise across the spectrum of Digital Insights & Risk Management. As data grows in size and complexity, we help organisations better govern, secure, find, analyze and rapidly make sense of information. Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem solving provide our global clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Organisations rely on us to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, remediate customers where wrongdoing may have occurred, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts and harness organizational data to create business value.

Firm Overview

Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive transformational opportunities to providing rapid responses to unexpected crises and dynamic environments. FTI Consulting has over 8,000 employees and 800+ Senior Managing Directors across 33 countries and territories, with a market cap of $7.7B. The firm is an advisor to 98 of the top 100 law firms; advisor to 38 of the world's top 50 bank holding companies; and advisor to 64 of the top 100 Private Equity International firms.