© Delise Ward

Tom Ajamie is one of the top trial lawyers in the United States and has a long track record of successfully suing financial criminals both domestically and internationally. He has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars–including the largest stock arbitration award in U.S. history, $429 million–from fraudulent individuals, fraudulent firms, and organized criminal syndicates.

Ajamie serves as a regular commentator for the international media on corporate and financial crimes, including ABC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times, BusinessWeek, InvestmentNews, Bloomberg News, and Newsweek. Ajamie is the founder and managing partner of Ajamie LLP. He lives in Houston, Texas.

© David Stokes

Bruce Kelly is the news editor for InvestmentNews, the leading trade publication for the investment advice business.

An award-winning journalist, Kelly writes about Wall Street, securities regulation, brokerage firms, and fraud, and was covering the collapse of Ponzi schemes and damage to investors more than a year before Bernie Madoff admitted his $50 billion fraud in December 2008. He lives in New York City.