FTI Hires FBI’s Former ‘Chief Hacker’

FTI Consulting has announced the appointment of Ronald Yearwood as a senior managing director based in San Francisco and charge with developing the firm’s cybersecurity practice on the West Coast.  Billed as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “chief hacker,” Yearwood served as the FBI Cyber Division’s senior executive in charge of the “most advanced reactive an proactive technical operations,” including the bureau’s national Network Intrusion Rapid Incident Response team, FTI said.