Michael Whittington

Head of Employee Screening, The Risk Advisory Group

 

Michael joined the Risk Advisory Group in 2013 as Head of the Employee Screening practice. Michael has over 20 years’ experience in the employee screening industry at senior management level and spent several years in a global HR Risk and Governance role.

Michael started working in the employee screening sector when he was a co-owner and director of Financial & Personnel Research Limited (FPR), a commercial investigations company. FPR was acquired by Kroll Inc. in 2004 and Michael went on to become a senior managing director with Kroll Background Screening, covering EMEA & APAC.

In 2008, Michael took a break from the screening industry and joined Barclays Bank plc, working in the Global HR Risk & Governance team. During this time, Michael supported the bank’s in-country HR teams to ensure that they had appropriate controls in place to comply
with the group HR policies, particularly in regard to their recruitment and employee screening policies. Michael returned to the employee screening industry in 2011, as managing director for G4S Employee Screening before joining Risk Advisory.

As Chair of the European Chapter of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), Michael is active in the background screening community. Michael is a member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD) and a member of the Institute of Professional
Investigators (MIPI).