About Us

Marc Schwartz is the Chairman and Managing Member of Schwartz Associates, LLC, a forensic consultancy firm focused on financial fraud investigations, litigation support, restructuring, and bankruptcy advisory. Schwartz Associates is also a Texas Licensed Private Investigation Agency, where he and several of his employees are licensed private investigators. Marc has nearly five decades of public accounting experience, with much of his career spent providing expert witness testimony for civil and criminal cases, assisting clients in matters spanning a vast range of industries. Marc has also served as a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee, a bankruptcy examiner with expanded powers, a Chief Restructuring Officer, and a Federal and State court receiver on multiple occasions throughout his career. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Marc is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and in 2014 the ACFE presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the anti-fraud profession. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Spanning 23+ years, Chris’s career has allowed him to hone his expertise in financial reporting and analysis, transaction tracing and verification, and budgeting and project management. Business and asset valuation later became a focus as he worked closely in the valuation, marketing, and sell of key components of a national insurance services company in 2010, and in helping to guide a secondary market life insurance firm navigating a consolidation of assets, divestiture, and a Chapter 11 reorganization plan confirmed in 2022. Since 2020, Chris has been active in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space learning the intricacies of various sectors, use cases, and digital asset investigations. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time in the outdoors or enjoying live music with his family.

Steve is a Supervisor with Schwartz Associates. He currently provides a wide array of consulting services to clients including fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and litigation support services. Steve’s experience in the forensic accounting and fraud investigation realm includes matters involving various types of white-collar crime including allegations such as embezzlement, asset misappropriation, Ponzi schemes, insurance fraud, etc. Steve has also served as an independent forensic accountant for a mass tort settlement process and was tasked with identifying indicia of fraud and errors in the performance of the claim’s administrator. Prior to joining Schwartz Associates, Steve worked at FORVIS in their Forensics and Valuations Services group. Steve’s previous experience also includes working for accounting departments in the hospitality, manufacturing, and oilfield services industries. Steve is pursuing his Certified Fraud Examiner certification from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is also working towards becoming a Certified Public Accountant. He serves on the board of the Houston Area Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Chapter. He is also active in the Houston chapter of the Turnaround Management Association and has participated in their expert witness training program. He is a graduate of University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, with two Bachelors of Business Administration degrees. The first in Accounting and the second in Finance.

Stephen has been a forensic accountant for 4 years working on a variety of cases but mostly pertaining to the dissolution of marriage. He enjoyed 4 years with the Marines before graduating from Sam Houston State with a BA in Accounting. Most of his free time is spent with his friends watching football or playing board games.