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. In 2023, Marc earned his Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), validating his expertise in using advanced blockchain forensic tools and techniques to trace cryptocurrency transactions.
