Our team consists of a core group of analysts with diverse backgrounds (including law, finance, economics and social sciences).
We have numerous languages in-house, including Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi, etc.
CEO - Founder
Joel Pastre, CEO of Global Risk Profile Sàrl (GRP), co-founded the company in 2009. By implementing innovative processes and strategies, and placing Due Diligence as the core of the business, GRP has quickly joined the ranks of internationally recognized specialists in the field of Third-Party Risk Management.
Prior to launching his own business, Mr. Pastre worked in the financial industry. Starting as a research and quantitative analyst, he was then entrusted with managing traditional equity and absolute return portfolios. He was notably in charge of the open fund AAA Long Only Fund European Equities, highly rated for its exceptional overall performance.
COO
Managing Director - GRP France
Pierre Memheld has over 20 years of experience consulting on economic intelligence, international development and criminal risk management, primarily in India and Persian Gulf states. He writes regularly on these topics, as well as on the analysis of strategic information. He is a member of the Organized Crime Observatory and the International Association for Intelligence Education.
Pierre holds a Masters of Technology Control from the CRRM (Aix-Marseille University), a Masters of Information and Security from the CESD (Marne-la-Vallée University) and an Executive MBA from ESSEC Business School.
For several years, Pierre Memheld served as Head of the Master Program on Economic Intelligence at the University of Strasbourg, where he teaches at the Faculty of Economics and Management, as well as in Marne-la-Vallée.
Head of Development Department
Head of Research & Production
Head of Business Development - Italy
Head of Sales - Italy
Chairman
Mr. Giannakopoulos is the President and co-founder of the Organized Crime Observatory (OCO) and Director of Inside.CO SA, a Geneva-based criminal investigation company.
He has also participated in numerous research programs and was in charge of the three-year research program “Swiss Corruption and Organized Crime” financed by the Swiss Confederation. He has closely collaborated with magistrates and police services in many jurisdictions and was awarded the Medal of Merit by the Brazilian judicial authorities for his professional achievements.
Member
Stanislas ZUIN is a certified internal auditor (CIA) and holds master degrees in both economics and economic crime investigation, as well as a certificate in development studies. Throughout his career he has worked as a private banking financial analyst, a corporate finance executive, and CFO for both privately-owned and listed industrial companies.
He later founded his own consulting firm in economic crime investigation, before being elected from 2006 to 2018 as magistrate at the Court of auditors of Geneva, Switzerland. As magistrate he has managed numerous audits including fraud investigations and performance audits. He has served four years as the President of the Court, and is a frequent lecturer at Universities in the fields of investigation and audit.
He was appointed in January 2019 as Board Vice President of Geneva International Airport, in charge of Audit & Finance committee, together with the launch of its own consultancy company in the field of audit and governance.
Member
Mr. Passas is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, and co-director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy. He is also a visiting professor at the Basel Institute on Governance and Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication’s Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics.
Mr. Passas specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. He has published more than 220 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 14 languages.
Member
Since Jan 2017, Mr. DE KOSTER serves as First Advocate General at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation in Brussels. He is also President of the Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit (CTIF-CFI) since March 2016.
He has extensive expertise in law, governance and anti-fraud measures. Mr DE KOSTER gained professional experience working as a deputy public prosecutor from 1988 until 1997 and later joined (1995) the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) of the European Commission until 1998. From 20 July 1999 until 15 July 2003, he was deputy head of Cabinet of the Minister of Justice, naming just a few of his prominent positions throughout his career.
Member
Mr. Albano has built up a variety of skills through his diverse experiences. He has worked in institutions as a provincial councillor in the province of Turin, as well as in support of institutions as an advisor in the Economic Development Centre and the Regional Agency for Piedmont Health Services in the Piedmont Region. His resume also boasts international experience with the European Parliament. Throughout the course of his career, Mr. Albano has also worked with different businesses, primarily in the field of Health and Science. He also has experience in the energy sector working in business development with SNAM SpA.
Additionally, Mr. Albano has provided global business advice to Business Hub SpA concerning the internationalisation of Italian SMEs. He now serves as a Director working on clients & markets with PwC.
Member
Andrea Rigodanzo is currently the Team Lead of Monitoring & Risk Metrics at Credit Suisse. He was formerly Chief Operating Officer of Global Risk Profile. Having supervised the Analyst Team since 2013, Mr. Rigodanzo also managed a number of key corporate projects in various fields.
Graduate in Social Anthropology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS), Andrea started his career in an Italian NGO, active in raising awareness for social causes and the fight against organized crime.
Mr. Rigodanzo joined GRP as analyst at its very beginning. Since then, the scope of his responsibilities gradually increased, as a logical consequence of his strong commitment and the high quality of his work.
Mr. Rigodanzo continues to contribute his expertise to GRP through his membership on the Scientific Board.
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