Jennifer L. Mackovjak
Director, Investigations
As former Director of Investigations at Altegrity Risk International, Senior Director at Kroll,
Inc., and Senior Detective Investigator in the New York County District Attorney's Office,
Jennifer Mackovjak is a highly seasoned civil and criminal investigator with extensive U.S. and
international public and private sector credentials.
Critical to Mackovjak's success throughout her career have been three qualities: (1) a passion
for truth; (2) a natural comfort with the rigor, objectivity and persistence required to uncover
it; and (3) a deep, technical understanding of precisely how every phase of the investigation –
from receiving a tip to providing testimony at trial or before grand juries – must be undertaken
to preserve the integrity of its findings. She specializes, for example, in leading the teams
responsible for critical investigative tasks such as formulating and executing case strategies,
investigative plans and tactical initiatives; analyzing litigation and other public filings; and
gathering intelligence through human source interviews, media reports, social networking
sites and online database research.
Before Altegrity recruited her to help launch its Investigations Division in Chicago, she served as a Senior Director of Business Intelligence and Investigations at Kroll with responsibility for multiple areas. In this capacity, Mackovjak led and directed investigations related to corporate misconduct, pre-transactional and investigative due diligence, onshore and offshore asset searches, hostile takeovers, patent infringement disputes, fraud, competitive intelligence, litigation support and computer forensic analysis. One of the highlights of her work at Kroll was her pro-bono support to the Innocence Project, where she played a critical role in uncovering evidence in a 1988 murder case that led to the exoneration of a wrongfully convicted defendant after 18 years in prison.
Earlier in her career, Mackovjak served as a Senior Detective Investigator and Intelligence
Analyst in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she investigated a wide range
of major offenses, including homicide, grand larceny, fraud, forgery, securities fraud, identity
theft, sexual abuse and bid-rigging. In this capacity, she executed judicial eavesdropping
and search warrants; located and interviewed defendants, subjects of interest, fugitives
and witnesses; oversaw the cooperation of informants; assisted with witness protection and
relocation; and planned and conducted undercover operations and the physical surveillance
of subjects.
Mackovjak was the lead case officer, for example, in a prominent six-year investigation of organized crime rings involved in insurance fraud, enterprise corruption ("State RICO"), bribery, grand larceny, money laundering, and coercion – an investigation which led to the arrest and prosecution of more than 30 individuals. This criminal enterprise included corrupt attorneys, doctors, hospital personnel and Soviet émigré organized crime figures who were responsible for generating and laundering millions of dollars in criminal proceeds through the payment of kickbacks and bribes, falsification of business records, insurance fraud and staged automobile accidents.
Mackovjak holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from Marquette University and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree from DePaul University. She is a graduate of the Westchester County (NY) Police Academy and a licensed private investigator in Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
