Linda Butterfield

Senior Director, Investigations

It's one thing to have extensive technical knowledge and experience with a broad array of investigations. It's another to manage scores of investigations concurrently – across multiple disciplines and geographies – while providing clarity to clients and adapting strategies in real time as new information refines the focus and scope of investigations. Linda Butterfield is remarkably at home in this high-performance environment.

Before Butterfield was recruited to join the Hillard Heintze team, she spent ten years at Kroll, Inc, in a series of increasingly senior investigative positions.

In fact, across Butterfield's investigative research career, spanning more than 20 years, she has been entrusted with conducting complex due diligence and internal investigations as well as litigation support assignments for domestic and international clients including large multinational corporations, investment institutions, insurance companies, and nonprofit agencies and educational institutions. As a business strategist and analyst, Butterfield has also prepared business intelligence reports to support her clients' expansion and development initiatives.

Highlights of Butterfield's career include significant roles in several major cases, among them a five-year investigation of casino investors backgrounds, financing, and related complex business transactions; an investigation into plaintiffs' attorneys in connection with their handling of asbestos liability cases; and an international asset investigation that led to the recovery of multimillions in property, art, cars and business interests.

As Kroll's Associate Managing Director for Due Diligence, she helped develop a proven, cost-effective methodology for conducting high-volume, time-sensitive background screening investigations on complex subjects. Prior to this, as Kroll's Associate Managing Director of Technology Development, she led a global, multi-disciplinary team responsible for developing a content-rich portal for Kroll's practice and client information.

Her professional and research interests include, amongst a range of topics, open records initiatives and qualification education and training of investigative professionals. Butterfield holds a Masters of Library and Information Science from Dominican University.