Adam Feeley was appointed as the Director & Chief Executive of the Serious Fraud Office in November 2009. He graduated with a LL.B (Hons.) from the University of Canterbury, and is qualified as a solicitor in both New Zealand and the UK. He has had a wide variety of management roles in the public and private sector including General Manager, Baycorp and Group Manager, Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development. Immediately prior to this role he was Chief Executive of the Eden Park Redevelopment Board.

Simon McArley has led the Financial Markets & Corporate Fraud team at the SFO since July 2010. Prior to his appointment, Simon performed similar regulatory roles at the Securities Commission and NZX. Before then he was a partner in a leading legal practice for over 10 years. Simon graduated with a LL.B from Victoria University and has contributed to numerous legal publications and seminars. He is a member of the NZ Markets Disciplinary Tribunal, and, past convener of the NZ Law Society Commercial & Business Law Committee.

Nick Paterson joined the Serious Fraud Office as General Manager, Fraud & Corruption in July 2010. Prior to this appointment, Nick was the Executive Director in charge of Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services team. Nick has specialised in fraud and forensic investigations since the mid 1990s. Over this period he also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and McCallum Petterson, as well as the Financial Service Authority and Ernst & Young in the UK. Nick is a Certified Fraud Examiner and past president of the Auckland CFE branch. He has a B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of London.

Deborah Marshall was appointed General Counsel for the SFO in June 2010. Prior to that she was a partner at Meredith Connell, the Office of the Crown Solicitor in Auckland. Deborah is an experienced criminal prosecutor, specialising in regulatory litigation. She has prosecuted cases in many courts and tribunals, including the High Court, District Court, Coroner’s Court and Human Rights Review Tribunal. She has also prosecuted in various disciplinary tribunals, including the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. Deborah is an expert in the field of privacy and official information law.

Rhys Metcalfe joined the Serious Fraud Office as an investigator in 1997, after several years in the Auckland Police Criminal Investigation Branch. He took a supervisory role in 2006, before being appointed General Manager of the Fraud Detection & Intelligence Unit in June 2010. His experience in law enforcement, and investigating financial crime at the most serious level of offending, spans more than two decades. Rhys has tertiary qualifications in business law.