Sabina Menschel is President & Chief Operating Officer of Nardello & Co., based in the firm’s Washington, DC office. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, Sabina has over 16 years experience leading domestic and international due diligence, litigation support, fraud and global asset recovery investigations on behalf of financial institutions, law firms and multinationals.
Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Sabina was a Managing Director at an international risk consultancy in New York and then in Washington, DC. She joined that firm at its inception and helped establish its investigative practice. She also played an active role in client engagements, including leading a billion dollar asset recovery investigation of a family-controlled company for a US multinational. That investigation spanned Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US, and identified numerous businesses and substantial assets. Sabina has led numerous other asset searches against foreign sovereigns, global and domestic corporations and high-net-worth individuals.
Sabina began her investigative career as a research analyst at Kroll, and rose to Director of Research for the New York office and then to Global Head of Training for the Business Intelligence and Investigations practice.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Sabina served as a Special Advisor in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters in Washington, DC. In that capacity, she worked with senior management to refine and strengthen the FBI’s intelligence gathering capabilities and implement its intelligence transformation efforts in response to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
nardelloandco.com/executive-leadership-senior-staff/sabina-menschel/ A veteran of the top corporate intelligence firm in North America with stints in the FBI and Harvard Business School credentials, Menschel was a catch for Nardello & Co., which has offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and China.
What Menschel does in her short article is break down investigative work into three broad activities. These are Googling it, looking at public documents, and asking questions.
Hardly groundbreaking but it does confirm that intelligence work is the same as that other pursuit, plain old journalism, hence their ultimate classification as homework–the task of finding answers demanded by superiors.
So the different varieties of private eyes are just like their counterparts in the media? Actually more like their counterparts in genuine state-funded intelligence agencies who are in turn boring professorial types. Take it from Siegfried Beer, the director of an open source newsletter on covert activities, who appears to have visited the CIA often enough.
“They act like I did in university, sitting in the office,” he said in a 2014 interview with Cafe Babel. “…I felt like I was in uni, one doctor after the other. Specialist work on specialist problems, 9 to 5, it’s totally normal.”
According to Botbol his editorial team “read what others publish so as to know what is publicly known.”
Which fits with Menschel’s proclivity for search engine-ing facts and plumbing social networks even if the results are imperfect.
Then Botbol, and by extension Menschel, reach out to people as a final “intuitive” touch.
“Knowing which approach will resonate with an individual source requires contextual knowledge and experience,” is Menschel’s advice in her article. “An investigator should have questions prepared, but be flexible and ready to pursue unanticipated lines of inquiry.”
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Mason Barnes
Leading global investigations firm Nardello & Co. today announced Sabina Menschel has joined as Managing Director to head the Washington, DC office. Menschel has more than 16 years’ experience leading domestic and international due diligence, litigation support, fraud and global asset recovery investigations on behalf of financial institutions, law firms, and multinationals. Menschel will be based in Washington, DC and will oversee all regional investigations, collaborate on other national and multi-national projects and work as part of the team to further establish the firm’s growth and capabilities.
“We are pleased to welcome Sabina to the Nardello & Co. team and we are confident she will be a great asset to the firm,” said Dan Nardello, Chief Executive Officer, Nardello & Co. “With more than 16 years of experience, Sabina brings a deep knowledge of best practices to navigate and lead a wide array of investigations. This background coupled with her significant Washington, DC experience, makes her the right person to head the DC office and help grow our capabilities both domestically and internationally.”
Jordan Scott
Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Menschel served as a Managing Director at an international risk consultancy in New York and then in Washington, DC. She joined that firm at its inception and helped establish its investigative practice. She also played an active role in client engagements, including leading a billion dollar asset recovery investigation of a family-controlled company for a US multinational. That investigation spanned Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US, and identified numerous businesses and substantial assets. Menschel has led numerous other asset searches against foreign sovereigns, global and domestic corporations and high-net worth individuals. Other significant engagements included managing a due diligence in Asia and the US for an international financial institution seeking to obtain its banking license in the US, as well as helping to establish “best practices” on behalf of a domestic hedge fund for pre-employment investigations of prospective employees and due diligence investigations on trading platform partners.
Menschel began her investigative career as a research analyst at Kroll, and rose to Director of Research for the New York office and then to Global Head of Training for the Business Intelligence and Investigations practice.
Menschel is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Menschel served as a Special Advisor in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters in Washington, DC. In that capacity, she worked with senior management to refine and strengthen the FBI’s intelligence gathering capabilities and implement its intelligence transformation efforts in response to the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
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Ryan Hill
I don't have time to read all of this right now but bump for a good thread.
Daniel Cox
she was on the 9/11 comission. Parents are goldman sachs. She worked for KROLL which is basically another version of black cube. They did security on 9/11
