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Director, Brian P. McGuinness has been conducting investigations for the legal profession for 30 years, 7 years as a Miami-Dade County Public Defender Investigator and 23 years as a Florida licensed private investigator. He has located hundreds, if not thousands of witnesses over the years. Having come from an IBM family, he was one of the first investigators in Florida do go online and subscribe to the early investigative databases. He has testified in U.S. District Court on online databases and has been qualified in Court as an expert in this area.

He is a former president of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and a former president of the National Council of Investigation and Security Services, an industry trade association that lobbies on a grass roots level in Washington DC. on investigative, security and public record access issues.

As president of NCISS, Brian chaired a meeting in Washington DC between investigative leaders and executives of the major data provider companies including Lexis-Nexis, Choicepoint, Accurint and others. The joint industry group tried to find common ground and to counter intense media scrutiny on data providers for large scale security breaches at the time.

Brian developed an inside track as to how data providers and aggregators, collect, sort, distribute and in some cases truncate personal identity information that is used when locating and back grounding individuals. Additionally, he became acquainted with numerous companies that provide data and determined their strengths and weaknesses.

He was involved in three such historic meetings or Round Table Discussions between data providers and the investigative industry. Prior to these meetings, the two groups had never formally met and discussed issues and proposed restrictions on access to data.

As a long term NCISS legislative committee member, Brian has also assisted drafting position papers on legislation issues, amendment language and has testified before a Congressional Sub-Committee on Social Security as to the private investigative profession's need for continued access to this important personal identifier.

This background has enabled Brian to stay on the cutting edge of personal identity data issues that are so integral to being able to effectively locate witnesses and to conduct background investigations.