MANAGING PARTNER & CO-FOUNDER
Ajay Sharma
CPA (CA) · IMD Change Management · Geneva
Senior investigations leader with 18+ years across donor-funded, humanitarian
and corporate contexts, including 18+ years leading complex, multi-jurisdictional
investigations covering procurement and supply-chain fraud, corruption, FCPA matters
and sexual misconduct.
At the Global Fund Office of the Inspector General, Ajay led the landmark DRC mass
bed-net investigation that identified losses exceeding USD 7 million and
negotiated the remediation programme that triggered a complete revamp of the
Global Fund's iNGO assurance framework. He also designed and finalised the institution's
Proactive Investigations strategy and standard operating procedure — a hypothesis-driven,
intelligence-and-data-analytics methodology now embedded in OIG practice — and advised
on the systemic PSEAH prevention framework.
Outside the donor-funded sphere, Ajay exposed a multi-million-dollar counterfeit
mosquito-net supply chain running from China into West Africa; led a 20-person
forensic accounting team investigating a US-listed Indian IT company following an
SEC order; and supervised ADB procurement-risk reviews in India, Nepal and Kazakhstan.
More recently, he has focused on applying agentic AI to integrity work — including an
AI-augmented due-diligence workflow for a Middle-East industrial client and an
AI-enabled risk-analytics dashboard for a South-East Asian energy producer. His
investigations work has been consistently top-rated in quality reviews throughout
his career at international firms and donor institutions.
Prior roles: Senior Investigator, Global Fund OIG (2013–2025) ·
Senior Manager, EY Forensic & Integrity Services (2008–2013) ·
Litigation & Financial Consultant, BMR / Huron Consulting (2006–2008) ·
Analyst, Deloitte & Touche (2006).
Languages: English (fluent), French (working proficiency), Hindi (native), Bengali (advanced).
Forensic technology: Nuix, EnCase, Tableau, agentic AI workflow orchestration.
PARTNER & CO-FOUNDER
Valérie Ella Künzler
M.A. International Security (Warwick) · M.A. International Administration & Conflict Management (Konstanz) · Geneva
International peace, security and integrity professional with 8+ years
across UN peacekeeping, conflict-sensitive programming and institutional
capacity-building. Tier 1 & 2 qualified as a Sexual Exploitation, Abuse
and Harassment (SEAH) investigator, with deep grant-management, donor-reporting
and policy-design experience spanning humanitarian, peacebuilding and multilateral settings.
As Civil Affairs Officer with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS),
Valérie served two years on the protection-of-civilians mandate in Northern Bahr el
Ghazal, working in daily collaboration with UNMISS military components and national
security actors on conflict prevention — designing community dialogues, mediation
processes and sustainable conflict-mitigation projects, and producing early-warning
and risk analyses with actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
At Interpeace she was the substantive and administrative backbone of a 3-year,
USD 4.5 million Peace Responsiveness programme, co-facilitating cross-organisational
peer learning across seven UN agencies. At the Principles for Peace Foundation she
advised across a USD 4 million donor portfolio (incl. Hans Wilsdorf Foundation
and Robert Bosch Stiftung) and reviewed a 16-grant sub-grant mechanism. As Project
Manager at Finance for Peace she delivered, over a ten-month build with a five-person
team, the MVP of an online tool preparing stakeholders for peace-positive financial-instrument
certification, and co-designed its four-module foundational course.
Prior roles: Course Coordinator & Facilitator, Interpeace (2025–) ·
Program & Partnerships Advisor, Principles for Peace Foundation (2024–2026) ·
Project Manager, Finance for Peace (2023–2024) ·
Program Support Officer, Interpeace (2020–2023) ·
Civil Affairs Officer, UNMISS (2018–2020) ·
Trainee, Europol (2017).
Credentials: SEAH Investigator Tier 1 & 2 (CHS Alliance, 2024) ·
Safeguarding Officer in Sport (IOC, 2025) · R2P (Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, 2019).
Languages: German (native), English (near-native), French (working proficiency), Spanish (intermediate).
In-country experience: South Sudan, Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia.
