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Jules Kroll is the founder of Kroll and vice chairman of Marsh. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Mr. Kroll is the acknowledged founder of the modern investigations, intelligence, and security industry. In 1972, when he established Kroll Associates Inc. as a consultant to corporate purchasing departments, he created the prototype for a new breed of professional service firm dedicated to mitigating risk. By employing former prosecutors, law enforcement officials, journalists, and academics who utilized sophisticated fact-finding techniques to address decision-makers' needs for accurate information, Mr. Kroll established investigations and risk consulting as valuable corporate services.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Kroll gained worldwide renown for his firm's success in searching for assets hidden by Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Since 1997, his vision of providing clients with a full spectrum of risk consulting services propelled the firm's growth as a public company, in particular, its acquisition of employee screening, forensic accounting, data recovery, and corporate advisory and restructuring firms. This vision was fully realized in July 2004 when Kroll was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies.
The recipient of numerous awards throughout his career, Mr. Kroll was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Cornell University in 2003 and was honored with the U.S. Entrepreneurial Award by BritishAmerican Business Inc. in 2002.
Mr. Kroll received a B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1963 and an LL.B degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1967 and began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan.
He currently serves as chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University Law Center and chairman of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. He is a former member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University and Board of Trustees of Cornell University.
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