Ilya Umanskiy

DIRECTOR – RESILIENCE PRACTICE

Ilya Umanskiy is a partner with Sphere State. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Specialist Crypto Investigator (Elliptic). Prior to joining Sphere State, Ilya spent 11 years at Kroll and 6 years at Prudential Financial. He also taught in the master’s program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. His work covers several disciplines of risk management:

Fraud investigations
Due diligence
Security
Resilience

In the course of his career, Ilya helped multiple government and private sector clients. Below are some examples of his projects:

Successful investigation of a fatal explosion in Manila.
Significant reduction of operational, reputational, and financial damage after a ransomware attack.
Security guidance for more than 400 nonprofit organizations in the US and abroad, leading to meaningful improvements.
Identification of real-world and cryptocurrency assets.
Expert witness service.
Design of the first-ever process serve via NFT in the BVI.
Co-authoring the Crypto Market Consumer Bill of Rights.
Design of security systems for a UN HQ in New York.
Delivering physical penetration tests in multiple countries for multi-national clients.