Karyl is a nationally recognized forensic accounting, investigations, and dispute advisory professional with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations, boards of directors, audit committees, counsel, regulators, and government agencies address complex financial, accounting, compliance, and regulatory challenges. A Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner, she leads multidisciplinary teams in matters involving fraud, financial reporting, anti-corruption compliance, regulatory investigations, forensic accounting, economic damages, valuation, and complex commercial disputes.
About Karyl
Karyl advises clients facing some of their most significant business and legal challenges, including allegations of financial misconduct, accounting irregularities, bribery and corruption, internal control failures, post-acquisition disputes, and high-value commercial litigation. Her work spans investigations, compliance assessments, risk mitigation, remediation, valuation, damages analysis, and expert testimony in matters involving billions of dollars of exposure.
Widely recognized for her extensive work in the energy, oil and gas, construction, engineering, and infrastructure sectors, Karyl has advised public and private companies, audit committees, lenders, investors, and counsel on matters involving revenue recognition, project accounting, contract claims, regulatory compliance, fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations, royalty disputes, joint venture disputes, joint interest billings, business interruption claims, and economic damages. She has led investigations involving energy trading, drilling operations, oilfield services companies, construction contractors, engineering firms, and large-scale capital projects throughout North America and internationally.
Karyl has deep experience conducting investigations involving accounting and financial reporting issues, revenue recognition, asset tracing, fraud schemes, FCPA matters, and regulatory inquiries. She has also assisted organizations in designing and enhancing compliance programs, conducting merger and acquisition due diligence, and implementing remediation measures following investigations and enforcement actions. Her experience includes supporting large-scale government and court-appointed monitorships and receiverships involving multinational operations and complex stakeholder environments.
One of Karyl's most notable engagements involved serving as lead investigator to the court-appointed receiver of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving a global financial services organization. In that role, she directed multidisciplinary teams of up to 125 professionals across forensic accounting, data analytics, economic damages, and electronic evidence. She supported the matter through expert testimony, regulatory proceedings, asset recovery efforts, and litigation over an extended period.
In the energy and construction sectors, Karyl has been retained in matters involving U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations; long-term construction contract accounting; engineering, procurement, and construction project disputes; oil and gas royalty matters; Eagle Ford shale leasehold and joint venture disputes; and energy-related FCPA investigations. She also has experience with damages analyses involving petrochemical facilities, energy producers, and oilfield service companies. She has provided expert testimony and consulting services in arbitrations, regulatory proceedings, and litigation involving some of the industry's most complex financial and operational issues.
Karyl has provided expert witness testimony in federal and state courts as well as domestic and international arbitration proceedings. She has presented investigative findings and analyses to regulators and enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the SEC, the IRS, and other governmental authorities. Her ability to translate complex financial and accounting issues into clear, credible, and persuasive analyses has made her a trusted advisor in high-profile disputes and investigations.
Prior to joining Huron, Karyl held senior leadership and partner-level positions at several leading global consulting and professional services firms, including J.S. Held, BDO, Navigant, PwC, FTI Consulting, and KPMG. She previously served as the Forensic Energy Sector Leader at PwC and has worked extensively across the energy, construction, manufacturing, technology, and financial services sectors. Her engagement experience spans North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.
Karyl earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.