American Board of Registered Investigators

Executive Advisory Board

Chair

Steven R. Conlon

Steven R. Conlon, B.S., M.S., has served as a municipal police officer, state trooper, and state criminal investigator during his career. He is currently a staff instructor in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) and has provided training to investigators and prosecutors on topics of aberrant behavior and violent crime. He is involved in research projects involving topics of aberrant behavior and violent crime in his duties with the BSU. Mr. Conlon also coordinates and is the curator for the Behavioral Science Unit's Evil Minds Research Museum located at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Board Members

Ken Blackstone, MS, CFC

No bio available at this time.

H. Scott Browne, MS, RS

Born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Worked with the Wayne County Health Department as a Public Health Sanitarian. Currently serving as the Environmental Health Specialist, and assisting the faculty in the Forensic Investigation program for Wayne State University in Detroit. I have earned a Post Bachelor Certificate in Forensic Investigations from Wayne State University, and I have earned a Master’s Degree in Forensic Science from the University of Florida. I hold a Registered Sanitarian Certificate through the state of Michigan and I hold a CHS III level with ACFEI. I am an Officer in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. I am a licensed Private Investigator for the last eight years and I am a member with the Michigan Council of Private/Professional Investigators. I am also a member with the Polish Legion of American Veterans (PLAV).

Ron Carroll, BS

Ron Carroll is the Training Director for the Missouri Sheriffs Association Training Academy in Jefferson City, MO. As the Director he has the responsibility to oversee basic training classes at 15 sites located across the state of Missouri. In addition to this, he is responsible for all continuing education classes to include all web-based training. Prior to coming to the Sheriffs Association Ron was the Deputy Program manager for the Missouri Department of Public Safety Peace Officers Standards and Training Program where had oversight responsibility for all nineteen law enforcement training academies in the State of Missouri. Other responsibilities included the development of the Missouri Peace Officer Licensing exam.
Before entering the training world, Ron worked as an investigator/Special Agent with a number of organizations. The most recent was the Missouri Attorney General's Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in which he conducted provider health care fraud investigations. Before working for the Attorney general's Office, Ron was an investigator with the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) in Kansas City where he investigated contractors tasked with the liquidation of assets from failed savings and loans. Ron also worked for Jodean and Associates in Seattle, WA conducting workers compensation investigations as well as doing due diligence investigations for businesses, financial institutions, and insurance companies. A majority of Ron's investigative experience came while he was a Special Agent with the Air Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) in which he conducted criminal, fraud, and counterintelligence investigations. While with AFOSI he specialized in fraud investigations involving major defense contractors involved in the development and production of major weapons systems.
Ron has a bachelor's degree from St. Martin's University, Lacy, WA. He is currently serving on the criminal justice advisory boards for Missouri State University-West Plains and Vatterot College.

Joseph A. Juchniewicz, MA, SSI, CHS-III, RI

No bio available at this time.

Eric Lakes, CHS-III, CLWE, MCSE

No bio available at this time.

David Millsap, RI, CMI-I

No bio available at this time.

Gregory M. Vecchi, PhD, CFC, CHS-V

Gregory M. Vecchi, Ph.D., is the Unit Chief of the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Dr. Vecchi conducts research, training, and consultation activities in behavior-based conflict analysis and resolution, crisis management, crisis communication, and global hostage-taking.
Dr. Vecchi began his service with the FBI in Miami, Florida, in 1996, where he worked a variety of organized crime and drug matters, both domestically and internationally. Dr. Vecchi became an auxiliary crisis (hostage) negotiator 1998 and was formally certified by the FBI in 2002 and later by the London Metropolitan Police Department in 2005. In his capacity as a field negotiator, Dr. Vecchi responded to numerous warrant and barricade situations; co-managed the Miami Crisis Negotiation Team; and trained local, state, and federal law enforcement officers on a variety of crisis management and negotiation topics. In 2003, Dr. Vecchi was promoted and transferred to the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), where he was assigned to the Rapid Deployment/Logistics Unit (RDLU) and subsequently to the Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU) as a program manager. During his time at RDLU, Dr. Vecchi deployed to Iraq in support of counterterrorism operations and while assigned to CNU, he responded to and conducted research on international kidnapping matters. Prior to joining the FBI, Dr. Vecchi was a special agent/criminal investigator with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Agriculture OIG, and the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID).

Richard A. Vera, MBA, CPA

No bio available.

Cyril H. Wecht, MD, JD, CFP, CMI-V

Dr. Wecht is an honorary Life Fellow of ACFEI and Chair of the American Board of Forensic Medicine and the ACFEI Executive Advisory Board. He received his MD from the University of Pittsburgh and his JD from the University of Maryland. He is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic, clinical, and forensic pathology. He is a Charter Diplomate of the American Board of Disaster Medicine and served as Chairman of that Board. He is actively involved as a medical-legal and forensic science consultant, author, and lecturer. Dr. Wecht served 20 years as elected Coroner of Allegheny County in PA, and has performed approximately 16,000 autopsies, with assistance on 36,000 additional autopsies. He has testified in more than 1000 civil, criminal, and worker’s compensation cases in more than 30 states. He is the author or co-author of 530 professional publications and sits on the editorial board of 16 national and international medical-legal and forensic scientific publications. He is also an editor or co-editor of 44 books, including a five-volume set Forensic Sciences (Matthew Bender), and two 3-volume sets—Handling Soft Tissue Injury Cases and Preparing and Winning Medical-Negligence Cases.