FTI Consulting, Inc. announced the appointment of Maria Filipakis as a Senior Managing Director within the firm?s Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment. Ms. Filipakis is based in New York and has deep expertise across the insurance, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and financial services industries. She has nearly two decades of experience serving in government as a litigator, enforcement lawyer, chief of a state securities bureau, and banking and insurance regulator.

Ms. Filipakis was the first Executive Deputy Superintendent of the Capital Markets Division at the New York State Department of Financial Services. In that role, she led the development and implementation of two first-in-the-nation regulations for cybersecurity and digital currencies. In her role at FTI Consulting, Ms. Filipakis will support clients across the financial services industry with regulatory, compliance and claims challenges, risk management, due diligence and financial analysis.

She will also bring her diverse background as an insurance and cybersecurity practitioner to help clients with a wide range of compliance and regulatory challenges. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Filipakis co-founded and served as a Managing Partner at the Topside Group, working with companies and government agencies on strategic and regulatory matters related to securities, insurance, banking, cybersecurity, digital currencies and more.