HTCIA 3rd Annual Asia Pacific Regional Training Conference
Presenter Details

Presenter - Mr. John (Zeke) Thackray, Principal Investigator, Thackray Forensics Ltd.

John is the principal investigator of Thackray Forensics Limited (“Thackray Forensics”). Since 1997 Thackray Forensics has provided expert computer forensic services throughout the world.

John been professionally involved with information technology for over 25 years. His employment and experience prior to forming Thackray Forensics included:
16 years service with the British Army, qualifying as a Service Fund Audit and Military Accountant. During his military career he was actively involved within a computer administrative and operational role.

13 years of Police service in Britain and New Zealand with experience in information technology as an investigator and crime scene examiner. This included occupying a role between 1994 and 1997 as principal investigating officer, investigating international and national computer criminal activity.

He is a qualified fingerprint forensic, photographic and electronic crime scene examiner and the holder of the internationally recognised Forensic Science Diploma in Crime Scene Examination.

In 1996 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research and work alongside computer crime, law enforcement agencies and computer technology research and development specialists in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and mainland USA. He was subsequently honoured as a Churchill Fellow in 1997 on the successful completion of this research.

Between 1997 and 2001 he was the head of the Electronic Crime Unit New Zealand Police, Auckland. During this time he was responsible for the establishment and development of the unit and the daily delivery of electronic evidence and an investigative capability in support of operational law enforcement officers.

Between April 2001 and May 2002 he was employed as a Senior Manager and the Head of Computer Forensics Services with Ernst and Young throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was responsible for the daily management, QA process and delivery of electronic investigative and forensic services within the Oceania region. In 2003 he was contracted to IBM Incident Response Global Services Australia to implement a computer forensic capability to complement their ICT incident response team.

He is an Access Data certified examiner and Access Data Forensic Tool Kit Instructor. Between 1997 and 2001 he was a certified EnCase lead instructor at which time he qualified as an EnCase certified examiner. He is also a certified instructor for XRY, CellDek and Cellibrite, which are mobile telephone forensic recovery applications. EnCase and Access Data Forensic Tool Kit are the leading computer forensic evidence gathering, preservation and analysis tools used throughout the world both commercial and enforcement agencies involved with the investigation and interrogation of electronic data. XRY, CellDek and Cellebrite are also leading mobile telephone forensic evidence tools used extensively throughout the world.

He has given lectures throughout the world to both professional and interest groups on electronic misuse and abuse scene preservation and preventative issues.

More recently he has actively conducted investigations around the world and delivered training courses for both government and corporate organisations, which have included the UK, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

He has given expert testimony in both criminal and civil matters at all levels of the judicial process in many countries around the world. He is an active member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists and the British Forensic Science Society.