Veracity IIR continues to grow at a rapid pace in Carmel, where this group of former federal agents are working hard for a private sector that continues to be under assault from a variety of threats.
“Our growth has been tremendous, which is good for our business, but is troubling on many levels for our clients who are trying to conduct an honest business in an increasingly dangerous environment,” said Doug Kouns, owner and founder of Veracity, who spent 22 years with the FBI before opening his new business.
Veracity recently added Senior Intelligence Analyst Tawnee M. Hinton to his staff of investigators. Hinton is an Intelligence Analyst with the United States Department of the Navy-Reserve, currently working for the Office of Naval Intelligence.
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Another new face is Office Manager Alynda J. Neubeck, who joins Veracity with 35 years of administrative professional experience. She will use her project planning, problem solving and organizing experience to build procedures and processes as well as provide administrative support for our growing organization.
In addition to the growth in staff, Veracity is also expanding its footprint inside its headquarters on Pro-Med Lane. Since its opening in September 2018, Veracity has nearly tripled its business by adding new clients seeking intelligence, investigations and research on a variety of matters.
Kouns founded Veracity IIR with a vision of bringing the most experienced and accomplished law enforcement professionals, intelligence analysts and business people together to provide real solutions to real problems faced every day in a world where yesterday’s harmless internet prank has evolved into today’s info-tech hostage situation where companies are being blackmailed into paying millions of dollars in order to reverse the impact of a professional and vicious hack.
Kouns is a former Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI. For more than 22 years he served the Bureau in the field and at FBI Headquarters while conducting or overseeing criminal, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence investigations.
The new staff members bring a variety of experience to a team that is already the most prolific of its kind in the business.
Hinton, who was most recently deployed abroad, was the lead senior analyst on several high-profile missions. Specializing in political and military intelligence in Asia and Africa, Hinton provided daily intelligence updates and briefs to senior military officials directly impacting the U.S. African Command mission.
Additional past employment included working as an Intelligence Analyst for several government contractors and working for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center in Dayton, Ohio, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Indianapolis, and at Wright State Applied Research Center in Dayton, Ohio. Hinton is a 2003 graduate of Oakland City University, where she received her Master of Science in Business Management, and a 1992 graduate of Butler University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English.
Neubeck recently retired from Eli Lilly and Company as a Senior Executive Assistant after 27 years of service where she specialized in building new organizations; respect for people through confidentiality and privacy; training, coaching and mentoring new administrative employees; and serving internal and external customers with kindness and grace.
They join a team that includes the following:
- Kathy Guider, vice president, who leads the training division and oversees investigations. Guider is a former Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI. For more than 23 years, she served in the Indianapolis Division where she conducted drug, terrorism and white-collar crime investigations. Guider also served as an operator with the Indianapolis Special Operations Group and later became the Team Leader which engaged in covert missions and surveillance to support high priority investigations nationwide.
- Lori Achilles, director of the fraud division, a former Special Agent of the FBI specializing in White Collar Crime working in both the Indianapolis and New York City divisions of the FBI for more than 7 years. While in Indianapolis, she worked on the White Collar Squad investigating corporate fraud, investment schemes, health care fraud, and mortgage fraud. She was also a member of the Bank Fraud Working Group which involved coordinating with other law enforcement and regulatory agencies to discuss trends, potential frauds and weaknesses within the banking industry.
For more information, visit VeracityIIR.com.