Anthony Scilipoti

Shane Parrish: I want to start with how you got into forensic accounting. 

Anthony Scilipoti: Well, I was an accountant and I was working at Arthur Andersen and doing the normal audit preparatory work. I found it unfulfilling because I would find concerns with the accounting, and it didn’t end up going anywhere. So what ended up happening was that there was some due diligence work to do where we could actually look at transactions when companies were calling us to say, “We want to spin out this business” or “We want to make this acquisition.” And then I asked, “Can I do that sort of work?” I started doing it and I loved it. I saw some huge fulfillment.