Rob is the CEO and Founder of Spyder Forensics, where he heads operations, business development, and growth of the business. Rob is an accomplished instructor who develops course content for the digital investigations community that is delivered across the globe to state and local law enforcement personnel, ensuring the curriculum and delivery concepts are of the highest standards within the industry. He is an author and contributor to the production of customized courses tailored for digital forensic practitioners and corporate entities. Rob leads the research into forensic artifacts found on various digital devices and regularly presents his findings at international conferences.

Rob has almost 2 decades of experience developing and presenting training on Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Mobile Forensics and eDiscovery education programmes for the global digital investigations community, having previously held the positions of Vice President of Training at Cellebrite, Senior Vice President of Global Training at Nuix and Director of Training at AccessData. He has also held positions as a Computer Crime Specialist with the National White Collar Crime Centre, where his primary focus was on research and development of a file system analysis and automated forensic tool curriculum, and with the UK’s Kent Police as a Forensic Computer Analyst.

As a long term member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS), Rob instructs regularly at the association’s annual conferences and is a lead instructor for the Advanced Windows Forensic course as well as regularly presenting at the premier international digital forensics conferences such as High Technology Crime Investigation Association, Department of Defence Cyber Crime, F3 Annual Workshops and Internet Crimes against Children taskforce. Rob has contributed to digital forensic publications and is a subject matter expert to various courses for the ATA program managed by the State Department in the USA. Rob continually develops solutions to identify and report on new forensic artifacts on emerging technologies which he shares on open and closed forums.