Frederick H. Graessle

Mr. Frederick  H. Graessle is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a  Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), and is currently the  owner of Integrity Assurance, LLC, a forensic CPA firm licensed in  Kansas. Missouri and Indiana.  Integrity Assurance, LLC was originally  formed in 2005 in the State of Indiana after Mr. Graessle’s 30-year  career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation where  he specialized in corruption and white collar criminal matters.


While  with the FBI, he was selected to teach white collar investigative  techniques at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest,  Hungary.  Students at the academy were high-ranking officers of the  member states of the former Soviet Union. Mr. Graessle also served on  the FBI’s Corporate Fraud Reserve Team.


From  2008 to 2014, Mr. Graessle also served as the Vice President of  Franchise Relations & Development for DirectBuy, Inc. - the largest  consumer buying club in North America. Mr. Graessle and his family owned  and operated one of the top producing franchises of DirectBuy, Inc.  from 2009 to 2015.  
Since 2005, Integrity Assurance, LLC’s clients  have included multiple Fortune 500 companies. Through Integrity  Assurance, LLC, Mr. Graessle was engaged to perform Bank Secrecy  Act/Anti-Money Laundering engagements for multiple financial  institutions and casino operations. Mr. Graessle previously served as a  board member and executive committee member of the Indiana Society of  Certified Public Accountants.  
Integrity Assurance, LLC has become  associated with strategic partners in crisis management assessments,  threat assessment processes, psychological profiling, cyber-security,  human resource counseling, corporate culture counseling, corporate  security matters, background matters, social media monitoring, and  information technology security.  These strategic partners have enabled  Integrity Assurance, LLC to provide a wide-range of services not  typically offered by a single entity.  
Mr. Graessle helped develop  a rules-based analytical and compliance process known as BlackBox that  was launched in early 2017.  This process operates as an external  control over financial and operational processes for business,  non-profits, and governments.  BlackBox helps protect assets and data  through the discovery of errors, omissions, thefts, and frauds at  organizations without the risk of compromise associated with traditional  internal control processes.  
Mr. Graessle recently co-authored an  article on cyber-security which is slated for publication this fall in  Strategic Finance, a publication of the Institute of Management  Accountants.  This publication is distributed to 85,000 members in over  140 countries.