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Mitch Dembin

CEO, EvidentData, Inc.

Mitch Dembin served for 15 years as a federal prosecutor in San Diego, California and in Boston, Massachusetts. Until leaving the government in late 2000, he was the Chief of the General Crimes Section for the United States Attorney’s Office in San Diego. Under Mitch’s supervision, the fifteen federal prosecutors of the General Crimes Section investigated and prosecuted a variety of economic crimes including computer and high technology crime; intellectual property crimes; credit card, advance fee and certain types of investment schemes; bank fraud; bankruptcy fraud; government benefit fraud; and, organized crime. The General Crimes Section also prosecuted all non-border reactive crime (such as bank robbery); assaults, threats child pornography and other violent crime. Over the years, Mitch personally specialized in telemarketing fraud, bank fraud and, since 1991, in computer crimes. He was the first Computer and Telecommunications Crime Coordinator for the office and regularly provided training to prosecutors, investigators and industry groups in the United States and abroad regarding computer crime. He also served as the Financial Institution Fraud Coordinator and as the Legal Coordinator for the San Diego Boiler Room Task Force.Mitch also served five years in the narcotics section of the Boston U. S. Attorney's Office and five years with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

Mitch is credited with having founded the San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, a national prototype, which provides assistance to the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies serving San Diego and Imperial Counties. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Chapter of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association and served as its president for the year 2000. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the San Diego High Technology Crime Task Force (“CATCH”).

Mitch joined EvidentData after a year serving as the Program Director for the Cyber Attack Tiger Team of Exodus Communications, a group specializing in detecting and responding to computer intrusions.

Mitch was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a New York City Police Officer, and attended Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (B.A. 1975) and Western New England Law School where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review (J.D. 1978). He is an avid scuba diver and squash player and a very bad golfer.

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