Dan Bender is a Director in Navigant Consulting's Financial Services Practice. With 17 years of combined consulting and Financial Services industry experience, Dan has advised investment advisers, sponsors of registered investment companies, business development companies and unregistered private equity and alternative investment fund clients with matters relating to regulatory compliance, strategic compliance and operations business process design/re-design, risk management, effective governance/oversight and regulatory inquiries/responses. He has assisted clients with developing and enhancing compliance program policies, procedures, business processes and associated internal controls, risk-based monitoring and forensic/internal controls testing programs, risk assessment methodologies, conflicts of interest analysis and supporting technology and operational infrastructure. Prior to joining Navigant Consulting, Dan was with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., for five years, and eight years in the Boston office of JP Morgan Chase Investor Services providing accounting and related reporting services to sponsors of international, emerging markets and U.S. mutual funds.