Senior Managing Director, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting

Kelly Bialas has 20 years of experience in providing litigation consulting, financial advisory, forensic accounting and financial investigation support to clients involving a broad range of issues across industries, with a focus on property and casualty and life insurance and reinsurance. She has specific expertise with complex litigation and investigations, damage quantification, representations and warranties insurance claims, insurance accounting and process advisory and remediation support.

Ms. Bialas provides forensic investigation and remediation support to her clients facing various regulatory, financial and operational challenges. She has performed independent investigations related to suspicions of fraud and regulatory non-compliance on behalf of boards of directors, executive management and federal and state agencies across various industries, including investment funds, insurance companies and intermediaries, diverse holding companies, food manufacturers, and entities involved in the digital asset space.

Ms. Bialas’s litigation and claims experience includes determining the merit and value of claims made under representations and warranties insurance policies, assessing whether audits were performed in accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards (“GAAS”), analyzing a variety of issues affecting the cryptocurrency industry, analyzing liability and damage issues related to breach of contract and post-acquisition disputes and evaluating insolvency causation issues. Ms. Bialas has testified in a confidential arbitration involving a dispute between two global reinsurance companies, which involved analyzing historical accounting for complex reinsurance agreements. On the financial advisory side, Ms. Bialas advises clients on accounting and financial reporting matters, leads teams providing outsourced accounting functions, and provides transaction advisory services related to insurance and reinsurance, including financial and operational issues.

Ms. Bialas holds a B.B.A. degree in accounting from Loyola College in Maryland. She is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and a Certified Fraud Examiner.  Prior to FTI Consulting, Ms. Bialas audited property and casualty insurance and reinsurance companies at Ernst & Young. In March of 2026, Ms. Bialas was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Insurance Federation of New York, Inc. (IFNY).