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| Walter Pavlo Jr., founder of Etika, LLC, is a popular national speaker who has made keynote addresses at America’s top business schools, professional societies, Fortune 500 companies, accounting firms, and federal law enforcement agencies. His story and presentations have been featured by Forbes magazine, USA Today, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and ABC’s Nightline. A number of organizations use his experience as the basis of case studies and documentaries aimed at educating students and business people about white-collar crime.
Pavlo holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from Mercer University. He worked in finance roles at Goodyear Tire and GEC Avionics before joining MCI Communications, where he rose quickly to oversee a department handling $2 billion in annual collections. In January 2001, Pavlo pleaded guilty to embezzling $6 million from his employer and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. He began serving a two-year prison sentence later that year. |
While in prison in 2002, Pavlo sent a letter to Forbes Senior Editor Neil Weinberg, outlining his own crimes as well as the corruption he had witnessed in the telecom industry. The letter led to a jailhouse interview and profile later that year in Forbes.
The FBI agent who had arrested Pavlo read the article and sprang him from prison to address federal agents about his misdeeds and the environment that bred them. Following his permanent prison release in 2003, Pavlo began speaking to university students, accountants and corporate groups across the country in the hope that his cautionary tale will warn others away from similar crimes. He formed Etika, LLC in 2005 to further that effort. Since then, he has teamed up with Weinberg to co-author Stolen Without A Gun, a fast-paced account of Pavlo’s crimes and their consequences.
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What People Say:We have received great feedback from our students and instructors who both found your remarks insightful and stimulating.Douglas Guthrie, PhD, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYUYou are doing a true public serivce. Ethan Stone, Assc. Professor Ethan Stone, College of Law, University of IowaYou made no attempts to sweet-coat your past actions, but took full responsibility for those actions. You opened the eyes of many of our corporate attendees concerning their internal corporate procedures. Thomas B. Kirkpatrick, President Chicago Crime Commission |
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