Philip M. Robertson

Mr. Robertson serves as a Senior Special Agent for the Eastern Region Office of Investigations of the FDIC Office of Inspector General. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BS in Business Administration. In 1971 he was appointed a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service and subsequently served in several field offices, as well as five years in the Vice Presidential Protective Division. He retired from the Secret Service in 1991 and was appointed a Special Agent of the Resolution Trust Corporation Office of Inspector General in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With the merger of the RTC and FDIC in 1995, he was transferred to the Eastern Region Office in Atlanta. He has received recognition for his investigative efforts, has supervised and investigated a number of large and complicated bank failures, and spent five years assigned to the New England Bank Fraud Task Force in Boston. He currently coordinates the FDIC OIG's efforts in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico involving three failed institutions with combined assets of $28 billion. Agent Robertson has lectured on financial institution fraud for a number of professional, state, and federal agencies including the Ohio Association of CPAs, Arkansas Department of Banking, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philidelphia. He has been a regular lecturer at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Fraud Seminar as well as trained prosecutors for the US Department of Justice. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Georgia Southern University Center for Forensic Studies in Accounting and Business and has addressed accounting education conferences hosted by West Virginia Univeristy and Georgia Southern University. He and his wife reside in the Atlanta area.