About
Ms. Xanthos is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner with over ten years of experience working exclusively in litigation. She has a master’s degree in forensic accounting and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She has provided litigation support to attorneys for a broad range of matters including commercial litigation, marital dissolution, investment frauds, lost profit disputes, fraud investigations, asset tracing, money laundering, bankruptcies, and damage calculations.
Throughout the course of her career, Ms. Xanthos has worked on numerous civil and criminal investigations including reviews of alleged misconduct by a state senator and local politicians. She has participated in several high profile divorce cases and investment fraud cases. Ms. Xanthos participated in financial record reconstruction and lost profit analyses for two large scale disasters – the BP oil spill in 2010 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She is well versed in a number of industry areas including real estate, insurance, construction, banking, health care, and securities.
Ms. Xanthos was a financial advisor in an earlier career and developed extensive securities related experience during those years. She has assisted in many reviews involving financial instrument frauds on both the State and Federal levels and has also contributed her expertise to international cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Ms. Xanthos is adept at utilizing technology to optimally assimilate data from multiple sources. She takes pride in her ability not only to analyze mountains of data, but also to effectively communicate her findings. She considers her role to be both that of an accountant and that of a financial translator of sorts – converting complex findings into easily digestible facts. Many of the fraud cases Ms. Xanthos has worked on involved presenting findings to juries. These cases presented special communication challenges in that many jurors were not well prepared to understand the intricate financial concepts necessary for them to render well-informed decisions. Working on these cases helped Ms. Xanthos to hone her skills in creating clear and concise trial graphics and reports.
Ms. Xanthos recently moved to Asheville from South Florida with her family and has transferred her CPA license to North Carolina. She has already been accepted within the 28th Judicial District as an expert witnesses and is happy to provide local references upon request.