Nicoletta Kotsianas

Chief Professional Officer and Co-Founding Principal Nicoletta Kotsianas is a journalist-turned-investigator with a proven track record in leading high-stakes inquiries and extracting valuable and routinely actionable information for clients.

She has broad experience managing cases and building teams to service the risk advisory needs and investigative objectives of law firms, C-suite executives, board members and high net worth individuals.

Nicoletta is also a seasoned expert in conducting and leading multinational teams in global asset tracing assignments, including in sovereign matters. She also has deep experience supporting clients in proxy and short-seller battles.

Before co-founding Jetty Partners, Nicoletta held Managing Director roles at K2 Integrity and The Mintz Group, where she led litigation support engagements and internal investigations.

Nicoletta began her career in financial journalism, and her well-honed interview skills are relied upon to help clients build case narratives and connect dots, whether speaking to threat actors, whistleblowers, or fact witnesses. She has managed hundreds of investigations including for clients across all major business sectors, and delivered game changing results in matters including, but not limited to, M&A, pre-investment, and ESG due diligence, allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse, and attribution research.

Nicoletta is also a trusted advisor to clients on fraud and scam matters and her groundbreaking work has resulted in multiple law enforcement referrals and arrests. This work includes her lead role in the takedown of a highly publicized international fraudster known as The Con Queen of Hollywood. In that case, which has garnered international media coverage, Nicoletta was instrumental in unraveling an epic scam that spanned three continents over more than a decade and took in hundreds of victims.

When not digging on behalf of her clients, Nicoletta is a proud Girl Scout leader, and dance and baseball Mom.