Siobhan Forster

Senior Director
  10+ years of experience providing IT system delivery and technical product assessments
Provides pre-dispute technical consultancy and litigation expert advisory in all phases of technical disputes
Expertise in technical delivery, measurement of programme and project performance, fitness for purpose and delay analysis
London
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Siobhan Forster is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in London. She specializes in providing advisory and expert services in information technology and information systems disputes, insurance claims and litigations. Her primary areas of concentration are IT/IS technical delivery, the measurement of programme and project performance, fitness for purpose/requirements benchmarking and delay analysis.

Ms. Forster brings more than a decade of experience providing IT/IS system delivery assessments (latterly including crypto and blockchain implementation disputes), alongside best practice development and project management advisory (across varying methodologies). She is also experienced in database design, software copyright and data rights infringement analysis and breach and remediation advisory pertaining to IT/IS contracts and warranty SLAs.   

Ms. Forster’s notable assignments include serving as the Lead Analyst of the expert team in Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd (instructed on behalf of the Claimants). She has worked with clients across various industries and sectors, including retail, banking, aerospace, automotive and medical.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Forster spent three years with Kroll Advisory Ltd in their Data Insights and Forensics team in London, where she served as Senior Director.

Ms Forster earned a bachelor’s degree (honours) in forensic computing from the University of Central Lancashire. She is a Chartered IT professional and member of the British Computer Society. Ms. Forster holds certification in IT Service Management, Project Management and TRM crypto investigations. She is a member of the Society for Computers and Law.

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