Our team
Due to the multi-faceted nature of our projects, Surveilligence uses the experience and knowledge of experts from partner companies to create strong and efficient multidisciplinary investigative teams comprised of forensic investigators, lawyers, financial auditors, IT experts, and valuation and corporate finance specialists.
If requested by the client or depending on the type of information required, our team members may include selected detectives with police experience, who work for one of our associate detective agencies.
According to the nature of the project, we cooperate with experts in the specific areas under review. We have worked, for example, with marketing specialists, media professionals and civil engineering experts.
Ing. Ján Lalka, CFE
Ján Lalka is managing director and founder of Surveilligence.
Ján has many years of experience in fraud detection and investigation, data analyses, internal control system reviews and operational and market risk management at companies and banks. He worked at a major multinational bank, where he was involved in managing the bank’s market risks, and in a Czech financial group operating in the fields of venture capital, investment banking and restructuring, and helped found, start up and manage a financial company focused on factoring financing for companies. Prior to founding Surveilligence, Ján spent four years at Deloitte.
Ján graduated from University of Žilina, Slovakia, and received a diploma from two-year postgraduate studies at Academia Istropolitana Nova in Bratislava. Ján is a member of the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
His professional experience includes:
- Involvement in many forensic engagements in global and local private firms and major municipalities as forensic fraud examiner and responsible partner. The projects included complex fraud investigations, tracing of company assets, fraud prevention reviews, investigations of financial statement fraud, internal audit assistance, background searches and identifications of undisclosed relationships.
- Lecturing at institutions on fraud detection, investigation and prevention, including ACFE, CIIA (Czech Institute of Internal Auditors), Institute of bank education of National Bank of Slovakia, ASIS International and Economic University Bratislava.
Jan’s working experience covers Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Kosovo.
Ing. Pavol Suďa
Pavol Suďa, Head of Investigations and director of Surveilligence, is responsible for development of the Slovak branch of Surveilligence. He has 18-year experience in a deep analysis of Slovak economy with accent on public finance, and financial & corporate sectors. He managed and personally participated in teams, which searched, processed and evaluated background information from the business, which mapped commercial and personal relations in enterprises, which analyzed various sectors of economy and reported on frauds in private as well as public sphere.
Parallel to praxis in media, Paul participated in various studies on business environment in Slovakia cooperating with Business Alliance of Slovakia, National Union of Employers or F. A. Hayek Foundation.
Paul graduated in 1998 from University of Economics in Bratislava. His professional experience includes:
- Since 1995 he worked for TREND weekly, first as a reporter, later as a senior editor and finally as an editor-in-chief.
- He was a founder and developer of the first business website in Slovakia eTrend.sk.
- He has established and for years managed research unit of TREND weekly – TREND Analyses, processing and creating business databases and studies mainly on various branches of manufacturing in Slovakia.
- He participated in development of evaluation models, according to which TREND weekly awards Firm of the year, Bank of the year and Insurance Company of the year.
Paul is an associate member of the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) and a member of the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors.
