Pav Gill
Whistleblower • Lawyer & Tech Founder
• Global Keynote Speaker
Whistleblower • Lawyer & Tech Founder
• Global Keynote Speaker
THE DOCUMENTARY
On premiere day, Pav told the Financial Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung to reveal his identity as the Wirecard whistleblower.
33rd ACFE Global Fraud Conference. On the same program as Michael Lewis (The Big Short), Gurbir Grewal (SEC Director of Enforcement), Alex Gibney (Oscar-winning filmmaker) and Rachel Wilson (Morgan Stanley, Head of Cybersecurity).
A €24 Billion Company
Hired Me As Their Lawyer.
I Chose The Truth.
It Cost Them Everything.
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
Your audience will hear from someone who lived it, not studied it. Raised in Singapore with a career spanning three continents, Pav brings a multicultural perspective to every stage, speaking candidly and with humor that catches you off guard.
The world's largest accounting fraud. The world's largest fintech fraud. Your team will walk away understanding how a €24 billion fraud went undetected across regulators, auditors and an entire market, what systemic failures enabled it and why the warning signs were ignored at every level. A case study in governance failure that is now taught at leading colleges including Harvard Business School, University of Toronto, and Singapore Management University.
Your board will leave with concrete tools for director responsibility, risk oversight and early detection of misconduct. Why most whistleblowing programs fail, how to design systems people will actually use and what separates real governance from box-ticking.
Your leaders will confront the hardest question in corporate life: what do you do when doing the right thing could cost you everything? An unflinching account of the psychological toll of standing alone against a corporation, the death threats, the isolation and how to lead when the pressure is designed to break you.
Your compliance and legal teams will leave with practical tools to manage misconduct reports, protect reporters and build trust in internal systems. A hands-on masterclass, not a lecture.
TRUSTED BY
I blew the whistle on Europe's largest corporate fraud. €24 billion in market value erased. Executives jailed. The COO exposed as a long-term GRU operative now living under FSB protection in Moscow. The fallout contributed to the EU Whistleblowing Directive covering 27 countries, reformed how Germany's financial regulator BaFin operates and changed payments oversight across Europe.
Before Wirecard, I spent 15+ years in financial services and fintech, from Magic Circle law firms (Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance) to General Counsel roles across Asia Pacific. I saw from within how companies scale, how they collapse and the cost of silence.
Now I'm building Confide Platform, the governance, risk and compliance software everyone wishes existed. ISO 27001 Certified, SOC 2 Type I Compliant, backed by Founders Factory with a strategic partnership with KPMG in the EU. My current focus: AI governance risk, the accountability gap in corporate compliance and why the next Wirecard-scale failure is preventable.
Inscribed "For Choosing Truth Over Self." Presented at the 33rd ACFE Global Fraud Conference (5,000+ attendees) alongside Michael Lewis, SEC Director of Enforcement Gurbir Grewal and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.
Special Recognition for integrity and bravery in the public interest. Shared category with former Google AI team member Margaret Mitchell.
Founder & CEO
Confide Platform • 2023 – Present
Magic Circle Lawyer & Fintech GC
15+ years across financial services & fintech
Accredited Director, Singapore Institute of Directors • Course Trainer, Asia School of Business (Malaysia) • Harvard Business School Case Study Subject
MEDIA & PRESS
Featured in two major documentaries, profiled across global financial press and cited in academic case studies worldwide.
Sky Studios "Wirecard: The Billion Euro Lie" (2021)
Netflix "Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard" (2022)
The Economist Named by The Economist for bravery in exposing the Wirecard scandal
Financial Times Multiple features including cover story
Bloomberg Confide Platform launch coverage
Süddeutsche Zeitung One of the largest digital features in the newspaper's history
Neue Zürcher Zeitung Dedicated profile feature
Esquire The true story behind the Wirecard scandal
Wired Feature on Confide and whistleblowing
CNBC Whistleblower protection commentary
Fraud Magazine Cover story (March/April 2022)
Ropes & Gray "Culture & Compliance Chronicles"
Norton Rose Fulbright "Global Investigations"
LumiQ "Most listened to episodes of the year"
Harvard Business School Wirecard case study
Singapore Management University Two-part Case Study
Asia School of Business Course Trainer
Wirecard is taught at business schools globally as a governance failure case
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