Our Instructors
Meet our core team
Debra Geister
Founder and CEO
Debra Geister is an industry catalyst with 25+ years shaping the systems that safeguard the global financial ecosystem. As the curriculum’s architect, she aims to measurably advance the fight against financial crime through the Hybrid Threat Finance™ Methodology, a framework that gives practitioners investigative precision and a technological edge to expose and eliminate complex threats.
Robert Bacon
Law Enforcement Instructor
Robert Bacon is a seasoned investigator and intelligence analyst with 30+ years in international operations, domestic law enforcement, and military service. As a principal instructor and course developer he uses his background in counter-terrorist finance and anti-money laundering to train the next generation of financial crime fighters. His background with the NYPD, DEA, and international units gives students insight into the intersection of law enforcement and financial intelligence.
Suzanne Lynch
Graduate Level Professor
Suzanne Lynch combines high-level corporate strategy with academic rigor in financial crime. Her leadership experience at Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, and Comerica gives her insider insight into vulnerabilities in modern payment systems. As former Director of graduate programs at Utica University, she trained the next generation of investigators, translating complex risk analysis into actionable intelligence.
Dr. Donna J. Broussard
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Broussard holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Management and is an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University. Teaching has guided her leadership—from mentoring junior soldiers to training executives on AI-driven risk intelligence. In Fortune 500 roles or combat-zone labs, she applies a single standard: mission-ready, audit-proof, and built to last.
Why go further
The Accelerator isn't another introduction to financial crime typologies, it's built for people who already have the fundamentals and want the depth and the credential that come with mastering Hybrid Threat Finance as a discipline, not just a course.
Why these courses
Every course here is grounded in real cases and real enforcement actions, not hypothetical scenarios built to illustrate a textbook point. You're not memorizing a framework — you're learning to apply it to the kind of case that actually lands on your desk.
Why these experts
These courses are taught by practitioners, not instructors reading from slides. Our instructors bring credentials from academia and the field—university leadership plus decades in financial institutions, law enforcement, and the military—to teach how it's actually practiced.
Why get certified
Certification is the finish line. The path from Foundation to Certified HTF Practitioner centers on the Hybrid Threat Finance™ Methodology, proven to uncover who is behind it and drastically cutting detection errors.
Individual or corporate
Individual growth. Corporate scale.
Whether you're working toward certification or sharpening your expertise with an expert-led course in a niche topic, the path is yours to set — on your own, at your own pace, or together as a team. Alongside individual learning, we offer bespoke group and corporate training built around your organization's specific risk exposure, staff, and timeline.
Education & course content highlights
We are here to upskill you
We aim to change the world by disrupting financial crime. Crime knows no borders and the sophistication of criminal organizations grows with its ability to adapt. In a world with shifting geopolitical and economic landscapes, it is important to stay up-to-date with how their criminal business models evolve.
Online courses
We provide online courses that prepares you for the real world. We offer an array of courses that cover advanced approaches and methodologies, to niche skills that are required to understand what is happening and counteract it. e.
Forward Thinking
We believe in our own on-going education and keeping up with state-of-the-art technology and industry standards. This ensures our students receive quality instruction while being able to manage their time effectively.
Quality Content
Staying at the top of your field means pursuing education and earning certificates that matter in a competitive world. It’s more important than ever to maintain an edge over the competition.
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