Sergio Robleto is the founder and Executive Managing Director of Applied Facts. He has 39 years of experience in security consulting and investigations.

Robleto’s investigative experience includes internal investigations involving self-dealing, theft of trade secrets, intellectual property, credit card and ATM fraud. He has overseen and conducted complex fraud investigations for insurance companies, financial institutions, and major studios. During one complex fraud investigation, he created a system to successfully track a Middle Eastern terrorist criminal ring involved in a $10 million fraud, which victimized 30 banks and countless individuals.

Robleto is an expert on investigations, including corporate internal fraud. Robleto spent 25 years on the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”), where his duties included serving as Adjutant to the Deputy Chief of Operations. Robleto worked extensively on white collar criminal matters as the Officer in Charge of the fifty-member, Metropolitan Forgery Section of the Los Angeles Police Department. The section was responsible for investigating forgery, counterfeiting, embezzlement, and fraud for the City of Los Angeles.

Robleto performs consulting work on international theft of trade secrets, piracy and fraud situations both for the private and public sectors from Latin America to the Middle East. His work has led to successful investigations in India, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, United States, Peru, Britain, Spain, the Canary Islands and Dubai. Because of his experience he has been a guest expert/commentator on 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN, Dateline and Southern California television and radio news stations speaking on terrorism, corporate security and law enforcement procedures.

Robleto is an expert in law enforcement investigations including Homicides. At the time Robleto retired from the LAPD, he was the Commanding Officer of South Bureau Homicide. He drafted the State of California’s first witness protection statute, which came into effect in January 1998. His leadership of South Bureau Homicide was profiled in a feature article in the Los Angeles Times and was featured in the bestselling book, The Killing Season, by Miles Corwin.

Previously, Robleto was a Managing Director with Kroll Inc. While there, he conducted and coordinated numerous corporate business intelligence and internal investigations, including overseeing threat assessments and security reviews for the Western United States. Post 9-11, Robleto was asked to coordinate security for several motion picture studios and also performed a major security assessment for the Port of Long Beach.

Robleto has lectured on “Complex International Counterfeiting Investigations,” at the annual meeting of the Imagine Supplies Coalition and on the use of high-technology for security at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has been a member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition, the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, INTA and the American Society for Industrial Security (“ASIS”). He is a proud former US Marine.