Bernard J. Murphy, Sterling IS

Bernard J. Murphy
Managing Partner

Brian J. Kelly
Managing Partner

Bernard J. Murphy
Managing Partner

Robert J. Lenehan
Vice President

Ken Vitty
V.P. of Auto & Technical
Forensic Division

Matthew X. Holleran
Vice President

Mr. Murphy is a member of the Maryland Bar and a seasoned executive and business professional with over 30 years of government and corporate experience.

He graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law and was admitted to the Bar in 1969. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He was a Special Agent of the FBI for over 20 years and served in a number of management and executive capacities including as a supervisor of Civil Litigation in the Bureau’s Office of Legal Counsel; Special Assistant to the Assistant Director for the Criminal Division in Washington D.C. and for his last 5 years of service as the #2 field executive in the FBI’s 7th largest office in Newark, New Jersey. He was responsible for all field organized crime, drug and white-collar crime investigations as well as the Newark office undercover, technical and special operations programs.

In 1991 Mr. Murphy retired from the FBI to accept the position of Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of Bally Manufacturing Corporation. He served at the same time as Senior Vice President of Governmental Relations for Bally’s Health & Tennis (now Bally’s Total Fitness) and Vice President of Corporate Compliance for the parent company, Bally Manufacturing Corporation.

After merging with Hilton Hotels in 1996 Mr. Murphy was elected Senior Vice President of Corporate Compliance for the Beverly Hills Casino/Hotel Company. In 1998 he was appointed Special Counsel for International Affairs and resigned from Park Place Entertainment after its spin off from Hilton Hotels in early 1999.

Since March of 1999 Mr. Murphy has been a partner and now a managing partner of DBK Protection LLC, New Jersey’s largest Insurance Fraud/Origin and Cause Investigative Company. He also owns and is a managing partner of Winchester Bay Properties and Conover’s Management Company, which owns and manages properties on the New Jersey Shore, north of Atlantic City.

He is a member of the State Department of Overseas Security Advisory Committee and a Trustee of the Colonel David B. Kelly Foundation.