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Shamara Ferguson Edwards

Managing Director, Forensic & Integrity Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Transformative leader who brings diverse teams and innovative solutions to assist clients with investigating and resolving challenging problems. Wife. Mother. DEI champion. Mentor.

Shamara is a Charlotte-based financial services leader on the Forensics team serving clients and their outside counsel with regulatory and compliance matters, internal investigations and remediation efforts. She has over 20 years of experience and has led some of the firm’s largest reviews, working alongside management, in-house and outside counsel to help resolve complex regulatory matters, including large data-driven reviews, internal and external investigations, compliance reviews and loan file reviews. She advises clients to rethink their approach by leveraging technology and data analytics to resolve both old and new challenges.

Shamara is a certified fraud examiner and certified anti-money laundering professional. She has a BS in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an AAS in Accountancy from Northern Virginia College.

How Shamara is building a better working world

“I try to build a better working world by sharing knowledge, being impactful and driving progress to make a difference for both our clients and our EY professionals. I strive to serve as a transformational leader who inspires and is trustworthy. 

Every day before my daughter gets on the bus, she reminds me to be positive. Her words help me to push forward to exemplify a relentless passion for doing the right thing, coaching, mentoring our professionals and striving to leave the working world in a better place than when I entered it.”

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