OUR TEAM
SARAH BYRNES
FOUNDER & CEO
Sarah Byrnes maintains over 25 years of expertise leading and directing thousands of complex investigative assignments across domestic and international jurisdictions. Her knowledge and experience has contributed to providing key intelligence to clients including multinational law firms and enterprises, finance and lending institutions, family offices, Private Equity, politicians, government agencies, and entertainers.
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As an expert in fact-finding and critical analysis, Sarah focuses on matters relating to pre-transactional and investigative due diligence, corporate and financial fraud and misconduct, civil litigation support, and global asset tracing matters.
With a strong passion and long history of providing litigation support, Sarah enjoys working closely with in-house and outside counsel to assist in achieving litigation objectives. Having earned an exemplary reputation for her analysis of complex matters, Sarah frequently works with counsel and clients beyond the investigation level, being brought in to consult on litigation and case strategies.​
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Sarah has spoken on matters ranging from the investigating of complex fraud matters to the managing of multifaceted field operations and has consulted on several Hollywood entertainment projects. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from UCLA. Among her many professional, civic and philanthropic affiliations, Sarah is a licensed private investigator in the states of Texas and California and has served as a board member of several organizations including Temple Israel of Hollywood and the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation’s Counsel for Justice. She is an active member in the Womens President Organization, a group leader for Provisors (Austin chapter) and has been active in numerous social action causes including Step Up! Women’s Network, the Jewish Federation’s Koreh LA literacy program, Spark mentoring program, Big Sunday and numerous pro bono assignments.

THE FOLKS MAKING IT HAPPEN
We've built our reputation by combining in-depth industry skills, practical technologies and innovative processes, backed by a team of professionals who never lose sight of the value of old-fashioned hard work
RESEARCH TEAM
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With unique and diverse backgrounds, members of MegaGroup’s Research Team possess a deep breadth of knowledge in a variety of research fields, operating continuously at each level of investigation and providing foundation for work performed by the Field Operative and Digital Forensic teams.
Members of the Research Team are Certified Fraud Examiners and play a critical role in supporting all assignments undertaken.
FIELD OPERATIVE TEAM
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MegaGroup’s Field Operative Team is comprised of former law enforcement personnel and intelligence operatives who share a passion for boots-on-the-ground intelligence gathering.
All MegaGroup’s field operatives are licensed private investigators and registered process servers with a minimum of 15 years field experience.
DIGITAL FORENSIC TEAM
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Members of the MegaGroup Digital Forensics team adhere to the highest standards of electronic data collection and analysis and include seasoned professionals with backgrounds in CIA, NSA, USAF, FBI, federal and local law enforcement, along with computer forensic professionals and technologically savvy investigators.