Skills

SOURCE DEVELOPMENT & RECRUITING
Special Agent Purser, when working organized crime in New York City, personally recruited and managed members of two organized crime families. Such timely development of informants illustrates Ben’s ability to infiltrate closed networks and deliver unimpeachable results.

PROSECUTORIAL PREPARATION
Both as a field agent and as an Agent In Charge, Special Agent Purser worked with Assistant U.S. Attorneys to coordinate effective prosecutions. One example of this is Special Agent Purser’s handling of an organized crime case: He worked with the prosecution to coordinate and acquire electronic surveillance, financial records, and other evidence to bring indictments against 21 people for
disparate and non-overlapping crimes including, but not limited to, conspiracy to commit homicide and importation of narcotics. The case was presented so effectively that all 21 defendants pled guilty. This example illustrates Ben’s track record of effective partnership with prosecutors and
gives him specific abilities to understand what it takes to bring cases to trial and the standards and practices necessary for convictions.

OPERATIONAL PLANNING & EXECUTION
After taking over the Nashville FBI office, Special Agent Purser learned of potential corruption within the Tennessee Legislature. Using groundbreaking methods, he personally designed a long-term operation that received unprecedented approvals from the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General of the United States. Special Agent Purser’s investigation ultimately resulted in more than 65 convictions—including legislators and senior state executives. Such creative management exemplifies Ben’s ability to envision and implement long-term, big-picture operations that deliver results against entrenched and protected interest groups.

INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION & BRIDGE-BUILDING
When Special Agent Purser began to address violent crime in Tennessee, he quickly realized that the nature of the criminal activity transcended traditional jurisdictions; as such, he worked with organizations to create a new unit, the Violent Crimes Task Force. That unit, unencumbered by narrow legal limitations, produced more than 100 convictions in the first year. Ben’s abilities to work across institutional divides, build partnerships, and create new organizational capacities mean that he can accomplish tasks regardless of the bureaucratic constraints on his clients.

CODIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES
Both within the private sector and for the Tennessee Department of Revenue, Ben worked with employees across all business practices to create broad standards of individual and enterprise “codes of conduct.” After working to determine what different functions employees and offices
needed to perform, he researched all relevant laws, industry practices, and certification standards. With this knowledge he designed, codified, and implemented codes of conduct to direct the behavior of individuals and the business as a whole. This helped to maintain internal transparency while protecting proprietary information, thus insulating the enterprise from external risk. Ben’s experience developing rapid and intimate familiarity with all elements of a business, creating big-picture guidelines for how those operations should be conducted, and working with individual employees to realize those codified standards gives him the ability to deliver real-time, measurable improvements in compliance.