Meet the Team

  • Jody Freshwater

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Jody is an intelligence and investigations specialist with 20 years of public and private sector experience. Prior to starting Silverbridge, he was the Chief Operating Officer at a long-standing London-based corporate investigations boutique where he was responsible for managing the teams involved in enhanced due diligence assignments, fraud investigations and litigation support. His time in the public sector includes working in intelligence at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the National Crime Agency) and, before that, for the Service Authorities of the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. He has extensive experience of working on complex cross-border investigations requiring the preservation of evidence for use in civil and criminal proceedings, including private prosecutions and worldwide freezing orders.

    Jody regularly advises FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 corporations, high net worth individuals and litigation practices.

  • Nick Plested

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Nick has worked in the intelligence and investigations sector since 2003. Prior to Silverbridge, Nick’s experience includes senior positions at several London-based corporate intelligence firms, latterly as director of Strategic Intelligence at Bishop International. He was also a manager within KPMG’s forensic and risk advisory practice, and has completed international secondments, including to the risk management team at a Toronto-based bank. Between 2013 and 2020 he was a Vice President within the European asset management arm of Cerberus Capital and oversaw the servicing of distressed loan assets across the UK and Europe. Nick has deep industry experience relating to real estate, insolvency, and finance. He is a full member of R3, a leading UK Insolvency Association.

    Nick regularly advises debts funds and banks on strategy relating to NPLs (non-performing loans) and asset recovery.

  • Vitalijs Nagurnijs

    SENIOR ASSOCIATE

    Vit is an experienced investigator with expertise in digital investigations, open-source and human intelligence. Prior to joining Silverbridge, he worked at several corporate intelligence firms including Alaco, Mintz Group and Bishop Group, where he conducted global enhanced due diligence, corporate and intellectual property infringement investigations. Vit has also worked at Zinc Network and Logically AI, where he delivered strategic intelligence and investigations for state actors and NGOs aimed at countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

    Vit has an undergraduate degree in international relations and post-graduate degree in security studies, both from the University of Sussex.

  • Amber Dawson

    SENIOR ASSOCIATE

    Amber has almost two decades of experience in the intelligence and investigations sector. Prior to joining Silverbridge, Amber ran her own open source intelligence business, providing investigative research and analysis services for many of the market-leading corporate investigations providers, as well as specialist mid-size and boutique firms, asset recovery specialists and not-for-profit organisations. Her career in the industry began in the corporate investigations department of the global risk and strategic consulting firm Control Risks, where she became a Senior Consultant in the Africa practice. She has supported and managed hundreds of enhanced due diligence, litigation support, kleptocracy and asset tracing investigations in multiple jurisdictions, including in French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries.

    Amber has an undergraduate degree in French and Hispanic Studies and a post-graduate degree in Interpreting and Translation.

  • Kathryn Breitner

    CONSULTANT

    Kathryn is an experienced strategist who sits on the advisory board for the Terrence Higgins Trust and has headed community campaigns for a major political organisation, as well as serving as Director for a national human rights campaign. She has extensive experience of working in consultancy roles specialising in risk and compliance, and diversity and inclusion. She worked as a senior consultant providing business development and strategic advisory services for a firm providing risk management and recruitment services for senior executives and non-executives.

    Kathryn has a postgraduate degree in Law and previously worked in financial services.