Professional Profile

Stephen R. Marlow

President and CEO

Steve Marlow became a licensed private investigator in Arizona in 1977 following three years of service in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.

Mr. Marlow has conducted investigations for such diverse clients as the Arizona Attorney General, the Arizona Department of Insurance, the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions, and many of Arizona's largest law firms, corporations and financial institutions. Between 1989 and 1994, he performed over five hundred investigations for the Resolution Trust Corporation.

In the mid-1980’s Mr. Marlow was a prime contractor for conducting security clearances, under Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines, during the construction of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.

Throughout his career Mr. Marlow has specialized in conducting internal investigations of theft, fraud and workplace drug issues, resulting in numerous successful criminal prosecutions.

• In 1993, under retainer to Allied Signal Corp., he was responsible for the largest recovery of stolen property ever achieved by a private investigator in Arizona.

• That investigation also resulted in the first restitution order ever awarded for the costs of a private investigation in a criminal case in Arizona.

• In 1995 an internal investigation conducted by Mr. Marlow for the publisher of the Arizona Republic resulted in indictments against twelve employees on a total of 44 felony counts, believed to be the most felony charges ever filed in Arizona as the result of a private investigation.

• Over the past ten years Mr. Marlow has obtained a 100% conviction rate on over 50 felony cases prosecuted in Maricopa County alone.

Mr. Marlow has been a featured speaker at many seminars and training sessions, including the annual conference of the National Association of Credit Card Fraud Investigators, the Arizona Association of Credit Professionals, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and the Scottsdale Small Business Association.

He has also conducted training on background, research, financial and asset investigations for the legal and paralegal staffs of many of Arizona’s major law firms and for the reporting staff of the Arizona Republic.

In addition, Mr. Marlow:

• has been a member of the American Society of Industrial Security since 1981;

• is a charter member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners;

• has served numerous times as an officer and director of the Arizona Association of Licensed Private Investigators and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1987;

• in 1993 served on an advisory committee funded by the U.S. Department of Justice that developed and published “Combating Workplace Drug Crimes - Guidelines for Businesses, Law Enforcement and Prosecutors.”