Guy Ficco, Former IRS Criminal Investigation Chief, Joins Sayari as Strategic Advisor

Sayari, the leading provider of risk intelligence and visibility into complex commercial networks, today announces that Guy Ficco has joined the company as a strategic advisor. Ficco retired in April 2026 as Chief of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) — the senior law enforcement role overseeing 2,300 special agents operating across 20 field offices and 11 countries.

His career ran the full distance: Special Agent in New York starting in 1995, through a progression of leadership roles at the Washington Field Office, Director of Special Investigative Techniques, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Office, and ultimately Chief and Deputy Chief at the Senior Executive Service level. Along the way, he led complex investigations of tax evasion, money laundering, sanctions violations, bribery, cyber-crime, and terrorist financing. He worked directly with FinCEN, OFAC, and the Treasury Financial Intelligence office. He oversaw the national undercover and technical operations program and managed the agency's relationship with the Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture — a portfolio that ran to tens of millions of dollars annually. He holds a Certified Fraud Examiner designation and a Chainalysis Crypto Fundamentals certification.

The threat picture Ficco spent three decades mapping from inside government is exactly what Sayari is built to surface from the outside. The shell companies, the layered beneficial ownership structures, the front companies routing money through jurisdictions with weak disclosure regimes: these are not hypothetical risks. They are documented patterns — and the people who documented them most thoroughly were the investigators. Ficco was one of them, and then he ran them.

Sayari's Commercial World Model resolves over 11 billion primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions to build the ground truth of global commerce. The question that model has always needed to answer is: what does an investigator actually need to see? What data gaps let illicit actors stay invisible? Where does coverage fail? Those are questions that only someone who has built cases from the other side of the table can answer credibly.

"I have had the great honor of working with Sayari for several years now, getting to see how impactful their products are," said Ficco. "They are top notch and I am excited to join the team."

Ficco joins Sayari as a strategic advisor, bringing a practitioner's perspective on how financial crime investigations actually work and how the commercial intelligence that supports them can be made more complete. His current work includes a Senior Investigator role at Kostelanetz LLP and an advisory role at Variance, which builds agentic AI for fraud and compliance investigations.

Sayari is trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Treasury, and Fortune 500 enterprises across 35+ countries. The financial crime tradecraft embedded in the Sayari platform reflects more than a decade of building toward exactly the kind of real-world investigative expertise Guy brings to this role.