LoDo computer-forensics firm Forensic Pursuit hiring two

CEO Rob Kelso's career path veered from rocket science to software engineering to computer forensics when he co-founded Forensic Pursuit with COO Chris Schmidt in 2006.

 

"We help clients avoid answering, 'I don't know,' in court," says Kelso. "We investigate other people's computers, usually to find things they were trying to hide."

 

Clients are "almost exclusively attorneys," says Kelso. "We're not data-recovery people -- we won't get back your family photos -- and we're not IT people -- we won't fix your computer."

 

What Forensic Pursuit will do is find out who's hacking the system or deleting files.

 

Kelso and Schmidt launched a sister company, Security Pursuit, in 2012 to do security assessments for the corporate market. "Our clients are almost always companies who are worried about being hacked." The company's "professional hackers" use low- and high-tech means to test a company's vulnerability.

 

Both Forensic Pursuit and Security Pursuit both have three employees in Denver (Forensic Pursuit also has four employees in eastern cities), and Kelso plans to hire one to each team in the near term.

 

"It would not surprise me if we doubled our revenue this year," he says. "The more lawsuits, the better."

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