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GetData Forensics is a team of I.T. professionals passionate about computer forensics and specifically supporting law enforcement officers in their daily work.

Founded in 2003, GetData is widely known for its home user data recovery products with more than 1 million licenses worldwide. Having backgrounds in computer forensics for government and private sector, our mission is to create powerful but cost effective products to meet challenges that investigators face in an I.T. saturated world.

Key staff members include:

  • John Hunter (Director) has a Ba. App. Sci. from Sydney University and a number of post graduate computing qualifications. John spent 9 years in law enforcement as a computer forensics examiner and has provided expert data recovery evidence in numerous jurisdictions. John has also worked as a senior member of PricewaterhouseCoopers Forensic Technology Services.
  • Dr Brett Hunter (Director) has a PhD in Physics from University of New South Wales, Australia. His field of specialty includes the use of neutron scattering to study high temperature superconductors and other related oxides. He has worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization where he programmed applications for the study of neutron diffraction. Brett is author/co-author of over 100 refereed scientific publications.
  • Graham Henley (Director) has a Ba. App. Sci. from the University of Technology Sydney. He spent eleven years as a Federal Agent specializing as a computer forensics examiner. Graham then led PricewaterhouseCoopers Asia Pacific Computer Forensics practice and has performed major forensics and data recovery assignments around the world.
  • John (Zeke) Thackray (Vice President – Head of Training) is former British military then Yorkshire Police detective who specialized in hi-tech crime from the early 1990’s. He has also led the New Zealand Police Electronic Crime Unit, and worked with Ernst and Young and IBM Global IT Security Incident Response Group. Zeke is well known in the industry as a forensics trainer for a number of different forensics products.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of assistance to your organization.