Our Team

As the founder of Catalyst Intelligence, Mr. Pikor is an accomplished executive with over twenty years of experience conducting high-stakes investigations on behalf of prominent law firms, Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions and high-profile individuals. He specializes in complex due diligence research, cyber investigations and asset tracing, and has extensive experience in the practice areas of workplace investigations, intellectual property disputes and class-action litigation. Mr. Pikor’s ability to unearth “hidden” financial, legal, business and online references about a party, and identify connections with other seemingly unrelated parties, has been a hallmark of his success as an investigator over the past two decades.

With access to an array of commercial databases as well as numerous proprietary online search tools and a global network of well-placed investigative assets, Mr. Pikor regularly works with investment firms and sophisticated investors to develop in-depth profiles of prospective investment targets and their executive management teams.

Mr. Pikor’s investigative findings have been utilized in court proceedings involving commercial loan defaults. At trial, testimony provided by Mr. Pikor helped secure a guilty verdict against an investor accused of making fraudulent asset transfers to avoid satisfying a multi-million dollar construction loan. In a separate matter, Mr. Pikor’s investigative findings were integral to his law firm client’s successful bid to vacate a $10 million FINRA arbitration award.

Mr. Pikor regularly collaborates with outside and in-house counsel to investigate allegations of employee malfeasance and develop counter-measures to threats of workplace violence and corporate sabotage. He also has substantial experience orchestrating surveillance and undercover operations.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Pikor was Regional Managing Director and head of the Los Angeles Office of SafirRosetti, a leading international security and investigations firm. Prior to joining SafirRosetti, he worked as an analyst at prominent international intelligence and investigative consultancies in Los Angeles and New York City. He also gained valuable research experience as an Information Specialist with The Associated Press.

Mr. Pikor earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Cornell University. He is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of California.

Ms. Bright joined the Catalyst team in mid-2021 as a Corporate Intelligence Analyst, performing social media and due diligence investigations for prominent private equity and venture capital firms. She utilizes OSINT techniques, conducts in-depth research, and analyzes complex records. Ms. Bright quickly gained additional responsibilities, assisting and collaborating with clients, overseeing surveillance efforts from start to finish, conducting locates, and aiding in operational tasks to ensure an exemplary work product. As she has grown with the company, her casework has expanded to include investigations surrounding claims of sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, and other liability cases.

Prior to working for Catalyst, Ms. Bright worked coordinating executive protection for on-going, short term and urgent assignments. She collaborated with in-house EP specialists as well as subcontractors, both armed and unarmed, to ensure security teams were in place and clients were safe. Before working in EP, Ms. Bright developed a career in private investigations. Her first role was in desktop investigations, which included research, analysis, and record collection. After honing her desktop skills, she was up for a new challenge and took the opportunity to learn the art of interviewing, specifically AOE/COE. She worked on numerous workers’ compensation and liability cases interviewing claimants, witnesses, colleagues, and supervisors. The experience and knowledge led her to train, mentor and grow a field intelligence division. She then had the opportunity to oversee a private investigations affiliate office. The time there molded her understanding of operations, management, and customer relations, and exposed her to other avenues of investigations such as surveillance and process serving.

Ms. Bright graduated from California State University Sacramento with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice. This is where her interest in white collar crime investigations started. She interned with the California FPPC, under state investigators, investigating state and local politics. Her internship experiences propelled her next steps into a career in investigations. She went on to obtain a California PI license and co-found a ladies leadership network.