Josh Oswalt is a Manager at Forward Risk, having rejoined the company in 2025 after previously working
at Forward Risk in 2022 and 2023. Between his tenures at Forward Risk, Josh worked in the federal
government as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Office of the Executive Secretariat, Privacy, and
Information Management at the United States Office of Personnel Management.
Josh works within Forward Risk’s investigations and due diligence practice areas to support clients across
a wide range of research projects, including shareholder activism/corporate proxy contest investigations,
pre-M&A due diligence, executive/board-level candidate vetting, asset traces, and bespoke intelligence
projects.
Josh has a particular interest in leveraging genealogical research databases and techniques for client
work.