Zeev Haskal

MegaGroup is a full-service intelligence and risk management firm headquartered in Los Angeles with strategic resources on the ground throughout North America, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and Asia.  Founded in 1989, we serve a diverse range of clients providing multi-disciplinary solutions to complex challenges. We adhere to the highest investigative standards and maintain a commitment to an exhaustive yet focused and ethical approach to all of our engagements.

MegaGroup professionals are comprised of highly talented and seasoned experts from around the globe with backgrounds in a diverse and wide array of disciplines, including intelligence, special operations, defense, data recovery, corporate security, law enforcement, laboratory research, government & historical archives and litigation.

While we are proud to be recognized for our investigative excellence, we are more than a firm that addresses problems and tackles complicated challenges. We are trusted advisors to our clients, with whom we work collaboratively to meet rigorous objectives and develop tailored solutions. We engage all assignments with the belief that in cultivating relationships of open communication we best help our clients thrive. We are in turn rewarded with a reputation for responsiveness and accessibility, around the clock and around the world.

As MegaGroup’s founder, Zeev Haskal delivers a powerful combination of investigative and security experience with unrelenting diligence and dedication.

Having spent over a decade in his native Israel working at the highest levels of service to his country, Zeev has an exceptionally tactical perspective on complex matters requiring out of the box thinking and creative problem solving.   While serving in Israeli’s Special Forces, Zeev was responsible for directing intelligence gathering teams during some of the nation’s most trying times. Thereafter, while working in Israel’s Secret Service , Zeev planned, designed and implemented successful security strategies for Israeli dignitaries and events of national significance.

Upon relocating to the United States in 1989, Zeev founded MegaGroup and under his leadership the company quickly earned a solid reputation for a dedication to professional excellence, exceptional client commitment and uncompromising ethical standards.  Today, MegaGroup counts among its client’s multinational corporations, respected banks and financial institutions, international law firms, government agencies, sports teams, entertainers and prominent individuals.

Today, Zeev oversees MegaGroup’s Intelligence division and Cyber and Physical Security Teams, lending his critical thinking, creativity and expertise to the planning and execution of physical & cyber threat assessments, counter-surveillance measures and computer forensics. Through his extensive past experience in cross-border due diligence and intelligence gathering, Zeev also fosters MegaGroup’s strategic relationships with foreign intelligence allies and maintains a particular passion for global reaching assignments.

Zeev has spoken to California Bar Association panels and has become a sought-after lecturer with the Association’s MCLE programs on topics including trade secret protection, computer forensics, civil and criminal defense, asset tracing, work place violence and pre-employment matters. Zeev has been a guest lecturer to Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice agents and at Loyola University on topics including asset tracing and the well-respected procedures he developed and implemented for hostile takeovers in matters of insolvency and receivership. Over his career, Zeev has recovered for his clientele more than half a billion dollars in lost assets.  Zeev has further been engaged in script development and technical consulting to entertainment directors and writers.

Zeev is a licensed Investigator in the state of California and is a member of the World Association of Detectives, the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American Society of Legal Investigators, American Society of Industrial Security, California Association of Private Investigators, and the Century City, Beverly Hills, and San Fernando Bar Associations.