Henk van Ess is an independent online search specialist for law enforcers, media, fraud experts, cybersecurity experts, NGOs, and anyone else interested in the power and risks of online open-source information.

He trains NBC News, Global Witness, Buzzfeed, Google, Axel Springer, ITV, and Pulitzer-prize winners from The Wall Street Journal in web investigations and social media research. He also assists lawyers in complicated cases, with finding new and surprising facts online.

Van Ess is a regular guest of conferences for reporters ( IRE, GIJC, SKUP, and CIJ. ) recruiters (SOSU), librarians, banks, educational organizations, or other groups that share his passion to find online information via lateral and literal thinking.