Oregon, Washington & California Private Investigation Agency Private Investigation Service - Oregon Washington California Licensed Private Investigator Expertise since 1978 "I would choose to have Snelling Private Investigators on my side if the need ever arose and often recommend them." ~Jim Landon, Private Investigator Behind Our Private Investigation Agency Our agency was founded as Snelling & Associates in 1987, and revitalized as Snelling Private Investigators & Information Specialists in 2005, with the purpose of creating a select private investigation team to serve the private investigation service and background investigation service needs of a West Coast population. Our private investigation agency has 50+ years of key executive expertise in comprehensive private investigation, fraud investigation, corporate investigation and competition research, and personnel and business management. Our Private Investigation Service Staff Our private investigation agency staff has advanced training and hands-on supervision by established experts in private investigation. We are a quintessential private investigation service, with top private investigator skills refined by thousands of cases. Our private investigation service uses our proven methods to implement strategy, incorporate a network of current resources and get the best results possible. Our team also possesses intangible qualities, such as passion for our profession, objectivity and discretion, communication abilities for all walks of life, sensitivity for all circumstances and inquiring natures that don't take no for an answer. We keep a low profile and protect your confidentiality with a vengeance.

Our Private Investigation Agency Director Donna Snelling's private investigation service management experience spans four decades. She first became a licensed California investigator in 1978, which qualifies her as among the longest licensed female private investigators in California and the USA, and apparently as the longest licensed private investigator in Oregon and Washington, where private investigators weren't licensed until 1998 and 1992 respectively. She first practiced private investigations in California in 1977 and the Pacific Northwest in 1993. Beginning in Oregon in 1976, at age 22, Donna took a job in market research at Freightliner headquarters in Portland. It wasn't long before she realized she wasn't ready for an 8am to 5pm job. Soon after, she relocated to southern California where she became a private investigator. Donna first interned and managed at a prominent Los Angeles and San Francisco, California fraud-specialized private investigation service, and then went forward as partner in another successful San Francisco Bay Area fraud-specialized private investigation service, serving hundreds of insurance, corporate and attorney clients at both private investigation agencies. Among laureates was California's first "claimant take nothing" decision under liberal workers' compensation laws, greatly influencing the first criminal insurance fraud laws to be passed. Her solo private investigation agency operated along California's Central Coast. While selected there for Who's Who in California, it was her client list that reads like Who's Who, including esteemed representatives from public entities, large corporations and small businesses. Returning to Northwest roots in 1993, she was contractor and lead investigator of a Portland, Oregon premier private investigation agency, serving business and industry and the community. She has been a certified career college instructor in private investigations and developed and taught background investigation education. Donna has also honed due diligence and competitive intelligence skills, leading to additional expertise for Snelling Private Investigators in the area of Competitive and Corporate Intelligence, with a longtime international high-tech market research and competitive intelligence director on our key executive team. Donna's curriculum vitae includes training and management at Universal Surveillance Services (southern California and northern California), partner in San Francisco's Laesser & Laesser Industrial Investigations, surveillance manager/partner and senior AOE/COE investigator at California's vonWittenburg & Associates, principal of California private investigation service, Snelling & Associates, lead investigator at Portland, Oregon private investigation service, Landon & Associates, and developer/instructor of background investigation education at the College of Legal Arts in Portland, Oregon. Donna Wakefield Snelling is an alumna of Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon and Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.