Heidi Brown   began her journalism career in Vladivostok, Russia in the mid-1990s. After returning to the U.S. she was hired at Forbes, where she continued to cover Russia, in addition to a variety of other topics such as investing, billionaires, art, philanthropy and issues facing professional women. Her work took her frequently to Moscow. In September of 2010, she began working at Kroll, the private investigations firm.