SPEAKERS

Keynote: Theresa Payton | Carmine Gallo | Marianne Jennings | Joe Hallinan

Keynote Speakers

Theresa Payton

The specter of a massive cyberattack is the most urgent concern confronting the nation's information technology infrastructure today, an issue Theresa Payton understands better than anyone. Through the lens of years of experience in high-level private and public IT leadership roles, Payton delivers sought-after solutions that strengthen cyber-security measures and neutralize e-crime offenders.

Payton is one of America's most respected authorities on Internet security, net crime, fraud mitigation, and technology implementation. As White House Chief Information Officer from 2006 to 2008 -- the first woman ever to hold that position -- she administered the information technology enterprise for the President and 3,000 staff members. Prior to working in federal government, Payton held executive roles in banking technology at Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

As founder of Fortalice, LLC, a security, risk, and fraud consulting company, she now lends her expertise to organizations large and small, helping them improve their information technology systems against emerging, amorphous cyber threats. In 2010, she was named by Security Magazine as one of the top 25 "Most Influential People in Security." She serves as a cyber expert for the syndicated program America Now and is co-author of Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?

Payton candidly equips audiences with far-reaching lessons on how to protect the growing millions who use the Internet daily as well as the organizations who are on the front lines of fending off rapidly evolving, infrastructure-crippling cyberattacks.

Carmine Gallo

Carmine Gallo is the communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. He works directly with leaders whose products touch your life everyday. His clients include Intel, Coca-Cola, Chevron, SanDisk, Medtronic, Hyundai, LinkedIn, Pfizer, and many other global brands. Gallo was profiled on ABC’s 20/20 news magazine and his communication techniques have been implemented by top executives at Apple, Google, Facebook, Ford, and hundreds of other large and small businesses.

Gallo is a former CBS and CNN business correspondent, and a popular and inspirational keynote speaker whose customized multimedia presentations are a hit with audiences around the world. Success Magazine, Bloomberg Television, CNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others have featured Gallo’s content. Gallo is a regular columnist for Forbes.com where he writes about success, leadership, and communications. Gallo has also written six internationally bestselling and award-winning books. Among them: The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty (the first book to take readers behind the scenes of The Apple Retail Store), The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (considered one of the most influential communication books in the world), The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs (winner of an Axiom award for one of the top three best business books of 2011, and Fire Them Up (revealing the seven simple secrets of the worlds’ most inspiring leaders). His latest is Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds.

Marianne M. Jennings

Professor Marianne M. Jennings is an emeritus professor of legal and ethical studies in business from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, having retired in 2011 after 35 years of teaching. She is also the author of several books, including “The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse” and conducts ethics training and ethical culture assessments for Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, professional associations and nonprofit organizations. In 2011, she was named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders by Trust Across America and in 2012, was named one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine.

Joe Hallinan

Joe Hallinan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose book, Why We Make Mistakes, is a helpful and lively exploration of our imperfections and how to overcome them. In pursuit of the errors that we make, Hallinan's talks delve into psychology, neuroscience, economics, consumer behavior, financial strategy and more. We often don't see what's right in front of us. We forget things in seconds. We quickly recognize patterns—but overlook important details. And most of us are pretty sure we're way above average. Humans, by design, are prone to error. Many of these topics were covered by Joe Hallinan in his days as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Indianapolis Star, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Before that he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. Hallinan's new book, Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception (May 2014), is an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves. His previous book, Going Up the River: Travels in Prison Nation, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.

General Session Speakers

SARA BROWN

Sara Brown is an Assurance Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche LLP and has over twelve years of professional experience with Deloitte. She has planned and performed audit engagements for public registrants, including Sarbanes-Oxley 404 attestation engagements, and privately held organizations. Sara has assisted SEC registrants and private companies ranging from development stage enterprises to Fortune 100 companies in various industries, including consumer products, logistics, medical devices and healthcare. Most recently, her focus has been on coordinating audit, audit-related and tax services with Deloitte’s international offices for her multi-national clients. Sara is a graduate from the College of Saint Benedict and holds a Bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting. She is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

KERI DAWSON

Keri Dawson is Vice President of Industry Solutions and Advisory Services at MetricStream, where she is responsible for leading the integration and continued growth of MetricStream’s cloud-based content and consulting services, with focus on driving MetricStream’s next generation content and service portfolios across the ComplianceOnline business unit. Keri was formerly a Director with KPMG and has over fifteen years of consulting experience in audit, risk, controls, and compliance. She was a leader in KPMG’s GRC Technologies practice, and has been active in the governance, risk and compliance domain for over a decade. Keri’s delivery portfolio includes system implementations, internal audit and regulatory compliance services, external audits and attestation services, IT strategy and risk assessments, and performance improvement projects. She has substantial experience leading and coordinating IT-enabled transformation engagements across numerous industries, with a focus on the global consumer markets and technology sectors. Keri holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

MARTY GURRY

Marty Gurry is the Internal Audit Director at Meijer, Inc. and is responsible for their internal audit department and inventory crews. Over the past 16 years, he has performed and led financial, operational, and IT audits and consulting engagements across a range of industries. He was first exposed to Lean as a consultant and had the opportunity to hone some of these concepts while consulting for Toyota for three years. Since then, Marty has worked to incorporate problem-solving tools from Lean disciplines into his team’s audit methodology. Marty is board member and former president of the Western Michigan chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He is also a CPA and a CIA.

JOHN J. HALL

John Hall is the founder and President of Hall Consulting, Inc. and the author of The Anti-Fraud Toolkit and the award-winning book “Do What You Can! Simple -Simple Steps Extraordinary Results.” John specializes in skills training programs and conference presentations for management groups, government and internal auditors, CPAs, and professional associations. He also coaches business and audit professionals in how increase their effectiveness, clarify and meet their business and personal goals, and move their career forward. He has 35 years of experience as a consultant, speaker, auditor and business owner and has worked in senior leadership positions in large corporations and international public accounting firms. He is a member of the National Speakers Association, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Institute of Internal Auditors.

MICHAEL HOWSE

Michael has over 30 years of experience in internal audit, accounting and finance in the oil & gas, manufacturing, distribution and retail sectors. Currently, Michael is the Vice President, Internal Audit and Asset protection at SpartanNash, a Fortune 500 company operating 172 stores in the U.S. and overseas. In addition to being an integral part of the planning committee for the current FMI Internal Auditing Conference, Michael serves on the Board of Governors of the Western Michigan Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). Michael has also served in a number of officer positions within the IIA. He has been a frequent speaker at IIA functions and at audit director roundtable events, where he has spoken on such topics as operational auditing, fraud investigations and enterprise risk assessments and management.

KATE HUBBEN

Kate Hubben specializes in human capital and employee benefits consulting, and is a Certified Self-Funding Specialist. Kate advocates strongly for her clients and works closely with employee groups and carriers to meet mutually beneficial goals. She is active in the community and serves in leadership positions on the Board of Trustees for In Counsel with Women, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center and The Temple-Tifereth Israel Learning Council. Prior to joining the insurance industry in 2007, Kate was the Senior of Director of International Business Development at the Cleveland Clinic where she led the effort to create partnerships with medical practices in the Middle East and South and Central America. Kate also spent five years as the Executive Director of Leadership Cleveland and introduced service learning into the curriculum. She was recognized two years in a row by the Community Leadership Association as the top leadership program director in the country. Kate obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master of Public Administration from Cleveland State University.

CAITLIN MCGAW

Caitlin McGaw is the President and Chief Recruiting Officer at Candor McGaw. She has been in the executive search field since 1997. Prior to founding Candor McGaw in 2013, Caitlin was an Executive Director at Lander International LLC for 15 years. Caitlin was responsible for managing Lander’s Midwest Region audit recruitment practice, which she built from the ground up. Successful as a recruiter through two recessions and two hiring booms, the key to Caitlin’s success is the ability to quickly adapt methods and mindset to the changing market and needs of the audit profession. Caitlin earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She is certified in the staffing profession with a CES, and was awarded the prestigious Recruiter of the Year award for 2006 by California Staffing Professionals.

BUD MILLER

As Executive Director of the Coupon Information Center, Bud has worked on numerous industry initiatives and has managed CIC operations since it began operation in 1986. The CIC is the coupon industry's only watchdog group and has been involved in every significant coupon fraud case since its inception. Bud has played a central role in the design, implementation and evolution of all CIC activities, programs and data systems. Prior to his current position, Bud was a Staff Assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a Member of the International Economic Crime Council and a past Chairman for the 1,450+ members of The National Capital Chapter of The American Society for Industrial Security International. He is also a recipient of the 2003 IMAN Outstanding Alumni Award. In 2011, Bud was presented with an award for his dedicated, vigilant and passionate leadership in protecting the integrity of the coupon industry by manufacturers, retailers and coupon processors. Bud received the Association of Coupon Professionals (ACP), highest honor, The William Cargill Lifetime Achievement Award in March 2013. Bud has a Masters degree in International Commerce from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s degree in International & Public Affairs from The George Washington University.

Andy Obuchowski

Andy Obuchowski Andrew Obuchowski is a Director with McGladrey’s Security & Privacy Consulting group in Boston. As an industry leader and expert in his field, he provides services and solutions for clients in preparation of and in response to matters involving data breach investigations, cyber security and incident response, digital forensic analysis, and intellectual property theft. Andy possesses more than 19 years of experience, including 12 years of law enforcement investigative knowledge, instruction at numerous police academies, and membership in several computer and financial crime task forces in Massachusetts. He is currently an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., where he developed and teaches graduate and undergraduate programs in information security, computer forensics, and computer crime investigations. Prior to joining McGladrey, Andy was a leader with Navigant’s Legal Technology Solutions group overseeing matters and developing business relationships, project plans and policies/procedures surrounding data privacy and digital forensics. He also managed teams responsible for data breach investigations, complex digital forensic collections, network vulnerability and rapid security assessments. Andy also consulted on global matters relating to information security, digital forensics, and e-Discovery with Kroll's Secure Information Services and Computer Forensic Consulting practice.

JOHN SCHEFFLER

John Scheffler, Senior Client Service Partner, has 34 years of experience with Deloitte & Touche LLP and is based in San Francisco. He was the Managing Partner of Deloitte’s retail & distribution audit practice from 2005-2013. John also serves as Lead Client Service Partner, Advisory Partner or Engagement Quality Control Review Partner of large public consumer business companies. He has broad experience in Securities and Exchange Commission and other accounting and reporting requirements including initial public offerings, debt and equity registrations, and foreign statutory audit filings. John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

SONAL SINHA

As Associate Vice President of Industry Solutions, Sonal Sinha is responsible for driving solutions and strategy for MetricStream in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail and technology. She has over a decade of experience as a risk management, audit, advisory and compliance leader at consulting and technology companies including Google, Visa and KPMG. Sonal is a frequent speaker at various GRC and audit events. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Texas, Arlington and a joint M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Columbia Business School in New York. She is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Information Security Manager.

KEN TUCHMAN

Ken Tuchman has 35 years of experience as an investment banker with transaction experience in excess of $200 billion. During that time, Ken has been active in the food retail sector, and has completed strategic transactions with, among others, 99Cents Only, Wal Mart, Pathmark Stores, Stop & Shop, Ralph’s, Von’s, Bruno’s, Sessel’s, Borman’s, and K-Mart. In addition, Ken served as a Board member of Demoulas Supermarkets. He currently is a Vice Chairman at BMO Capital Markets, and is a senior advisor to the Food, Consumer & Retail team. Prior to BMO, Ken was Vice Chairman at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch focused on investment banking in the consumer and retail sector. Previously, he was Chairman of Global Banking for the Americas at Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd. (Wasserstein Perella Group). Prior to Wasserstein, Ken spent more than 16 years at Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Ken has experience in all phases of advisory work including acquisitions, divestitures, take-over defense and restructurings. He is also a veteran Board member, who has worked with management teams to facilitate growth, funding and competitive positioning via build, buy and sell strategies. Ken holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from The Law School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from State University of New York in Buffalo.