Ann M. Butera, CRP is President of The Whole Person Project, Inc., an organizational development consulting firm. She is a frequent speaker at internal audit conferences and has worked with audit departments of all sizes to provide auditors with the tools and techniques needed to improve risk management practices within their organizations. Ann is regularly cited in Who’s Who and has been honored by Women On The Job with the Business Achievement Award. She is a member of the IIA, the American Society for Training and Development, the Association of Government Accountants, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She served as Supervisory Committee Chair for a financial services firm.

Ann Butera received her Masters of Business Administration in Organizational Development from Adelphi University. She holds a CRP (Certified Risk Professional) designation from BAI, and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Long Island University/C.W. Post College.

Ann has published her first book, “Mastering the Five Tiers of Audit Competency: The Essence of Effective Auditing”. In it, she shares best practices for every stage of the audit and explains how and why the most effective auditors master five essential competencies. New and seasoned auditors will benefit from her insight culled from over 30 years’ experience training thousands of their peers.

Dave Cotton is chairman of Cotton & Company LLP, Certified Public Accountants, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1981 and has a practice concentration in assisting Federal and State government agencies, inspectors general, and government grantees and contractors with a variety of government program-related assurance and advisory services. Cotton & Company has performed grant and contract, indirect cost rate, financial statement, financial related, and performance audits for more than two dozen Federal inspectors general as well as numerous other Federal and State agencies and programs.

Dave served on the Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards (the Council advises the United States Comptroller General on promulgation of Government Auditing Standards—GAO’s yellow book) from 2006 to 2009. He served on the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Anti-Fraud Programs and Controls Task Force and co-authored Managing the Business Risk of Fraud: A Practical Guide. He served on the American Institute of CPAs Anti-Fraud Task Force and co-authored Management Override: The Achilles Heel of Fraud Prevention. Dave is the past-chair of the AICPA Federal Accounting and Auditing Subcommittee and has served on the AICPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee and the Government Technical Standards Subcommittee of the AICPA Professional Ethics Executive Committee. Dave chaired the Fraud Risk Management Task Force, sponsored by COSO and ACFE and is a principal author of the COSO-ACFE Fraud Risk Management Guide.

Dave has testified as an expert in governmental accounting, auditing, and fraud issues before the United States Court of Federal Claims and other administrative and judicial bodies. Dave has spoken frequently on cost accounting, professional ethics, and auditors’ fraud detection responsibilities under SAS 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit. He has been an instructor for the George Washington University masters of accountancy program (Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting), and has instructed for the George Mason University Small Business Development Center (Fundamentals of Accounting for Government Contracts).

John J. Hall, CPA is the founder and President of Hall Consulting, Inc. and the author of the award-winning book “Do What You Can! Simple Steps–Extraordinary Results”. He is also the developer and author of The Anti-Fraud Toolkit – a self-paced system for leading a Anti-Fraud Campaign in any size organization.

Mr. Hall has 40 years of experience as a professional speaker, consultant, corporate executive, and business owner. In addition to operating his own businesses since 1990, he has worked in senior leadership positions in large corporations and international public accounting firms. John is a Certified Board Advisor, and a member of the National Speakers Association, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Institute of Internal Auditors. For more information on results coaching, business consulting, training or other services, email John at John@JohnHallSpeaker.com. For information on all of our services, just click www.JohnHallSpeaker.com.

Rebecca Harness is AVP & Chief Information Security Officer for Saint Louis University & SLUCare. Rebecca has an established 20+ year career in information technology with the past ten years specifically focused on information security and compliance. An accomplished entrepreneur, Rebecca has founded and led two successful technology startups over the course of her career, and currently serves as a board member for ISACA St. Louis. Rebecca is an alumnus of Hastings College, holds a number of technology and security certifications, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information Security Engineering (MSISE) from SANS Technology Institute.

Mike Jacka is an award-winning columnist and author known for his work with Internal Auditor magazine including the blog “From the Mind of Mike Jacka” and the magazine’s lighter side pieces such as “Alice in Auditland,” “Auditing Songs for the Holidays,” and 'Auditors Anonymous.'  Retiring from a 30-year career in internal audit with Farmers Insurance, he is now the Chief Creative Pilot for Flying Pig Audit, Consulting, and Training Solutions (FPACTS). 

He is a top-rated instructor and the co-author of Business Process Mapping:  Improving Customer Satisfaction (now in its second edition), Auditing Social Media: A Governance and Risk Guide, and the recently published The Marketing Strategy:  A Risk and Governance Guide to Building a Brand.

Drummond Kahn trains auditors and financial managers in the U.S. and overseas. Since 1990, Mr. Kahn served in federal, state, and local government auditing positions, including Chief of Internal Audit Services for the Oregon Department of Transportation, Director of Audit Services for the City of Portland, State Audit Administrator for the Oregon Audits Division, and in the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Mr. Kahn is a past national President of the Association of Local Government Auditors.   He teaches graduate courses at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government and in the University of Oregon’s Master of Accounting program.

In 2014, Mr. Kahn was named one of the 15 Most Influential Professionals in Government Auditing by the Institute of Internal Auditors’ American Center for Government Auditing, in recognition of “professionals who have positively impacted the practice of auditing in the public sector.”  In 2013, the Association of Government Accountants presented Mr. Kahn the Frank Greathouse Distinguished Leadership Award for 'sustained, outstanding leadership in financial management, resulting in notable contributions to the profession.'  In 2018, he was recognized with the Association of Local Government Auditors' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr. Kahn holds a master's degree from the University of Oregon and a bachelor's degree from Whitman College.  He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Government Financial Manager, and Certified Government Auditing Professional.  He has served on the Comptroller General’s Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards since 2009 and as Chair since 2016.

He is pleased to return to the Albany hapters!

Susan Landauer is a partner in the firm Forensic Accounting Services Group, LLC, which specializes in fraud investigations, prevention and training. She had conducted over 100 forensic investigations, specializing in the tracing of hidden assets, net worth evaluations, embezzlement, and marriage and partnership dissolutions. Her company is affiliated with the CPA firm Wojeski and Company CPAs, LLP.

Susan Landauer is a certified public accountant, with over 30 years of experience in the accounting and the financial services industry. Susan has conducted numerous fraud investigations for clients in various industries, including banking, manufacturing, construction and others. She has qualified and testified as an expert witness in both federal and local courts.

Susan began her career with a big four accounting firm, where she specialized in brokerage, banking, manufacturing, credit union and healthcare clients. She then worked for seven years at one of the nations top ten banking institutions, where she functioned as the Vice President and Financial Controller of the Trust subsidiaries and Private Banking department. Susan was then the Senior Vice President of the New York State Credit Union League, where she oversaw the Audit Services, Strategic Consulting, Education and Training, Foundation, Business Partners, Member Services and District Relations divisions.

Susan is a presenter of numerous fraud topics, financial information, internal controls and board of director responsibilities for various organizations, including CUNA, the Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors (ACUIA), NYSCUL, the New Jersey Credit Union League, The Ohio Credit Union League, the Pennsylvania Credit Union League, the Alabama Credit Union League, various chapters of the Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and regional conferences for Board of Directors and Audit Committees. Most recently, she authored the curriculum and conducts a four day course and exam for participants to achieve a Certified Credit Union Internal Auditor certification, which has graduated more than 500 students.

Susan graduated from Siena College with honors, receiving a Bachelors of Arts in Accounting. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Capital District chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She serves as a Supervisory Committee member of SEFCU, a $3b credit union in New York State, is a trustee of the SEFCU Foundation, and serves as financial expert to the Audit Committee of the New York State Teacher’s Retirement System.

Dr. Marcella, President, Business Automation Consultants, LLC, is an internationally recognized public speaker, researcher, workshop and seminar leader with 37 years of experience in IT audit, security and assessing internal controls, Dr. Marcella, has authored numerous articles and 28 books on various IT, audit and security related subjects.

Dr. Marcella’s book, Cyber Forensics: From Data to Digital Evidence, provides the reader with insights into how data are stored, processed, identified, analyzed, and eventually end up as evidential matter. Research conducted by Dr. Marcella on cyber extortion, workplace violence, personal privacy, Electronic Stored Information (ESI), privacy risks in multi-functional devices (MFDs), cyber forensics, disaster and incident management planning, the Internet of Things and ethics, has appeared in the ISACA Journal, Disaster Recovery Journal, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, EDPACS, ISSA Journal, Continuity Insights, and the Internal Auditor Magazine.

Dr. Marcella is the 2016 recipient of the Information Systems Security Association’s Security Professional of the Year award and recipient of the Institute of Internal Auditors Leon R. Radde Educator of the Year 2000, award. Dr. Marcella has also been recognized by the Institute of Internal Auditors as a Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Member.

Randy Marchany is the University Information Security Officer for Virginia Tech. He is also the director of the VA Tech IT Security Lab, a component of the university's Information Technology Security Office. He is the author of VA Tech's Acceptable Use Statement and a co-author of the original FBI/SANS Institute's 'Top 10/20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities' document. He is a co-author of the SANS Institute's 'Responding to Distributed Denial of Service Attacks' document that was prepared at the request of the White House in response to the DDOS attacks of 2000. He was part of the SANS Institute's Secure Code project that developed a set of exams to test programmers' knowledge of secure coding techniques. He has been a member of the SANS Institute's faculty since 1992.

He is a co-author of the EDUCAUSE 'Computer and Network Security in Higher Education' booklet. He is a member of the EDUCAUSE security task force focusing on risk assessment and security metrics and a member of its Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC). He was a coauthor of the original Center for Internet Security's series of Security Benchmark documents for Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows.

He is one of the original members of the US Cyber Challenge (USCC) Project. The USCC mission is to significantly reduce the shortage in the cyber workforce by serving as the premier program to identify, attract, recruit and place the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. He designed the curriculum for the USCC summer camps.

He is member of the Virginia Cyber Range team. He is one of the founders of the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (www.vascan.org), a consortium of security practitioners and researchers from VA Tech, U of Virginia, James Madison Univ., George Mason Univ. He has been a frequent speaker at national and international conferences such as Educause, SANS, IIA, ISACA, ACUA, International CISO symposium, IEEE, NIST, NY State OIT Security conference, FBI-Infraguard chapters, RSA. He's been the subject of articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education on security issues at university campuses.

He was a recipient of the 2016 Shirley C. Payne IT Security Advancement award, the 2000 SANS Institute's Security Technology Leadership Award. the 2003 VA Governor's Technology Silver Award, and a member of the team that won the EDUCAUSE Excellence in Information Technology Solutions Award in 2005. He is a co-holder of two cybersecurity patents. He is acknowledged as one of the North American masters of the hammer dulcimer. He is the author of the original theme song of National Public Radio's nationally syndicated radio program, 'World Cafe'. His band, 'No Strings Attached' was nominated for or won 'Indie' awards (independent record label's version of the Grammy) for Best Album (String Music) category in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990. Blog: http://randymarchany.blogspot.com Twitter: @randymarchany

Billy is Professor of Accountancy at Mississippi College teaching primarily Governmental, Advanced, Accounting Information Systems, and Data Analytics classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  He is a highly sought after national and international speaker on a variety of topics including Fraud, Corruption, Ethics, Internal Control, Leadership, International Accounting Standards, GASB, GAO & OMB updates, and Government Financial Management. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed Billy to the five-member Mississippi Public Procurement Review Board for a term beginning January 1, 2018.

Billy retired from the State of Mississippi in 2011 after 27 years of service with the State Auditor’s Office, Department of Finance and Administration, Department of Mental Health, and Delta State University where he served as Chair of Accountancy, Computer Information Systems and Finance, Interim Dean for the College of Business, and Vice President for Finance and Administration

A long time a member of the Jackson AGA chapter, Billy has served AGA in numerous roles at the chapter level, including Chapter President, and at the national level, including Chairs of the Journal Board and Higher Education Committee, National Treasurer, and National President.

Billy is a member of the Mississippi Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs since 1987. Billy earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accountancy from Delta State University (1984) and Millsaps College (1995), respectively, and earned his doctorate in International Development from the University of Southern Mississippi (2007).  Billy and his wife, Audrey, live in Madison and are members of First Baptist Church, Jackson.

An experienced IT Security professional with over 20 years in the industry working across a wide range of security related practices, including such areas as:  control testing via simulation, control effectiveness metrics, event data analysis, SIEM rule development, data loss protection, disaster recover planning & testing, and IT Auditing. 

He is currently working for a Fortune 6 corporation on the Enterprise Information Security team as an IT Security Architect tasked with evaluating the effectiveness of a wide range of security controls as well as driving improvements to those controls.  Previously, Mr. Rodems worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Group on the Security Engineering and the Business Continuity / IT Recovery teams.

Mr. Rodems holds an MBA with a focus on Management Information Systems from Syracuse University as well as his CISSP from ISC2rd