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BIO

Christopher Northrop; Vice President, Internal Audit; Bridgstone Americas, Inc.

Chris leads the Internal Audit function for Bridgestone Americas, headquartered in Nashville, TN. The Company is comprised of 55,000 personnel and generated ~$15B revenue in 2022. The Internal Audit function operates with distinctly specialized focus areas, including financial, operational, compliance, information technology, and data analytics and is comprised of 45 team members across North America, Costa Rica and Brazil. Chris joined Bridgestone in 2019 to lead the transformation of Internal Audit. The transformation successfully integrated the audit teams across the Americas region, implemented audit methodologies to adhere to the Institute of Internal Auditors professional standards, and upgraded talent to increase audit value in the Company, improve management relationships and address strategic risks of the business.

Prior to joining Bridgestone, Chris had a 12-year career with Caterpillar, Inc., where he served in a variety of Finance, Accounting and Internal Audit roles of increasing responsibility, including Latin America Regional Controller, Audit Director and various Divisional Finance roles. Prior to Caterpillar, Chris had an 8-year career in public accounting that was focused on business process consulting and internal audit services.

Chris earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Southern Mississippi and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

Todd Havens; Vice President, Internal Audit; Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Todd is an Internal Audit leader with over 30 years of experience leading teams in support of multiple Fortune 1000 organizations, Audit Committees, and Boards. He has led highly qualified domestic and international teams, both within the healthcare industry and in his past professional services roles, in providing collaborative internal control and enterprise risk management methodologies focused on strategic and tactical business issues and investigations. Todd is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Healthcare Internal Audit Professional (CHIAP), and holds a Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA).  He just recently concluded his Board and Chair obligations with the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors (AHIA).

Beth-Ann Martorello; Senior Vice President/Chief Audit Officer; AllianceBernstein

Beth-Ann is a Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Officer at AllianceBernstein (AB). There she directs the global internal audit activities (IA) of AB and its subsidiaries. With a global audit team (US, Europe & Asia), she is responsible for identifying and evaluating the financial, operational, technological, and regulatory risks associated with the firm’s buy-side and sell-side business activities.  Beth-Ann also directs the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing process in support of the firm’s SOX 404 certification requirement.  During her tenure at AB, she has performed infrastructure, application, operational and financial audits, has conducted several fraud investigations, developed the Quality Assurance Program, drafted the Internal Audit procedure manual, performed internal quality assessment reviews of AB’s IA and other IA departments, and developed/implemented training/on-boarding programs, and IA applications.  Beth-Ann is an Executive Sponsor of Synergy Nashville, the Women’s Employee Resource Group at AB, serves as the President of the Board for Nashville Cares and on the Board of Governors for the IIA Nashville Chapter.

Cheryl Kondra; Vice President, Internal Audit; Tractor Supply Company

Since June 2020, Ms. Kondra has served as Vice President of Internal Audit at Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States. Prior to Tractor Supply Company, she had an extensive career in gaming, having served as the VP of Internal Audit for Genting Americas from 2019-2020. Prior to that she was VP of Internal Audit and Chief Compliance Officer at Pinnacle Entertainment from October 2014 to September 2018. Ms. Kondra was the Chief Audit Executive at Caesars Entertainment from October 2007 to August 2014 and held various other positions with Harrah’s and Caesars Entertainment since 1997 within the Internal Audit and Compliance functions. Ms. Kondra has a Master of Accountancy degree and an undergraduate degree in Accounting. Ms. Kondra is a Certified Internal Auditor. Cheryl joined the Board of Directors for Galaxy Gaming and resides as the Audit Committee Chair.

Ginger Rogers; Director, Internal Audit; TennCare

I graduated from Lipscomb University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science Degree with an accounting major and a management minor. I have 37 years of experience in Internal Audit. I’ve worked in a number of industries, including a natural gas utility, insurance, distribution, barge operations, car parts remanufacturing and sales, restaurants and now State government. I’m currently the Director of Internal Audit for the Department of Finance and Administration in the Division of TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid agency.

I have been very active in the Nashville Chapter of the IIA since joining in 1988 with prior roles as Academic Relations chair, Directory chair, 1st and 2nd VP and Chapter President (in the 1995-96 year). I was on the Board of governors for most of the years between 1991 and 2021 and also served as chapter Treasurer for 4 years (2008-2012), Membership Chair and now again as the Chapter President. I’m the only person in the Nashville Chapter to serve as the President more than once.

During my tenure at United Cities Gas company, which was purchased by Atmos Energy in 1998, I was a member of the AGA/EEI (American Gas Association/Edison Electric Institute) committee for Internal Auditing and was a Co-Chair of that committee in the 1993-94 year. During my tenure here, I expanded the scope of the IAD to include operational and IT auditing and participated in several mergers in roles performing due diligence as well as process integration.

During my tenure at O’Charley’s Inc., I was a member of the NRA’s (National Restaurant Association’s) Internal Audit Study Group and Chaired that group in 2012-13 year. Also, during this time, I developed an enterprise risk management program for the company and developed several fraud detection tools through data analytics.

Since joining TennCare, I have expanded the role of the IAD to include operational audits (process reviews). I have also led 2 Quality Assurance reviews on two other State agencies.

$35.00 - IIA Member Attendee

$50.00 - Non-IIA Member

All attendees must register before deadline.

Registration Deadline 01/19/2024 at 5:00 p.m.

Speakers and times are subject to change without notice.