The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Schneider Downs, and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) are excited to present:
The 12th Annual
FRAUD AND CORRUPTION AWARENESS SEMINAR
Monday May 20th, 2024
SEMINAR TOPICS:
What Started in Vegas Didn’t Stay in Vegas: What Happens When Love, Loyalty, Family and Money Collide Bill Livolsi, Owner, wc2llc.com
They Didn't Teach This in Law School: Adventures in Compliance & Cross-Border Investigations
William Semins,Partner, K&L Gates; and Thomas Ryan, Partner, K&L Gates
Understanding the Mindset of the Fraudster John Warren, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Human Trafficking Myths and Truths Fina Spory, Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations
Greenwashing and Legal Risks in ESG Reporting Matt Hartman, Risk Advisory Services Senior Manager, Schneider Downs
LOCATION:
Rivers Casino
777 Casino Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
CPE AVAILABLE:
8 Hours Field of studies: "Behavioral Ethics” (2 hours) and “Specialized Knowledge” (6 hours) For CFEs, 6 hours qualifies for Fraud topics.
PRICING:
IIA, ACFE Members and Schneider Downs Clients: $285 | Non-member: $325
Early Bird Special: Members & Schneider Downs Clients only: $265 (Register by March 31st)
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Due to commitments made with the venue for this event, we are unable to offer any refunds once registration is complete. However, if unable to attend, you may send an alternate in you place for no additional cost. Simply navigate to the event URL, select modify registration, enter the original email address/reference number, and make your changes. Please contact TJ Valerio at Thomas.Valerio@viatris.com or Rob Wadsworth at Rob.Wadsworth@viatris.com with any questions.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Bill Livolsi
Owner, wc2llc.com
After serving a 24-month sentence for a white collar crime he committed in 2007, Bill Livolsi has dedicated himself to serving others. He is the Deputy Director of Progressive Prison Ministries and its White Collar Support Group. The White Collar Support Group is a community of individuals with white collar justice issues who desire to take responsibility for their actions and the wreckage they caused, to make amends, and to move forward into a new spiritual way of life and to reach out in service to others.
Bill is also a certified Life coach working with men and women impacted by the criminal justice system. He is also a volunteer with Evolution Reentry Services and is the facilitator of its weekly Justice Impacted Families Support Group. Bill has been the subject of and has been prominently mentioned in several national periodicals including the New Yorker and USA Today and has been featured on several major podcasts.
Bill is a graduate of St. Joseph’s University and began his career in accounting and finance in Philadelphia. In the years that followed, he held numerous management positions including CFO/Partner and SVP Finance & Administration at two New York advertising agencies.
William Semins
Partner, K&L Gates
William Semins advises companies with business in foreign countries on matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) and global ethical supply chain risk and has conducted internal corporate investigations as well as investigations into prospective and existing foreign agents and business partners in the United States,Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and South America. In addition to helping clients develop effective anti-corruption compliance programs to detect and prevent potential problems, he has represented clients in matters before the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. William is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and frequently advises financial institutions with respect to their anti-money launder obligations.
Thomas Ryan
Partner, K&L Gates
Thomas Ryan is a trial lawyer who represents clients subject to government enforcement actions, conducts sensitive internal investigations, and litigates bet-the-company cases in both federal and state courts. As a former federal prosecutor, Thomas brings the courtroom perspective when shaping the response to any government enforcement action. His trial-ready strategy has earned him a reputation as a go-to lawyer for companies facing complex white-collar criminal and civil enforcement matters. Thomas is also routinely entrusted with leading clients’ most sensitive internal investigations, often involving C-Suite implications. As an acknowledgement of the breadth and depth of his experience, Thomas has been repeatedly recognized in two categories of Chambers USA and Best Lawyers both for white-collar defense and the energy litigation, as well as The Legal 500.
Thomas complements his criminal practice with a complex commercial litigation practice, focused primarily on the energy and health care industries. In the energy space, he routinely represents upstream and midstream members of the unconventional gas industry active in the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations lying under Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. His energy practice has evolved with the ever- changing technological landscape, leading him to represent a number of traditional oil and gas producers who are embarking into the digital-asset mining industry. As his practice in that emerging industry has continued to grow, Thomas serves on the firm’s internal digital asset task force, which is a cross- practice group, cross-office effort to coordinate and grow the firm’s borderless digital asset practice.
In the health care sector, Thomas is also an active member of the firm’s Health Care Fraud task force, a cross-practice collaboration between the firm’s internationally recognized Health Care and White Collar Defense and Investigation practice groups. As part of that group, Thomas actively defends a broad spectrum of health care providers in various forms of qui tam actions, involving allegations of violations of the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark Law.
John Warren, J.D. CFE
Chief Executive Officer, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
John Warren is the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). He is also an advisory member of the ACFE Board of Regents and sits on the Board of Directors of the ACFE Foundation.
Warren is responsible for setting the strategic vision of the association and for implementing enterprise-level strategic initiatives with the goal of growing global membership, improving member satisfaction and raising the profile of the ACFE.
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, Warren served as Chief Strategy Officer for the organization from 2022-2023. He first joined the ACFE as a member of its legal department in 1996, and in 2004 he was appointed General Counsel, where he was responsible for providing guidance, oversight, and direction to management and staff on all legal issues affecting the ACFE. He served in this position until 2022.
He is also a co-author of the Report to the Nations, the ACFE’s biennial study on the costs and effects of occupational fraud. He also serves in an advisory capacity as a representative to the ACFE Research Institute, a multidisciplinary academic research center dedicated to supporting anti-fraud research.
Fina Spory
Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations
Special Agent Fina Spory is an agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Pittsburgh office. SA Spory is assigned to the Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Group, conducting human trafficking investigations that have been successfully prosecuted on both state and federal levels. SA Spory participates as a leading member of multiple human trafficking task forces, partnering with local, state and federal law enforcement departments as well as non-governmental victim service agencies. SA Spory has conducted numerous domestic and international law enforcement trainings which has brought essential awareness and generated valuable information and leads. SA Spory has most recently served a temporary duty assignment at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT), providing subject matter expertise to agents in the field conducting human trafficking investigations.
Matt Hartman
Risk Advisory Services Senior Manager, Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
Matt joined Schneider Downs in 2023 as a Senior Manager in the ESG & Sustainability practice. He brings an array of experience in ESG disclosures and reporting, development of ESG programs and ESG data sourcing and governance. Matt has previously delivered initiatives in line with the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), amongst others.
Prior to joining Schneider Downs, Matt worked for a Fortune 500 financial services company as an ESG program manager where he worked closely with clients, vendors and legal entity representatives to deliver on a host of ESG initiatives. These ranged from compliance with EMEA and APAC regulatory expectations to enterprise-wide ESG data sourcing and consideration of ESG data in processes and controls. Matt led the build-out of the ESG Regulatory program and subsequent deliveries in line with the TCFD, SFDR and GHG Protocol. Therein, Matt spearheaded clients’ efforts to quantify and improve upon their ESG impacts with a variety of metrics and targets.