40 years of professional experience in multiple industries, large corporations to small startups, US and international.

Before joining Protiviti, Ramsey built and led transformational programs at Wells Fargo in Corporate Risk, Wholesale and Technology, focusing on operational resiliency, business process risk management, out-of-region BCP recovery for clearing & settlement apps, Wells-Wachovia merger integration, strategic data center consolidation and on-demand provisioning of technology infrastructure.

Charlie is a director in Forvis’ Risk Advisory Services practice providing internal audit and risk management services.  He is an experienced internal audit executive with more than twenty-five years of experience creating, reforming, leading and advising organizations’ internal audit functions while also working directly for and supporting corporate boards and audit committees.  Prior to joining FORVIS in 2020, he served thirteen years as the chief audit executive for a large electric and water utility in central Texas.

Previously, Charlie was the Vice President of Corporate Audit, Compliance & Privacy for a large academic medical system where he was hired to create the organization’s internal audit function. His thirty year internal audit career spans the for-profit, not-for-profit and government sectors and banking, finance, insurance, healthcare and electric generation/transmission and water utility industries.  He served twelve years as the audit committee chair for a national not-for-profit board. 

He is active in global IIA volunteer leadership roles, currently serving on the International Internal Audit Standards Board.  He previously completed seven years of service as the IIA’s Professional Certifications Board chair and Exam Development Committee chair.  He is the contracted instructor for the IIA’s Vision University executive education program for new and aspiring chief audit executives.  He is a past president of the New Orleans IIA chapter and including his global volunteer time has been an IIA volunteer for over 15 years.  He previously served as both a volunteer and paid consultant assisting the IIA in conducting external quality assurance reviews. In 2022, he was awarded the IIA’s Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Service in recognition for unusual and outstanding service to the profession of internal auditing over time.

Charlie is a 1993 graduate of University of Southern Mississippi, with a B.S. degree in accounting.

Juliette Gust has over 20 years of experience in building out global Ethics and Compliance programs, whistleblower program implementation and management, internal investigations, and both external and internal audit programs in a broad variety of industries. She is the co-founder of Ethics Suite, a company that provides modern digital confidential “hotline” reporting and case management, as well as Ethics & Compliance program-related consulting services.

 As a former Director of Internal Audit at one of the leading hotel companies in the world, with more than 1,270 properties in 100 countries and over 180,000 employees, Ms. Gust developed and led the Global Fraud & Investigations team for the company. Ms. Gust also served as the Project Manager and a core member of the company’s Anti-Corruption Compliance Program, leading the development of a best-in-class global anti-corruption risk assessment, third-party due diligence, and audit program.

Throughout her career, Ms. Gust has personally conducted or managed more than 2,000 investigations spanning 75 countries and advised on more than 10,000 employee ethics line reports.  Ms. Gust served previously as a subject matter specialist within PwC’s Regulatory and Forensics practices, where she led investigations and engagements in the U.S. and abroad on a variety of matters including anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, corruption and bribery, embezzlement, and financial statement fraud – presenting her findings and recommendations to executive boards, federal and state regulatory agencies and audit committees.

Juliette has been a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2007. She is also an AZ-licensed Private Investigator.

Robert Berry is an award winning auditor, keynote speaker, trainer, author and podcast host. His goal is to help auditors build better relationships by helping them communicate better in the workplace. 

Robert is a top rated keynote and general session speaker at top tier audit conferences. He is also the author of Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, Perform Better Audits, the first book dedicated to the art of asking questions while auditing. 

In addition, he and his co hosts edutain audiences each week on the Friday Fraudster podcast/show. He is also the host of the Audit Bites podcast.

Robert loves auditing and says that the profession saved his life. Now he is passionate about using audit to improving people, processes and profits.