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| Cynthia Cooper CEO The CooperGroup, LLC Ms. Cooper is CEO of The CooperGroup, LLC, a management consulting firm that provides services in the areas of internal audit, ethics and compliance, fraud prevention and detection, board consultation and education and enterprise risk management. Ms. Cooper has more than twenty years of diversified corporate and consulting experience serving clients that have included large and small-cap public corporations and private companies as well as federal and state government entities. As Vice President and Chief Audit Executive for MCI she helped the company move forward and successfully emerge from bankruptcy after the WorldCom fraud—to date the largest corporate fraud in history—which she and her team identified and unraveled in 2002. In July 2004, Ms. Cooper left MCI to launch her own consulting firm. Today Ms. Cooper is a consultant, internationally recognized speaker and the author of Extraordinary Circumstances (February 2008, John Wiley & Sons), a book that discusses her experiences as a corporate executive and lessons learned at WorldCom. Ms. Cooper presents to professionals and students across the globe to share the lessons she has learned and to emphasize the importance of strong ethical leadership. She has donated profits from her book to further ethics education for high school and college students. Ms. Cooper currently serves on advisory boards for Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University. Prior to joining MCI, Ms. Cooper worked in public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia, for Deloitte & Touche and Pricewaterhouse. The CooperGroup is not a CPA firm but a management consulting firm and does not provide attest services, audits, or other engagements in accordance with the AICPA's Statements on Auditing Standards. Ms. Cooper previously served as Chair of the Board of Regents for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. In addition, she has served as a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Ms. Cooper has served on panels with notables such as Anderson Cooper, Donna Brazile, and Grover Norquist; and has appeared on programs including Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard, PBS’s Tavis Smiley, NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CSPAN’s BookTV, and CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch and Squawk Box. Ms. Cooper has presented to large cap public company clients such as Dell, PepsiCo, Raytheon and Walmart; international and public sector entities such as the United Nations, the FBI’s Office of Integrity and Compliance, the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the California State Auditors; and public accounting firms such as Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Cooper was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year for her role in uncovering the WorldCom fraud. She was the first woman inducted to the AICPA Hall of Fame and was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother. Ms. Cooper is also the recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. Along with Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley, Ms. Cooper received the Maria and Sidney E. Rolfe Award from the Women’s Economic Round Table for contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance. | |
| Paul Douglas Director Postlethwaite & Netterville Paul Douglas, CISA, CCSFP, is a Director in P&N's Consulting Services Group, focusing on IT risk advisory, data privacy and security strategies, and IT compliance. Paul helps clients navigate complex security and privacy laws, and turn them in to strategic action plans. He works with a broad base of clients in the healthcare, technology, financial institution, and education industries. Paul helps clients address risk through his experience performing high value assessments and implementing risk management plans. He has experience serving clients related to a broad variety of standards, including:
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| Todd Freeman VP Internal Audit Vulcan Materials Co. Todd has been an Internal Auditor for almost 30 years, spending the last 20 years as a Chief Audit Executive focused on earning the respect of the Audit Committees and Senior Management. Without forgetting Audit’s foundational responsibilities, he has focused on what’s important to our stakeholders while instituting technology to drive better insights more efficiently. | |
| Louise Henry Director Postlethwaite & Netterville Louise Gannuch, CIA, CFE, CRMA is a Director in P&N's Consulting Services Group. She joined the firm in 2008. Her practice areas focus on internal audit, internal controls, risk, compliance, and anti-fraud, waste, and abuse services. She serves clients in a variety of industries including governmental, higher education, non-profit, and disaster recovery management. Louise has extensive experience in supervising internal audits of controls and business processes, performing assessments to mitigate risk, overseeing the execution of internal audit plans, and communicating results to audit committees and senior management. Louise has significant experience in developing and recommending improvements of anti-fraud, waste, and abuse processes within large programs and mid-size organizations. She has conducted and provided oversight of investigations and provides added value to clients through services related to fraud detection, prevention, and monitoring through the use of data analytics. Additionally, Louise frequently presents on various fraud-related topics. | |
| Danielle Keller Associate Director Danielle Keller, CISA, CCSFP, CHQP, is an Associate Director in P&N's Consulting Services Group, focusing on IT risk advisory and IT compliance. She joined the firm in 2011 and has served clients in many industries including financial services, governmental, higher education, healthcare, and oilfield services. Additionally, her experience includes providing client services related to a variety of standards, including the HITRUST Common Security Framework, NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) control framework. Danielle has experience in a range of consulting services, including conducting audits of business and information technology controls, providing recommendations for internal control improvements, data analysis, project management and quality control. She has managed a variety of teams, providing leadership in areas of process design and implementation, communication, training and change management | |
| Wesley Ladd Founder & Lead Instructor Train GRC Wes has experience helping some of the largest and most heavily regulated organizations with their cybersecurity - including Fortune 100 Banking, Energy, and Healthcare clients. Wes has served in a variety of capacities, from Internal Auditor to Penetration Tester to Cloud Security Architect. Through this experience, Wes gained a diverse array of skills and a passion for teaching. Currently, Wes is the founder and lead instructor of Train GRC, a cloud security training company for auditors and other GRC professionals. | |
