| David Kirtland CPA, CIA, CFE David has over 20 years of operations, compliance, and internal audit experience. His experience includes financial and operational audits as well as Sarbanes Oxley implementation and testing. He has worked with numerous companies to build their Internal Audit function, implement Sarbanes Oxley controls testing, and provided education for various stakeholders and practitioners on all aspects of fraud, risk, and controls.
As a professional speaker, David has established himself as a leader in the areas of fraud, risk, and internal controls. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors for the Houston ACFE chapter for nearly 8 years and currently serves as Chapter President. He previously held the Vice President and Training Director positions and has helped the chapter become one of the most recognized leaders in fraud training around the world.
David was a 2018 recipient of the Houston ACFE Chapter Speaker of the Year Award, Houston ACFE President's Award, and named to the National Association of Certified Valuation and Assurance (NACVA) 40 Under 40 twice.
He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). | |
| Nathan Mueller Nathan holds a B.A. in Accounting from Gustavus Adolphus College and was a licensed CPA from 2002-2010. He has over 13 years of public accounting experience and 15 years of corporate accounting experience with a focus on financial reporting, cash processing, tax, and accounting controls.
After the reinsurance company Nathan worked for was purchased by ING for $6 billion, he played a key role in transitioning its operations onto ING’s enterprise resource planning system. Enabled by lax controls and unchecked authority to distribute funds, Nathan began embezzling money to pay off personal debt. What started as a $1,100 check to a credit card, spiraled into an $8.5 million fraud over the next four years. It was only a co-worker’s suspicions that brought the fraud to an end. After being caught, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison. He was released in September of 2014.
While serving his sentence, Nathan delivered over 60 speeches to a broad spectrum of groups & organizations including college classes, businesses, business organizations and non-profits. Since his release from prison in 2014 he has become a sought-after speaker for Fraud and Ethics presentations for diverse and notable organizations across the United States. His most noteworthy presentation to date was the keynote speech at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference 2015 in Baltimore with upwards of 3,000 attendees. Nathan has spoken for several governmental agencies including the FBI, the FDIC, the FFIEC and the Federal Reserve Bank. Nathan has done fraud awareness presentations for Best Buy, General Mills, and Nationwide Insurance to name a few. He also speaks frequently for many organizations including the IIA, ACFE, IMA, HFMA, IASA, ISACA, ACAMS and state CPA societies.
Speaking and training are not the only avenues Nathan has pursued to bring fraud and ethics awareness to all industries. He also co-authored "Lessons From An $8 Million Fraud" in the Journal of Accountancy which won the prestigious Lawler Award as the article of the year for 2015. | |
| Timothy Staggs MSML, CIA, CICA Tim has served in a variety of roles within the Nashville Chapter since joining the IIA in 2007, including serving as president of the Chapter from 2015 to 2017, and has been a member of the Nashville Chapter’s Board of Governors for more than ten years. He currently serves on the IIA’s North American Chapter Relations Committee as the District Representative for the Central Region, District 3. He also serves as a member of the IAEP Academic Advisory Committee at Middle Tennessee State University.
Before his recent retirement from internal audit, Tim served for 15 years as Vice President of Internal Audit & Compliance at Healthcare Realty Trust (“HRT”) in Nashville, TN. Prior to assuming his role as Director of Internal Audit in 2005, he held the position of Controller at HRT; he had been with the company since 1999. Having served in a number of capacities throughout his career, Tim has nearly 40 years of experience in managerial accounting, internal auditing, and compliance. He has worked in a variety of industries from music production to healthcare, and business types from non-profit to both private and public corporations.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master’s of Science in Management and Leadership. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), a Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA), and holds a COSO Enterprise Risk Management Certificate.
In his spare time, Tim enjoys camping, fly fishing, and flying remote control aircraft. He and his wife, Molly, have been married for 36 years, and have 3 adult children and 3 grandchildren. | |
