Susan Landauer is a certified public accountant, with over 35 years of experience in the accounting and the financial services industry, most recently focusing for 20 years on forensic investigations. These forensic investigations include the tracing of hidden assets, net worth evaluations, embezzlements, and marriage and partnership dissolutions. Her client base has included various industries such as banking, manufacturing, medical practices, construction companies and others. She has qualified and testified as an expert witness in both federal and local courts.

Susan began her career with a big four accounting firm, where she specialized in brokerage, banking, manufacturing, credit union and healthcare clients. She then worked for seven years at one of the nations top ten banking institutions, where she functioned as the Vice President and Financial Controller of the Trust subsidiaries and Private Banking department. Susan was then the Senior Vice President of the New York State Credit Union League, where she oversaw the Audit Services, Strategic Consulting, Education and Training, Foundation, Business Partners, Member Services and District Relations divisions. She has also functioned in a consultant capacity as the CFO of publicly traded companies, start-up companies, and not-for profits.

Susan is a presenter of numerous fraud topics, financial statement interpretation, risk management, internal controls, compliance and board of director / supervisory committee responsibilities for various organizations, including Americas Credit Unions (formerly CUNA), the Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors (ACUIA), various state leagues, various chapters of the Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and regional conferences for Board of Directors and Audit Committees. Most recently, she co-authored the curriculum and conducts a four-day course and exam for participants to achieve a Certified Credit Union Internal Auditor certification, which has graduated more than 1,200 students. She is also an adjunct professor at the State University of Albany, where she is a professor for the Master of Accountancy- Forensics program.

Susan graduated from Siena College with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Capital District chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She serves as financial expert to the Audit Committee of the New York State Teacher’s Retirement System. She just retired from the chairperson position of $9 billion credit union’s Supervisory Committee, which she served on for 18 years.

District Attorney Jason L. Schmidt was elected to the position in 2020 and took office in January 2021. He vowed to uphold the New York State Constitution and the United States Constitution. DA Schmidt gratefully accepted the duty to represent the People of the State of New York and more specifically, the People of Chautauqua County by seeking justice for all its residents, running on the platform of putting victims first. To DA Schmidt, no crimes are a victimless crime; each crime that is committed has an adverse effect on the quality of life for the residents of Chautauqua County. During his first term as District Attorney, DA Schmidt has secured over 80 convictions resulting in state prison sentences. The District Attorney personally oversees all major cases that come in to the DA’s Office and is involved in all the jury trials occurring in Chautauqua County. The District Attorney oversees a staff of thirteen full time Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs), three part time ADAs, three Paralegals, six Legal Secretaries, one Operations Assistant, one Discovery Expediter, three Senior Investigators and one Executive Assistant. Each employee of the District Attorney’s office plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of Chautauqua County residents.

Fraud is a case type that occurs regularly in Chautauqua County and is typically considered to be a “victimless” crime; however, DA Schmidt views fraud crimes the same way as all other crimes that occur. The District Attorney has a unit within in the office that investigate and prosecute fraud offenses and support the Department of Taxation and Finance’s Crimes Against Revenue Program (CARP). The ADA and investigator assigned to CARP are responsible for investigating all types of fraud offenses that occur in the County. The office has several investigations pending that range from the sale of untaxed cigarettes, the sale of unlicensed marijuana, insurance fraud, filing of false instruments, and theft from municipalities.

Dr. Michael Skiba, also known as Dr. Fraud ®, is an international consultant/expert on financial crime and has been referred to as one of the top crime fighters in the world. He worked in the fraud industry for 29 years (investigator, analyst, and Vice President International Counter Fraud) and for the last seven years has worked for the Dr. Fraud Training Group (a company he founded) in every international region (96 countries and counting), as a consultant, trainer, and speaker on fraud. International governments, private companies, and colleges call upon him to speak and offer training and consultation on his global expertise including recent engagements in South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia, and the Nordics.

He has also been a professor for 18 years and is currently the Department Chair at  Colorado State University Global where he oversees the Criminal Justice Department  including specializations in Fraud, Financial Crime, and Cybercrime. He holds an MBA and a PhD with a research focus on economic crime. He is highly sought after in the media and can be seen weekly in many media outlets including NBC, CBS, FOX, Bloomberg,  SiriusXM radio and his live talk show on KRDO Colorado named “Fraud Fireside Chat”. He is a staff instructor for the United Nations, INTERPOl, FBI and ATF. He is an accomplished author that has published over 300 articles, including a groundbreaking book entitled “The Psychology of Fraud. He is also the host of DFTV, a TV series focused on investigating international scams. www.drfraud.org.        

Leonard W. Vona is the CEO of Fraud Auditing. He is a forensic accountant with more than 40 years of diversified auditing and forensic accounting experience, including a distinguished 18-year private industry career.  His firm advises clients in areas of litigation support, fraud risk, fraud data analytics and fraud auditing.

Mr. Vona is the author of three books published by Wiley, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program and The Fraud Audit: Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems, Fraud Data Analytics Methodology: The Fraud Scenario Approach to Uncovering Fraud. Wiley has referred to Mr. Vona as a worldwide renowned authority on internal fraud risk. Mr. Vona lectures nationally and internationally on fraud risk assessments, fraud investigation, fraud prevention and detection, and fraud schemes perpetrated on companies. Mr. Vona has provided more than 1,000 days of fraud training to organizations around the world.  

Prior to joining the FBI, SA Wabby spent approximately 7 years in public accounting. In 2019, he was assigned to the white collar squad in Albany, NY, investigating corruption, fraud, money laundering and related crimes and currently investigates violent crime. Prior to working in Albany, SA Wabby was assigned to the FBI’s Plattsburgh Resident Agency and investigated a variety of crimes including corruption of federal officers, drug trafficking organizations, money laundering, financial crimes and violent crimes. SA Wabby is a licensed CPA and CFE.

Paul E. Zikmund serves as Berkadia’s Chief Resiliency Officer. He is responsible for managing Berkadia’s business resiliency programs including enterprise risk management, compliance, internal audit, data privacy, physical security, fraud risk management, ESG, and information security. Prior to his role at Berkadia, Paul served as a Director of Baker Tilly’s Global Fraud and Forensic Investigations, Compliance and Security Services practice where he was responsible for helping clients develop, assess and administer ethics and compliance programs, conduct global and cross-border fraud and misconduct investigations, designing and implement risk and security management programs. Prior to that, Paul served as Deputy CCO & Vice President Global Security at Bunge in White Plains, NY where he was responsible for development and implementation of Bunge’s fraud, ethics, compliance and security risk management programs and controls designed to protect company assets, mitigate fraud and misconduct, ensure compliance with federal and state laws, protect company assets, and promote adherence to Bunge’s core values.

Paul managed and conducted investigations of compliance matters, fraud and ethics violations. Paul assisted with the development and implementation of tools and techniques to mitigate enterprise security, fraud & compliance risk, manages the company’s third-party risk management program, and administers security, compliance training and awareness programs. Prior to joining Bunge, Paul worked as the Senior Director Forensic Audit at Tyco International in Princeton, NJ and the Director Litigation Support Services at Amper, Politziner, & Mattia, LLP, in Philadelphia, PA where he was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering fraud risk management services to Tyco and to clients. He possesses nearly 35 years of experience in this field and has effectively managed global compliance and forensic audit teams at various Fortune 500 companies.