| November 2, 2023 | |||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Lunch and Networking | ||
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Creating Culture, Controls, and Compliancy through ERM Speaker: Mel Thomson MAdm, ARM, ERMCP, Risk Management, City of Phoenix | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | The Proposed Global Internal Audit Standards - What Do You Need to Know? Speaker: James Rose CIA, CRMA, CPA, CISA, CISSP, Managing Director, SunHawk Consulting | ||
| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Questions and Closing | ||
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | IPPF - Global Internal Audit Standards Executive Overview and Discussion Speaker: James Rose CIA, CRMA, CPA, CISA, CISSP, Managing Director, SunHawk Consulting | ||
| Mel Thomson MAdm, ARM, ERMCP City of Phoenix Mel Thomson leads Enterprise Risk Management at the City of Phoenix. She is responsible for balancing insurable and uninsurable risks by facilitating risk assessments and providing consultations by engaging departments in the ERM process as the leading approach to help identify, assess, treat, and monitor their risks to reduce uncertainty on objectives. Through ERM planning, Mel works with teams to help manage and optimize their risks to either acceptable or unacceptable levels, while leveraging the upside of risks. As a risk practitioner, Mel works with leaders to help identify their appetites and provide value through risk-based decision making. Mel began in the benefits consulting arena and later transitioned into property and casualty at the State of Arizona’s Department of Administration in the Risk Management Division. She was the Risk Administrator for the City of Maricopa where she designed and implement a new risk division. Currently, Mel serves at the City of Phoenix's Risk Management Division. Mel is the Education Chair for Arizona Public Risk Management Association's Board (AZPRIMA) and chairs the State & Local Outreach Committee for the Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM). Mel received the 2023 Enterprise Risk Management Award at PRIMA's national conference in Long Beach, California. She has a Masters in Administration from Northern Arizona University, Associate in Risk Management (ARM) and is an Enterprise Risk Management Certified Professional (ERMCP). She serves on the Advisory Council for Northern Arizona University's Risk Management Insurance Certificate Program through the W.A. Franke College of Business. She is also certified in Lean Six Sigma. | |
| James Rose CIA, CRMA, CPA, CISA, CISSP SunHawk Consulting James Rose is a Managing Director with SunHawk Consulting where he leads the governance, risk and compliance practices with a focus on the healthcare industry. Mr. Rose currently serves as an Expert Advisor to the World Health Organization’s Staff Insurance Program as well as Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the Jefferson County Public Schools. Previously James served for six years on the Audit Committee of the Rome, Italy based United Nations World Food Programme – the last two as Chair.
James began his career as a Foreign Service Officer with the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Agency for International Development, reviewing foreign economic assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. He also worked as Director of Performance Audits with the Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, leading the effort to create the department that now conducts performance and operational reviews of all state programs.
In the private sector Mr. Rose served for 15 years as Chief Audit Executive of Humana where he established the Enterprise Risk Management program and led the implementation of the organization’s GRC platform. He served as Director at Navigant, a global regulatory consulting firm, leading the disputes and regulatory U.S. healthcare payer practice. During his tenure at Navigant he worked with some of the largest U.S. health plans, health systems, and pharmaceutical firms – supporting compliance programs, conducting investigations, evaluating billing practices, assessing risk adjustment reporting, and helping with governance organizational design. More recently, at Aperture Credentialing, LLC, Mr. Rose served as the Chief Financial Officer as well as oversaw operations of the organization including development of the information technology strategy. Previously Mr. Rose served as founding co-lead of the Data Analysis and Review Committee of the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Justice.
James currently serves on the Institute of Internal Auditor’s International Internal Audit Standards Board which is currently resetting the Standards of the Profession.
James is a proud graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. | |
