Auditing and Ethics: A Professional Practice (2 CPE)
Dr. Brian Steverson (Gonzaga University)
12:30 to 13:15
Lunch (45 Min) & Networking
13:15 to 14:15
Trends in Complex Financial Crime
Jared Young (FBI Seattle)
14:15 to 14:25
Break
14:25 to 15:25
Offensive Cybersecurity Operations
Dwight Hohnstein (IBM X-Force)
15:25 to 15:35
Break
15:35 to 16:35
You’ve Found Fraud, Now What?
Lydia Hoffman (DOR - Fraud & Risk Manager)
16:35 to 16:45
Q&A, Close Out
Charlie Johnson CIA, QIAL, CFSA, CRMA, Director at FORVIS
Charlie is a director in FORVIS’ Risk Advisory Services providing internal audit and risk management services. He is an experienced internal audit executive with more than twenty-four 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 a 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.
Dr. Brian Steverson, PhD, Lecturer, Gonzaga University
Faculty member at Gonzaga since 1992. Received Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1991. Faculty member at Gonzaga since 1992. Member of the Philosophy Department from 1992 through 2008. Assumed the Aram Chair in the school of Business Administration in 2008. Specializes in professional ethics, Integrative Social Contracts Theory, the ethics of entrepreneurship, and the Jesuit tradition of business education.
Jared Young, Supervisory Forensic Accountant, FBI Seattle
Jared Young is the Seattle Division’s Supervisory Forensic Accountant for the FBI. Jared Young entered duty with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011. In this role, Young oversees all FBI Forensic Accountant case work in the State of Washington. Young has extensive experience supporting financial crime investigations including investment and securities frauds and has served as a trial witness for multiple high-profile matters. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and active Certified Fraud Examiner. He began his professional career supporting mental health and adult education nonprofits. Just prior to joining the FBI, Young worked in the Forensic Services and Audit practices of a public firm in his hometown of Chicago. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Accountancy from the University of Illinois.
Dwight Hohnstein, Operator, IBM X-Force
Dwight is a red team operator with a focus on network, host and web application security. Throughout his nine-year career Dwight has actively developed, blogged and maintained unique techniques and toolsets to accomplish challenging assessment objectives. His penchant for automation has led to a deep knowledge across a variety of topics, allowing him to reveal vulnerabilities and assets that would otherwise go unnoticed. He has contributed to projects such as GhostPack, Cobalt Strike and Kali Linux. Currently Dwight works at IBM's X-Force, where he performs red team assessments for some of the largest organizations in the world.
Lydia Hoffman CGAP, CIA, CRMA, Fraud and Risk Manager, WA Department of Revenue
Lydia has over 20 years of experience in the audit and risk field with the State of Washington, including over 10 years as an internal auditor. She is currently the Enterprise Risk Officer at the Department of Revenue, which includes Internal Control Officer duties and overseeing a newly developed position of a Fraud and Risk Manager. Her various roles over the years have ranged from inspecting prisons at the Department of Corrections, working on the pandemic fraud at the Washington Employment Security Department, and helping the Washington State Patrol to navigate police reform through strategic planning. Lydia holds a bachelor’s degree from the Evergreen State College and designations for Certified InternalAuditor (CIA), Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), and Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP). Lydia also serves as the current Nisqually Chapter President.