Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA, CGFM, CGAP cuts through all of the technicalities and tells it like it is regarding audit standards.  She is the founder of YellowBook-CPE.com and is the author of “The Yellow Book Interpreted 2018.”   She was named an “Outstanding Presenter” by the IIA in 2014.   

Patrick McKinney is TxDOT’s External Audit & Advisory Services Section Director, overseeing internal process and control consulting engagements and audits of external entities receiving funding from TxDOT. Audits include entities such as non-profits, local governments, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and universities.

Prior to beginning his career at TxDOT in 2016, Patrick served as an Audit Manager at the Texas Tech University System, where he led operational, compliance, governance, and process audits, as well as fraud investigations. Patrick holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Finance from Texas Tech University.

Anthony Thomas is TxDOT’s Investigations Section Director and has managed over a thousand occupational fraud and EEO investigations, as well conducting fraud and ethics training throughout the country.

Anthony started his investigation career as a Child Support Enforcement Special Investigator with the Texas Attorney’s General Office, he then moved to Travis County Sherriff’s Office working as a Deputy Sheriff. In 2005, Anthony went to work for the City of Austin Auditor’s Office, ending his time there as the Lead Investigator for their Integrity Unit until he moved to TxDOT in 2012.
He holds a Social Sciences degree from Texas State University and is a US Army veteran.
 

Larry Wallis, CPA, CIA, Chief Audit Officer of VIA Metropolitan Transit, has responsibility for directing operational audits, management advisory services and special investigations. Prior to VIA, Larry served in leadership positions with Southwest Research Institute, Bexar County and Grant Thornton LLP. He is the Interim Chair of the American Public Transit Association’s Committee of Audit Professionals, and is active in the Association of Local Government Auditors’ Education Committee, and as team member and team lead in ALGA’s quality assurance peer review program. In service to IIA, Larry is a member of the Committee of Research and Education Advisors, and previously served as District Representative and District Advisor of the IIA Chapter Relations Committee. He has made training presentations on various topics at IIA and ALGA seminars.