Margie Bastolla, CIA, CRMA is Principal of Margie Bastolla Facilitations, LLC. She helps internal audit departments streamline report-writing processes and produce clear, impactful audit reports. An internal auditing leader and educator for over 25 years, Margie facilitates seminars on topics ranging from audit report writing and leadership skills to risk management and internal control.

A professional speaker, facilitator, and educator, she has consulted and trained thousands of internal auditors and hundreds of organizations in over 40 countries. Her clients include the United Nations, the U.S. military, Fortune 500 companies, and private and public-sector organizations around the world.

Previously an executive for The Institutes of Internal Auditors, Inc. in Altamonte Springs, Florida, Margie served as Vice President of the Research Foundation, Global Director of Advocacy, and Director of Onsite Training Programs. Prior to The IIA, she was an internal auditor with Worthen Banking Corporation and a public accountant with Deloitte in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Margie and her husband, Anthony, live in Orlando, Florida.

Todd is a Principal Consultant with NYSTEC's Information Security practice, where he manages complex security projects and helps clients to understand their security profile and to plan secure systems. Todd has over 15 years of experience in software development. He is an ISC-2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner and is pursuing an MBA in IT Management and a CGS in Information Security from SUNY Albany.

Allen is the former Assistant Legislative Auditor for Local Government Services for the state of Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office. In this position he oversaw local government audits and directed the Investigative Audit group.  During his tenure with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor he participated in hundreds of fraud investigations including one that resulted in the closing of a state agency.   Allen retired from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office in January of 2014.

Allen is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe and, in addition to being a Certified Fraud Examiner, is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.  He began his career in financial audit, had experience with federal programs and helped establish an investigative audit division at the Legislative Auditor’s Office.  He has testified before legislative committees, grand juries and during trial.

Allen also served over eight years as director of internal audit for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.  The system has 49 campuses throughout the state. 

Prior to joining the community college system, Allen was Practice Leader for Forensic and Investigative Services for the firm of Deloitte & Touche.  While with Deloitte & Touche he directed projects in the continental United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Bermuda, Morocco and England.  Allen also worked with one of the major US law firms in three law suites involving the tobacco industry.

Allen is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Louisiana Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is past president of the Louisiana Association of College and University Auditors.

Allen began teaching for ACFE in the 1990s and has taught fraud investigative courses throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean.

Ann M. Butera, CRP is President of The Whole Person Project, Inc., an organizational development consulting firm. She is a frequent speaker at internal audit conferences and has worked with audit departments of all sizes to provide auditors with the tools and techniques needed to improve risk management practices within their organizations.

Ann is a frequent columnist and webinar leader for Protiviti’s KnowledgeLeader. She is regularly cited in Who’s Who and has been honored by Women On The Job with the Business Achievement Award. She is a member of the IIA, the American Society for Training and Development, the Association of Government Accountants, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She served as Audit Committee Chair for a financial services firm.

She is the author of Mastering the Five Tiers of Audit Competency: The Essence of Effective Auditing. In it, she shares best practices for every stage of the audit and explains how and why the most effective auditors master five essential competencies. New and seasoned auditors will benefit from her insight culled from over 30 years’ experience training thousands of their peers.

Ann Butera received her Masters of Business Administration in Organizational Development from Adelphi University. She holds a CRP (Certified Risk Professional) designation from BAI, and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Long Island University/C.W. Post College.

Having retired from the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the State of Tennessee in June of 2012, I spent over thirty-nine years overseeing the audits of all forms of local governments in Tennessee. These audits included cities, towns, utility districts, school activity and cafeteria funds, housing authorities, quasi-governmental entities and certain not-for-profit organizations. 

As director of the Division of Municipal Audit, I was involved with the division’s staff in conducting over five-hundred investigations related to fraud, waste and abuse in which millions of dollars of public funds were discovered lost due to fraud. Many cases were successfully prosecuted resulting in a substantial recovery of funds.

Gina Eubanks, CIA, CISA, CRMA, CCSA, co-authored “Leveraging COSO Across the Three Lines of Defense”, July 2015, published by COSO. She is a passionate leader and facilitator with more than 24 years in performing governance, risk management and internal audit activities for a variety of industries in both private and public-sector. Currently, Gina is a Principal of Eubanks Risk Consulting LLC with concentration on training and consulting in the areas of leadership, governance, risk, internal audit and compliance.

Most recently, Gina was Vice President of Professional Services at the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) where she led quality assessment reviews, chief audit executive services, and industry knowledge centers. Prior to joining the IIA, Gina was an internal audit director at a mortgage processing company and at Deloitte for 15 years. At Deloitte, she was part of the global internal audit leadership team.

In addition, Gina is an Audit Committee member for a large credit union and serves on a board for a behavioral health services organization.

Jay is a multi-certified Information Security Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) and with more than 30 years of professional experience, which includes Security & Compliance, Integration and Transformation Initiatives, IS Management Process and Operational Metrics Definition and Documentation. Customers include Community Health Network of Connecticut, Inc. (CHNCT), Cigna Insurance, Microsoft, Rogers Communications, GM, AT&T, USMC, US Air Force, US ARMY and DISA. Other customers include banks, government agencies, health agencies and providers. Jay is Past President of Greater Hartford Chapter of ISACA.

Vince Hannon is a Principal Consultant at NYSTEC with more than 25 years of experience in IT, including more than 20 years in cyber security. Vince has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, including: program management and strategic planning, network and application security architecture, identity and access management, risk assessment and data classification, metrics and reporting, data loss prevention, policy and standards development, regulatory compliance, security training and awareness, incident response, and others. Vince holds an ISACA Certified Information Security Manager and a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Saint Rose.

Mike Jacka is an award-winning columnist and author known for his work with Internal Auditor magazine including the blog “From the Mind of Mike Jacka” and the magazine’s lighter side pieces such as “Alice in Auditland”,  “Auditing Songs for the Holidays”, and "Auditors Anonymous".  Retiring from a 30-year career in internal audit with Farmers Insurance, he is now the Chief Creative Pilot for Flying Pig Audit, Consulting, and Training Solutions (FPACTS).  

He is a top-rated instructor and the co-author of Business Process Mapping:  Improving Customer Satisfaction (now in its second edition), Auditing Social Media: A Governance and Risk Guide, and the recently published The Marketing Strategy:  A Risk and Governance Guide to Building a Brand.

Mr. Lurie entered on duty with the FBI in February 2003.  Following training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, he served a temporary duty assignment to FBIHQ in the Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC).  In July 2003, Mr. Lurie reported to the Washington Field Office (WFO) where he investigated counterintelligence violations for a number of years, before transferring to a public corruption squad.  While at WFO, Mr. Lurie also held the position of certified firearms instructor, and Rapid Deployment Team Loadplanner.  In June 2011, Mr. Lurie was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent in the Operational Technology Division, Technical Response Unit (TRU).  With TRU, he supervised a team of Electronics Technicians deploying domestically and internationally to provide communications solutions in support of FBI missions.  Additionally, Mr. Lurie managed the network and satellite connectivity teams within TRU.  In April 2013, Mr. Lurie reported to the Albany Division as supervisor of the Cyber Intrusion and CART programs.  He also serves as a firearms instructor and the Albany divisions Crisis Management Coordinator.

Leonard W. Vona is the CEO of Fraud Auditing. He is a forensic accountant with more than 38 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, financial investigations, fraud detection and fraud prevention.

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.

Mr. Vona has successfully conducted more than 100 financial investigations and fraud auditing engagements for some of the largest high profile corporations in the United States.  The net result of his efforts has saved clients millions of dollars through recovery or defense strategies.  His financial investigation experience includes embezzlement, business disputes, asset theft, bribery & corruption, malpractice, and disbursement schemes.  Mr. Vona’s trial experience is extensive, including appearances in federal and state courts.  He is qualified as an expert witness, as a CPA and a CFE, and is cited in West Law for the successful use of circumstantial evidence. 

Mr. Vona lectures nationally and internationally on fraud risk assessments, fraud investigation, fraud prevention and detection, and fraud schemes perpetrated on companies.  He regularly speaks at audit conferences and has developed the Fraud Training Curriculum for the MIS Training Institute, an internationally recognized audit training organization.  Mr. Vona has provided more than 1,000 days of fraud training to organizations around the world.  He has been on the faculty of the National Association of Fraud Examiners and previously on the faculty of Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He has written the training course on Auditors Responsibility for Detecting Fraud – SAS99 used by CPA Societies across the country. His international training experience includes five continents and training through interpreters in the Spanish, Portuguese and Russian language.

Mr. Vona graduated from Siena College with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.  Mr. Vona is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  He was the 1994 President of the N.Y. Capital Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants and the founding President of the Albany Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners.

 www.leonardvona.com

Michele is a Senior Consultant with NYSTEC's Information Security practice. She currently assists the NYS DOH Bureau of Information Security and Privacy with defining data sharing agreements. She is an attorney with more than five years of hands-on experience in document management, quality assurance, and other areas of information technology. She holds a JD from Albany Law School.

Ross Wescott is Principal of Wescott and Associates, established in 2016 to provide IT audit, risk, governance, and control consulting to a variety of industries and government. For over 30 years, he worked in corporate internal audit shops performing a full scope of IT and general internal audit work including IT audit program development and implementation using leading standards including Cobit5; internal audit strategy, policy, standards, procedures, and guidelines development and maintenance; risk identification and assessment; controls identification, design and evaluation; and, data analytics.

Ross Wescott graduated from Portland State University in 1975 with a major in Mathematics/Computer Science and from Marylhurst University in 1986 with a Master in Management. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Computer Professional, and a Credit Union Enterprise Risk Management Expert. He is a current and active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. He has been published in the major Internal Auditing publications and has been a speaker at conventions and conferences on many Internal Audit topics.

Rob Zeglen is the Information Security Practice Lead at NYSTEC, with more than 25 years of experience in information technology. Rob has a broad range of experience in cyber security and related technologies that includes leading the development and execution of key risk-mitigating activities, risk assessments, and vulnerability testing projects. These accomplishments are complemented with private sector experience at Netscape, Sun Microsystems, GE Global Research, and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Rob is an accomplished speaker and holds both a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and MS in Computer Science.