Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti
Partner
Grant Thornton LLP

Dr. Sri Ramamoorti is currently a partner in the National Corporate Governance Group at Grant Thornton LLP. He has a blended academic-practitioner background spanning over 20 years of auditing, consulting, and academic experience. Sri provides technical consultation on Sarbanes Oxley, professional standards, financial reporting and auditing matters, and anti-fraud programs and controls. As part of the firm’s thought leadership initiatives in corporate governance, he publishes in research and professional journals, and represents the firm at professional organizations. He is a core member of the Grant Thornton authoring team for the recently commissioned COSO monitoring project.

Gary Mathes is a member of Dixon Hughes PLLC. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in numerous litigation matters involving tax crimes, financial institution fraud and embezzlement, occupational fraud and abuse, and accountants’ professional malpractice, among others. .Mr. Mathes began his career as a special agent with the criminal investigation division of the Internal Revenue Service in 1973, was a tax manager at Touche Ross & Company from 1981-1984, worked as a tax manager and then partner for McGladrey & Pullen, and held the position of partner for Rogers, Mathes & Associates (now Dixon Hughes PLLC). Additionally, Mr. Mathes has been an invited speaker at numerous events around the country.

Steve Clark’s experience as an elected state Attorney General, Chief of Staff to a Governor, judge, arbitrator, mediator, entrepreneur and Professor of Law provides him a unique background in understanding the legal system, fraud, ethics and business/governmental regulation. Mr. Clark’s experience in matters involving state and federal regulatory affairs includes investigation and prosecution for fraud and white collar crime, licensing and regulating of professionals, privacy regulations, E-commerce and consumer protection.

Mr. Clark has served as President of the National Association of Attorneys General and was selected the Outstanding Attorney General in the nation. He is a frequent speaker throughout the country to professional and academic groups, and has argued eight cases before the United States Supreme Court.  Most recently, Mr. Clark has served as a visiting Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, Florida.

Michael B. Schwartz is a Principal in KPMG’s Forensic practice in Houston, Texas. He provides a broad array of professional services to clients by assisting them in preventing, detecting and investigating fraud, waste and abuse. He performs investigative work and related analysis on behalf of corporate and public sector clients in matters pertaining to financial crimes and other misconduct and is involved in proactive fraud risk management matters and the assessment of corporate compliance programs.

Mr. Schwartz is the KPMG Houston office forensic coordinating partner and from 2004 through 2006, was the forensic lead partner nationally for the communications and media industry segment. In 2005, Mr. Schwartz was the national leader of KPMG’s computer forensic practice. He has over twenty years of trial and other legal experience as a federal prosecutor, in law firms and corporate legal departments and is a frequent speaker in Houston and nationally on fraud and misconduct-related topics.

Toby J.F. Bishop is a partner in the Forensic & Dispute Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Chicago, and is the former president and chief executive officer of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

A global commentator on fraud prevention and detection, Mr. Bishop has been quoted in major international publications including The New York Times, London’s Daily Telegraph and India Today. His material has also appeared in Fraud Magazine, CFO Magazine, The American Banker, Director’s Alert, Bottom Line/Business, Computerworld, Corporate Crime Reporter, White-Collar Crime Fighter, Accounting Today, The Auditor’s Report, Journal of Accountancy, The CPA Journal, INSIGHT and Internal Auditing. He is also a contributing author and member of the Board of Editors of Business Crimes Bulletin.

Keith Slotter has been an FBI Special Agent for the past twenty years, currently serving as the Assistant Director responsible for all operations at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Mr. Slotter has written a myriad of articles on crime, management and investigative topics, and has appeared as a fraud commentator on The Today Show, Later Today, Good Morning America, Inside Science, and the CBS Evening News. In the Spring 2004 issue of CPA Magazine, Mr. Slotter was named as one of the world's 100 most influential CPAs.

As a Consulting Manager with Postlethwaite & Netterville, APAC (P&N), Jeff Aucoin, CPA, CFE, CIA, CVA leads P&N’s Fraud Center and has managed a variety of forensic investigations within the non-profit, retail, medical, oil & gas, financial and technology industries.  Jeff also assists clients with assurance and litigation advisory services, forecasting and budgeting financial statements and internal control/process reviews.

Prior to joining Postlethwaite & Netterville in 2005, Jeff worked at Ernst & Young, LLP within its Global Investigation & Dispute Advisory Services group and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP within its Internal Audit Services group.  He graduated from Louisiana State University within both an undergraduate and graduate degree in Accounting.  During his graduate studies, Jeff participated in Dr. Glenn Sumners’ Internal Audit program.

Amy Donahue joined LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business as the interim director of the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute for the 2007 spring and summer semesters.

Donahue is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches Master of Public Administration and Master of Survey Research courses. Her research focuses on the productivity of emergency service organizations and the nature of citizen demand for public safety services. Donahue has served as a technical advisor to the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security since 2003. Prior to that, she was a senior advisor to the administrator for homeland security at NASA. Additionally, Donahue has participated in several disaster management initiatives, including serving on the National Mining Association’s Mine Safety Training and Technology Commission, managing a 911 communication center, and working as a firefighter and emergency medical technician.

Donahue holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, as well as master and doctorate degrees in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also a distinguished military graduate of Princeton’s Reserve Officer Training Corps