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Speakers

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Presentation: "Governmental Fraud"

Jeff has managed a variety of forensic investigations. He has also provided a wide range of services including assurance and litigation advisory services, forecasting and budgeting financial statements, internal control reviews and fraud investigations for clients in a variety of industries

Presentation: "Forensic Auditing - Audit or Investigations"

Ronald Durkin is a partner at Clifton Gunderson LLP, a valuation and forensic cervices client service center, in Los Angeles, California. Before working at Clifton Gunderson, Durkin was a partner at Durkin Forensic Inc. and a national partner in charge of Fraud and Misconduct Investigations with KPMG LLP. He has more than 30 years of combined experience in public accounting and as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While with the FBI, Durkin was responsible for investigations involving white-collar crime, political and public corruption, money laundering, organized crime, labor racketeering, statute violations, and narcotics matters.

Durkin has many professional designations, including Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). He has received numerous awards for his accomplishments, including the Forensic Litigation Services Lifetime Achievement Award and is also featured in numerous publications such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) publication Journal of Accountancy.

Presentation: "FBI's White Collar Crime Program"

Greg Fee is currently the Senior Supervisory Resident Agent for the Baton Rouge Resident Agency of the FBI, which covers the Middle District of Louisiana. Greg also currently serves as the White Collar Crime Program Coordinator for all of the FBI's offices located in Louisiana.

Since joining the FBI as a Special Agent Accountant in 1987, Greg has worked in the FBI's Washington D.C., Mississippi, Chicago and Louisiana offices. During his tenure with the FBI, Greg has been responsible for both investigating and supervising cases involving financial crimes, political and public corruption, and health care fraud. In addition, Greg is an instructor both within the FBI and to other law enforcement agencies providing training on white collar crime matters, crisis negotiations, and law enforcement ethics.

Greg is a CPA and is Certified in Financial Forensics. Greg earned a Bachelor of Business Administration - Accountancy and Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Presentation: "Security Tools - Up Close and Personal"

Will Fleenor is a shareholder of K2 Enterprises LLC, has conducted seminars for 48 state CPA societies, and has spoken at numerous accounting technology conferences, including the AICPA Information Technology Conference for the past 22 years. He has also conducted training for organizations such as the FBI. Fleenor is a past chairman of the AICPA Information Technology Conference, as well as past chair of other conferences and professional committees. He is a co-author of the Practitioners Publishing Company's Guide to Installing Microcomputer Accounting Systems and has had numerous articles published in professional journals, including the Journal of Accountancy and the CPA Journal.

Presentation: "The Accounting Monster Gatekeepers' Failures: Institutional Fraud and the Financial Crisis"

Michael Hudson covers business and finance for iwatchnews.org, an online newspaper published by the Center for Public Integrity. He previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. Hudson has written for Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and the National Law Journal. He has been reporting on financial fraud and predatory lending for nearly 20 years. His work has been honored with a George Polk Award for magazine reporting, a John Hancock Award for business journalism, and citations from the American Bar Association and the New York State Society of CPAs.

Hudson edited and co-authored the award-winning book Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty and appeared in the documentary film Maxed Out. His new book, The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis, was published in October 2010 by Times Books. The Monster was named Book of the Year by Baltimore City Paper, and The Boston Globe called it a "magnificently and heartbreakingly told" work of investigative reporting. Library Journal praised it as "essential reading for anyone concerned with the mortgage crisis."

Presentation: Behavioral Aspects for Forensic Accountants"

Joe Koletar has more than 12 years of experience as an executive director, principal, and director in the Fraud and Investigations practices of Ernst & Young LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP. His work has taken place throughout the United States and 16 foreign countries and has involved many premier law firms. For more than 25 years, Koletar served as a special agent and senior executive in the FBI. He was the national program manager for a $2.5 billion criminal investigations' budget, computer operations, the Witness Protection Program and informant operations, and White House Background Investigations. Prior to joining the FBI, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Army Special Security Group.

Koletar has written extensively on fraud and related matters for professional journals, has been quoted in The New York Times, and interviewed on National Public Radio. He has co-authored and authored numerous books, such as Fraud Exposed: What You Don’t Know Could Cost Your Company Millions. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and the former chairman of the board of regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Presentation: "Forensic Accounting Techniques for External/Internal Auditors"

Elliott Leary is a partner at KPMG Forensics in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area with a specialty in accounting. Before joining KPMG, Leary was a supervisory special agent with the FBI from 1979 to 2001. He is a graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and holds a master’s in adult education.

Leary is a CPA and a part of numerous groups, including the American Conference Institute, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and American Institute of CPAs.

Presentation: "Little White Lies - Corporate Crime in America"

Kelly Richmond Pope is an assistant professor at the School of Accountancy and Management Information Systems (MIS) at DePaul University. She worked in the Forensic Services department of KPMG LLP in Chicago, Ill. and served as a consultant for the Institute for International Development at Harvard University. Richmond Pope is a CPA, a member of the American Accounting Association, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the International Association for Accounting Education and Research, the Center of Business Ethics at Bentley College, and the American College of Forensic Examiners.

Richmond Pope received her PhD and master's in accounting from Virginia Tech University. She has written on subjects such as "The Effect of Social Confrontation on Individual's Internal Reporting Intentions of Fraud," "Nonprofit Employees' Machiavellian Propensities," and "Calls for greater accountability within the US nonprofit sector." She also leads CPA Continuing Professional Education Courses and other professional training and workshops. Richmond Pope has received numerous awards, honors, and research grants.

Presentation: "Interviewing Techniques"

Don Rabon is an expert in the field of interviewing and interrogation. He worked as the Deputy Director at the North Carolina Department of Justice for many years before retiring.

He has authored four interviewing related texts: Interviewing and Interrogation 2nd Edition 2010, Investigative Discourse Analysis, 1994, Persuasive Interviewing, 2007, Fraud Related Interviewing, 2010.

Over a period of 33 years, Rabon has provided investigative assistance to 48 states, more than ten countries, Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Personnel, as well as the private sector and corporate security personnel.

Presentation: "Statistical Analysis for Investigative Accountants"

Mark Shirley is a licensed CPA and has worked for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and as an adjunct faculty member at the National Judicial College, University of Nevada–Reno. Shirley has presented more than 100 lectures in 50 U.S. cities, Puerto Rico, and Canada to the AICPA, New York Society of CPAs, LCPA, NACVA, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, National Judicial College, LSU Law Center, FBI Academy, and numerous civic and professional organizations.

Shirley has earned advanced accreditations, including Accreditation in Business Valuation (ABV), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Certified Forensic Financial Analyst (CFFA), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He has provided expert witness testimony before the U.S. Tax Court, Federal District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Louisiana District Courts, Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribal Court, and local specialty courts. The NACVA has recognized Shirley's contributions to professional education by awarding him the Circle of Light, Instructor of the Year, Outstanding Member, and Award of Excellence.

Presentation: "Calculating Lost Profits"

Edward Simmons is a shareholder in The Koerber Company, P.A. and is responsible for valuation and litigation services for attorneys and their clients. The valuation services are primarily for estate and gift tax purposes, purchases, and sales of business, and equitable distributions related to divorces. Simmons also assists attorneys with family law tax issues. He has more than 15 years of experience in accounting and financial services.

Simmons is a member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Southern Economic Association, the National Association of Forensic Economics, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and numerous other organizations. He is licensed as a CPA in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Simmons is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), classified as Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the AICPA, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Presentation: "PCAOB Update"

R. Davis Taylor is an associate director-accountant for the Division of Enforcement and Investigations of the Public Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in Washington, DC. His principal responsibilities are planning, organizing, and conducting investigations dealing with possible violations by registered accounting firms and their personnel of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the rules and standards of the PCAOB, and other applicable law.

Taylor is a CPA in the states of California and Arizona and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) who has more than 25 years of domestic and international audit, fraud investigation, and dispute service experience. Prior to joining the PCAOB in December 2009, Taylor resided in China, where he assisted in the development of Ernst & Young’s investigation and dispute practice and conducted investigations regarding allegations of fraudulent financial reporting and other violations of U.S. securities laws and regulations.