Cynthia Cooper - Chair

Cooper is most well-known for her role in uncovering the corporate fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the fraud. Time Magazine has been naming its Person of the Year since 1927. The designation is given to the person or person(s) who most affected events during the year. Prior to Ms. Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley, the designation has been given to only four women including Wallis Simpson, Madam Chiang Kai Shek, Elizabeth II, and Corazon Aquino.

Cooper was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame, and is the first woman to receive this distinction. She was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in the November 2004 issue of Working Mother. Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Ms. Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women’s Economic Round Table. This award was presented to Ms. Cooper due to her extraordinary contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance.

Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. The American Accounting Association’s Public Interest Section recognized Ms. Cooper for her efforts to promote professionalism and ethics in the accounting profession. Ms. Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award.

Cooper previously served as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI until July 2004. Prior to joining MCI, she worked in public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. Ms. Cooper received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University and her Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama.

Cooper is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. In addition to her professional designations, she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Cooper previously served on the Accounting Advisory Board for the University of Alabama, and currently serves on the Louisiana State University Center for Internal Auditing Advisory Board. Ms. Cooper speaks to both students and professionals across the country to share some of the lessons she has learned and to emphasize the importance of strong ethical and moral leadership. She resides in Mississippi with her husband Lance Cooper and their two daughters.

Members of the Board

Name	Title	Organization
Alexander Stephanouk	Vice President	AFLAC
Roger McDaniel	President	Audit Services
Stephanie Dudenhefer	Senior Manager	Capital One
Jackie McCaulley	SVP & Interim Director	CIT Group, Inc.
Keith Allen	Vice President	Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.
Joyce Vassiliou	Director of Internal Audit	Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co.
Steve Goepfert	Staff Vice President	Continental Airlines, Inc.
Cynthia Cooper	CEO	CooperGroup LLC
Mike Thomas	Executive	Crowe Chizek and Company
Ray Gonzalez	Director	Deloitte & Touche
Samantha Hanna	Associate	Dixon Hughes
Faye Stallings	Vice President for Audit and Ethics	El Paso Corporation
Roy Dudenhefer	Audit Manager	Entergy
Lysa Sanchez	Senior Manager	Ernst & Young LLP
Robert King	Vice President, Internal Audit	Federal Express Corporation
Tim Kenny	Senior VP and General Auditor	Freddie Mac
Jose Luis Rojas	Associate Director	Grant Thronton, S.C.
David Mancuso	Audit Manager	Halliburton
Jim Batterton	Director	IBM Corporation
Laura Soileau	Senior Auditor in Charge	International Paper
Erik Hansen	Advisory Partner	KPMG
Joel Kramer	Managing Director	MIS Training Institute
Steve Casazza	Director	Nestle
Allan Lew	Manager	Northrop Grumman Corporation
Susan Rudolph		Pearson PLC
Abby McCurry	Consulting Associate Director	Postlethwaite & Netterville
Mark Erath	Partner	PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Josh Stibrich	Senior Manager	Protiviti
Camille Gerard	Consultant	Risk Management Services
Sherron Watkins	Leadership Advocate	Sherron Watkins and Company Inc.
Michael Head	Managing Director	TD Ameritrade Holding Corp
Scott Lachney	Senior Manager	The Shaw Group Inc.
Temika Jones		Transocean
Russell Barbee		Transportation Safety Administration
Scott Patterson	Manager	UHY Advisories TX, LLC
Jared Soileau	Instructor	LSU Department of Accounting
Philna Coetzee	IAEP Coordinator	University of Pretoria