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Charles Petosa, MBA, CPA
Senior Consultant
Relevante Inc.
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Chuck is a Certified Public Accountant with 24 years of hands-on experience in business management, including over 19 years reporting to senior management levels. He has a thorough knowledge of financial analysis, management, reporting, business process, internal control, corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Chuck has broad experience in industries including real estate, wholesaling, retail, manufacturing, advertising and higher education. He continues to provide organizations with teaching, supervision, training and staff development and has taught a variety of accounting courses at several local colleges and universities.
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Christopher J. Janis, CPA, MBA
Partner
Weiser LLP |
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Internal Audit & Risk Management Practice Leader Christopher Janis, has more than 20 years of diversified experience in the professional services segment, and in private industry. Prior to joining Weiser, Mr. Janis served as the Commercial Practice Leader for a national consulting firm focused on providing risk management and SOX compliance services to the middle market. Mr. Janis is the primary architect of Weiser’s SOX compliance methodology, and he has led multiple engagements related to the overall improvement of his clients’ internal controls.
Previously, Mr. Janis served as a CFO in both the technology and telecom segments where his activities included M&A, restructuring, and bankruptcy efforts. He has expertise at both the Fortune 500 level as well as at start-up enterprises. After leading the management buyout of his telecom company, Mr. Janis successfully restructured the business and sold it to a Hong Kong based public entity and secured additional growth capital. As CFO in the information technology segment, he helped secure a valuation of 10 times trailing revenue related to the sale of the enterprise. Mr. Janis has also spent a number of years in audit and other specialty consulting practices at Big Four public accounting firms.
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Michael A. Pinna, CPA
Senior Manager IT
Weiser LLP |
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Michael Pinna has over 18 years experience auditing IT, financial, and operational controls across a wide variety of industries including manufacturing and distribution, financial services, not-for-profit, technology, and professional services. Mike is responsible for all IT aspects of many of the Firm’s SOX engagements and also specializes in performing SAS 70 and Sarbanes-Oxley IT reviews. Before joining Weiser Mike held positions with First Data Corporation as a Director of Technology Audit, with Ernst & Young as a Senior Manager, and with Deloitte & Touche as a Manager.
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Peter McGeough
Senior Account Executive
ACL Services Ltd |
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Peter McGeough is a Senior Account Executive at ACL Services Ltd. who works extensively with chief audit executives and financial managers throughout North America and Asia. He has more than 10 years’ senior management experience in helping organizations save money by mitigating fraud, error and abuse and creating more efficient audits.
Peter was responsible for introducing ACL into the Japanese market and has a unique perspective on the ways organizations can implement business assurance solutions to improve operational performance and address the growing challenges of compliance. He is a dynamic and popular public speaker, having conducted speaking engagements at conferences for The IIA and ISACA.
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Ann M. Aerts, CPA
Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Ann is a Director in the Internal Audit Services practice in the Philadelphia office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. She has over 20 years experience serving clients in diverse industries, specializing in internal audit management and delivery (including co-sourcing and outsourcing), internal audit advisory and quality assessment reviews, business process re-engineering, project management office services, account reconciliation projects, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 compliance projects, internal controls and financial and operational effectiveness assessments and system implementation
projects. Prior to joining PwC, Ann held positions as Audit Supervisor for Banc One Corporation, Audit Officer for CoreStates Financial Corporation and Audit Directorfor Unisys Corporation.
Ann holds a Bachelors degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters degree in Management from Creighton University. Ann is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Financial Services Auditor and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors. In addition, Ann is a volunteer Big Sister for Big Brother Big Sister of Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of the Girard Coalition Incorporated.
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Doug Neary
Managing Principal, Enterprise Content, Collaboration and Compliance solutions
Liquidhub, Inc. |
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Douglas Neary partners with clients in a variety of industries to synthesize business objectives, operating constraints and marketplace imperatives into compelling performance improvement strategies. In his 20 year consulting and business leadership career, he has advised and assisted a number of mid-market and Global 1000 firms in pharmaceuticals, discrete manufacturing, chemicals, oil and gas, energy, transportation and consumer packaged goods. Previously, Neary served as the CIO of a $2B international consumer packaged goods manufacturer and led global consulting and systems integration business units within IBM, Cap Gemini and Day & Zimmermann.
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W. Allen Sullivan, CPA, MBA, MST
Senior Consultant
Relevante Inc. |
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Allen Sullivan is a senior consultant with Relevante, Inc. His practice areas include financial reporting, process improvement, internal auditing,business planning, financial analysis and cost accounting. Allen has held a variety of division financial executive and corporate staff positions with public multinational manufacturers. The staff positions include global consolidations and SEC and shareholder reporting. He also was CFO of the US operations of a public UK corporation. He began his career in accounting and finance as a member of Ernst & Young’s audit staff. He has presented continuing professional education seminars for the AICPA, PICPA and CPE, Inc. and hasserved as a technical manager on the AICPA’s Exams Team.
Allen holds a BS degree in accounting from Lehigh University, a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in Taxation degree from Temple University. He is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
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