Radian Compliance Management Services

April 2007 Roundtable

Part-3: IT Strategy Series:  Ask the Experts

The finale for this IT Strategy Series is to Ask The Experts.  We will bring together experts from all facets of Compliance, including Financial, Information Management, Audit and Corporate.  We will offer an open forum to submit questions before hand as well as on the spot information sharing.  We will use feedback from the first two sessions to build a value based session.

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Tim Endisch - IT Consultant at Capital Data, Inc., Chicago

With over twenty-five years of varying capacitates in the industry, Tim has experience in both the technical and director-level aspects of business continuity and compliancy, speaking to the issues and concerns that arise on both sides.  As a Technician and Project Manager, Tim in involved with architecture and design to offsite testing exercises, coordination of Business Impact Analyses, definition of mission critical applications, design and building of D/R requirements and scope documentations.  As a Director, Tim has had the opportunity to build an effective D/R team, get the respective buy-in and support from the executive level management personnel.  As the MIS Operations Director at P&H Mining Equipment, he has coordinated the appropriate standards definition, development and respective change control documentation in lieu of SOX compliancy initiatives.

Jan Hertzberg, CISA, CISSP - Principal of Business Advisory Services IT for Grant Thornton, Chicago

At Grant Thornton, Jan leads the Chicago Business Advisory Services Information Technologies (BAS IT) Group.  Jan has over 20 years of experience helping multinational companies in health care, financial services and telecommunication to develop infrastructure, systems and internal IT controls for enhanced reliability and regulatory compliance.  Currently, Jan leads IT audit teams across a number of Sarbanes-Oxley consulting and internal audit services projects for a variety of businesses with both domestic and international operations.  As an audit and consulting practice leader in the US and Latin America, Jan managed teams that provided guidance and support to clients integrating IT controls into advanced technology solutions.  Jan has written and lectured extensively on IT’s impact on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for transparency in financial reporting, information security and related topics in the US and abroad.

Van Rownd - President of Control Compliance Group, Atlanta – Technology Expert Witness, U.S.DCS

Van has spent the last thirty-six years working in Information Technology, starting with 10 years at IBM, 17 years as an independent Consultant, and 9 years as VP of Information Services.  As a consultant, Mr. Rownd concentrated on implementation of high availability systems and IT organizations.  AS VP, Mr. Rownd implemented a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity services plan for a company hosting the data services for the vast majority of class 2 and 3 railroads in North America.  He lead this transportation Company in satisfactory completion of SAS70 audits to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for the Rail Industry Public Holding Companies audited by all four of the major CPA firms.  His success in helping public companies achieve SOX compliance has contributed to the success of his company Control Compliance Group (CCG), and the acceptance of CCG by auditing firms to assist with the information technology audit.  As a result, CCG is a consultant to two of the four major CPA firms for training auditors in the IT audit process as well as providing these two clients with software tools for the field.

William R. Waas - Chairman, CEO and co-Founder of Information Technology Executive Exchange (ITEEx)

Prior to starting ITEEx, Mr. Waas was executive vice president of Valcom ($135 million systems integrator); he was responsible for operations and marketing.  He started his career at Grumman Data Systems Corporation and held various management positions in strategic planning, finance and service management.  Other notable career milestones for Mr. Waas include; Senior Vice President of Service and Support at Vanstar Corporation (a 2.5 billion dollar system integrator), where he headed the $250 million service organization, and Vice President of Value Added Services for Dell Computer Corporation.  Mr. Waas is currently on the board of Project Leadership Associates, and works extensively with ITEEx, a professional association focused on the introduction and adoption of emerging technology. He is an adjunct professor of the MSCIS programs for Northwesten University, Robert Morris College and Loyola University. Mr. Waas holds a BAA in accounting and a MBA in finance from Hofstra University.

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