Corporate Governance Seminar

Exclusive Sponsor: Protiviti

Tuesday October 18, 2005
8:00 - 5:00

Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza (Map)
4200 Jim Walter Blvd., Tampa, 33607

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8:00 - 9:45 am: General Session - Creating Sustainable Improvements in Business Processes, presented Jeff Berk
10:00 - 11:45 am: Concurrent Sessions
- Lessons Learned, presented by Phil Fretwell, Managing Director for Protiviti in Orlando Florida
- Non Filers, Private Companies and Government, presented by Bill Thomas, Managing Director for Protiviti in Tampa, Florida
1:00 - 2:30 pm: SEC Overview, presented by a Chrisan Herrod, SEC
2:30 - 3:30 pm: Automation in Corporate Governance, presented by Jemin Thakkar, Approva
3:45 - 5:00 pm: Corporate Governance Panel, moderated by David F. Walker, Program Director, USF College of Business - St. Pete; Phil Fretwell; Chrisan Herrod; Jemin Thakkar; Gary Jordan, Danka - Submit a question to the Panel

Creating Sustainable Improvements in Business Processes

Jeffrey A. Berk

Hear the concepts that MBA candidates at prestigious universities like The Kellogg School at Northwestern learn. This session is a teaching tool for all managers regardless of their industry or functional area. It educates them on the concepts and tools needed by managers in leadership positions to make process changes in the areas for which they have accountability.

Jeffrey A. Berk is Vice President for a learning analytics technology company. Berk worked for Andersen spearheading the development of tools to measure business processes.

Berk teaches a graduate school course on process improvement at Loyola University in Chicago and at Northwestern’s Kellogg School in Evanston Illinois.

He has participated in performance improvement projects internationally. He has spoken on these topics and has been quoted and published in numerous periodicals. He is the author of Champions of Change: The Managers Guide to Creating Sustainable Improvements in Business Process.

Berk, a CPA, is a former auditor. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and undergraduate degrees from Kansas.

Concurrent Session - Lessons Learned

Phil Fretwell

Concurrent Session - Non Filers, Private Companies and Government

Bill Thomas

Bill Thomas is the Managing Director for Protiviti’s Tampa, Florida office. He is the current chair of the Center for Ethics Advisory Board at the University of Tampa.

Bill’s professional experience includes more than 12 years internal audit and fraud examination in the financial services industry, and more than eight years in public accounting and consulting. His primary areas of focus include corporate governance, business risk management and internal audit plan development and he meets regularly with Boards of Directors and senior executives on these matters. He is a member of Protiviti’s Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance task force and is a frequent speaker on corporate governance topics. Protiviti is an independent consulting company providing advisory services to senior executives and boards on matters related to business risk.

PCAOB/SEC Overview

Chrisan Herrod

Chrisan Herrod accepted her position with the Securities Exchange Commission as the Chief Security Officer in August 2004. She is responsible for information security and IT business continuity for the Commission. She is pursuing her PhD in Information Systems at NovaSoutheastern University.

Prior to the SEC, she was at the National Defense University, Information Resource Management College. She served as Department Chair of the Information Operations and Assurance Department where she was responsible for curriculum including information security, assurance, and operations and as a Professor of Information Security and Systems Management. The University provides graduate level education for the Department of Defense and United States Federal Department and Agencies.

Previously she was the Director of Global IT Security at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining GSK, she was the Director of Information Security at Fannie Mae, a leading real estate, financial institution. While at Fannie Mae she became involved in the White House sponsored, Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security as the Information Sharing and Analysis Working Group Chair, and is currently serving as a Special Advisor to the Health Care Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center initiative.

From 1993 to 1998 she was a senior civilian with the Department of Defense’s Information Security Program Office serving as Director of Plans, Policy and Resource Management and Director of IA Education, Training and Awareness. From 1988 to 1992, she was assigned to the White House Military Office, Office of Emergency Operations at the Defense Information Systems Agency.. Ms. Herrod served as an active duty officer in the US Army and retired as a Major, USAF Reserve.

She is an adjunct professor teaching information security and leadership courses with both the University of Fairfax and the University of Phoenix. From 1999 to 2001she taught information security graduate courses at the George Washington University.

Automation in Corporate Governance

Jemin Thakkar

Jemin Thakkar is a Director of ERP Solutions at Approva Corporation, a leader in Enterprise Controls Management. Prior to Approva, Jemin was a Manager in the Security practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and also at Deloitte and Touche, LLP. Jemin has over ten years of experience in reviewing and designing security and business process controls for fortune 1000 companies. Working in conjunction with industry leading auditors, compliance experts, and security professionals, Jemin contributes to Approva’s success by delivering software and best practices specifically designed to address inefficiency, compliance issues, and fraud in Fortune 1000 companies across a variety of industries.

Corporate Governance Panel

David F. Walker, Moderator

Mr. Walker is currently the Director of the Accountancy Program and the Program for Social Responsibility and Corporate Reporting in the College of Business at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, Florida (USF), where he has been employed since 2002. From 1975 through 2002, Mr. Walker worked with Arthur Andersen LLP, serving as a partner with that firm from 1986 through 2002.

In addition to his work at USF, Mr. Walker serves on the Board of Directors of Chico’s FAS (CHS), First Advantage Corporation (FADV), Paradyne Networks, Inc. (PDYN) and Technology Research Corporation, Inc. (TRCI), and serves on the audit, corporate governance, compensation and benefits and nominating committees at various Boards.

Mr. Walker earned an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business with concentrations in accounting, finance and marketing, and a BA degree from DePauw University with majors in economics and mathematics, and a minor in business administration. Mr. Walker is also a CPA, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

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