Speakers

General Sessions

Bernd Schartmann

President DIIR e. V., Conference Chair

Bernd Schartmann joined Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) in January 2004 as Head of Corporate Audit & Security (Chief Audit Executive). Prior he worked at KPMG for more than 13 years, the last years as a Partner in the area of audit related services. At DPWN Bernd has set up the global organization of Internal Audit including development and implementation of Best Practice Internal Audit Methodology. Bernd Schartmann is President of Deutsches Institut für Interne Revision e.V. (DIIR, IIA Germany), member of the Board of Directors of the Global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA Inc. USA) and member of the Management Board of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA).

Maurio di Gennaro

Chief Audit Executive and Compliance Officer, Fiat S.p.A.
Vice President of the IIA – Italy Chapter, President of the ECIIA

Mauro Di Gennaro joined Price Waterhouse in 1987 as Assistant Auditor and was subsequently promoted to Senior Manager. In 1994, he became Head of Internal Audit at Stet S.p.A. In 1997, Mauro joined Telecom Italia, where he held several positions, including Head of International Operations and Head of International Internal Auditing. In 2002, he was appointed Head of Internal Audit at the RAS Group. On January 1, 2004, he joined Fiat S.p.A. as Chief Audit Executive and Compliance Officer.

Prof. Dr. Jaap Winter

De Braws Blackstone Westbroek, Professor of International
Company Law, Univerity of Amsterdam, Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School in New York

Professor Dr. Jaap Winter is partner at the law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam. His practice areas include M&A, corporate governance and corporate litigation. Jaap was chairman of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts set up in 2001 by the European Commission to advise it on a modern regulatory framework for company law in Europe. The Group in January 2002 first advised on issues related to takeover bids. The final report of the Group on a Modern Regulatory Framework for Company Law in Europe was published on November 4, 2002, which includes amongst others recommendations on corporate governance regulation in the EU. This report is the basis for the Commission’s Company Law Action Plan. Jaap was a member of the Dutch Corporate Governance Committee, that has drafted the Dutch Corporate Governance Code of December 2003. He has chaired the Committee on Modernisation of the Investment Fund Industry, the Committee on Governance for Building Societies and the organization of non-executive directors of building societies VTW in 2006. Jaap received the 2004 International Corporate Governance Award from the International Corporate Governance Network. Jaap Winter is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch securities regulator AFM.

Miles Templeman

Director General, Institute of Directors

Miles Templeman began his career as a marketing specialist and gained his pedigree leading such major consumer brands as Daz, Ribena, Lucozade and then Levi’s Jeans. He then moved to general management and became Managing Director of Threshers and then the Whitbread Beer Company. He had great success in building those companies, especially with the growth of such brands as Boddingtons and Stella Artois. He then had a series of non-executive directorships and consultancy roles including Royal Mail, Ben Sherman and Accenture before becoming Chief Executive of Bulmers, which was eventually successfully sold to Scottish & Newcastle.
Miles is a passionate believer in the values of enterprise and assumed the role of Director General at the IoD at a time when its infl uence and relevance was at an all time peak. Alongside his IoD role, Miles is non-executive Chairman of Shepherd Neame, the Kentish family brewer; non-executive Chairman of restaurant chain YO! Sushi; and a non-executive director of Melrose PLC, the buy-out specialist.

Patricia Miller

CIA, CPA, CISA, Internal Audit partner with Deloitte & Touche, Oakland, California, Senior Vice Chairman of the global Board of the IIA, Chairman-elect for 2008/2009, Past Vice Chairman – Professional Practices, Vice Chairman – Professional Services, Vice Chair of the Standards Board, Member of the Board of Regents, President of the San Francisco Chapter of The IIA for a term.

Patricia K. Miller is an experienced Internal Audit partner in the Northern California Enterprise Risk Services (ERS) practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. During her career with Deloitte, she has provided a broad array of services to her clients, including Internal Audit strategic and quality assessments, business and audit risk evaluations, audit planning and implementation services, operational and information systems control evaluations and Sarbanes-Oxley readiness services. Patty joined the Deloitte & Touche ERS practice in 1997, following a 14-year career with Pacific Telesis and Pacific Bell where she held numerous management positions in diverse areas including Internal Audit, billing systems, financial management and planning, process design and engineering, project and program management, and merger planning and integration.

Track A : Managing the Internal Audit Function

David Defroand

Partner, Head of Internal Audit Services for KPMG Europe LLP, London, UK

David Defroand is Head of Internal Audit Services for KPMG Europe LLP. He specialises in Internal Audit effectiveness reviews, acts as Head of Internal Audit on a number of out-source and co-source contracts, performs Corporate Governance reviews and advises on risk and control. David is a member of KPMG’s Client Service Board and of KPMG’s Global Consumer Markets Steering Group. David is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Prof. Ulrich Bantleon

WP/StB, Head of Banking, Department of the University of Cooperative Education, Villingen-Schwenningen, Member of the Scientific Advisory Concil, the CIA-Commitee and the working group “MaRisk” of DIIR

In 1994 Prof. Ulrich Bantleon became a member of the Württembergischen Genossenschaftsverband Raiffeisen/Schulze-Delitzsch e.V. During this period he qualified as an certified external auditor and tax consultant (WP/StB). He was responsible for auditing more than 40 banks. In 2003, he took up a post as Professor of Banking & Auditing at the University of Cooperative Education in Villingen-Schwenningen. He is author of various publications in the field of auditing and accounting.

Michael Klinger

Country Managing Director, Protiviti

Michael Klinger started his professional career at Citibank Internal Audit in 1994. After two years professional Internal Audit experience he joined corprorate audit of Citigroup where he gained international Internal Audit experience. In 1998 Michael joined Arthur Andersen where he built the Business Process Risk Consulting practice delivering Internal Audit solutions to the Financial Services Industry. After the merger with Ernst & Young Michael joined KPMG where he lead the Management Assurance Services (MAS) FSI team and was promoted to a partner in 2005. Since April 2006 he is Country Managing Director of Protiviti Germany.

Jürgen Martin

Head of Internal Audit Allianz Deutschland AG

As of January 2006, Jürgen Martin is responsible for the Internal Audit Departments of the German PP&C, Life and Health Business. In this capacity, Jürgen oversees the activities of nearly 130 auditors and reports directly to Dr. Gerhard Rupprecht, CEO of Allianz Deutschland AG and Member of the Allianz Holding Board. Jürgen is a member of the Internal Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). Prior to his current position, Jürgen headed the Internal Audit function for the German PP&C Group from April 2003 through December 2005. During this tenure, Jürgen implemented and effectively deployed an integrated, risk-oriented audit approach. Before his engagement with the audit function Jürgen was head of a Customer Care Center in the Bavaria-based branch office of the P&C Group. Jürgen’s affiliation with the Allianz Group began in 1993 when he assumed responsibility for an in-house consulting team based in the head office of the German PP&C Group in Munich. Jürgen began his business career as a management consultant with Siemens AG with some international experience in Singapore.

Track B : Corporate Governance, Compliance & International Audit in Eastern Europe

Martin Wiedemann

Partner Advisory Services, Ernst & Young CIS, Moskau

Martin Wiedemann joined the BRS Department for CIS in Moscow in September 2005 as Deputy Leader. In July 2007 he was promoted to head in the BRS CIS Department. His major role is to continue building and leading the BRS service line to provide Internal Audit, internal control, risk management and corporate governance services to clients in all industries in Russia and the entire CIS. Martin brings a range of international experience having worked for Ernst & Young in a number of countries in a number of roles. He also worked for the “Internal Audit Services” Department in Switzerland performing teaming and outsourcing engagements for large Swiss multinationals. In 2002 he joined the Headquarters of Ernst & Young (Global) in the UK. From 2004 to 2005 he started the BRS Department in Qatar, Middle East.

Ivo Streda

Head of Internal Audit RWE Transgas, a.s.; Member of Honorary Presidium of Czech Institute of Internal Auditors

Ivo Streda has worked for the last two years as Head of Internal Audit in RWE Transgas and is responsible for the Internal Audit function within the whole RWE group in the Czech Republic (Group of 19 companies). Ivo worked as radiation safety expert on 3 nuclear power plants in former Czechoslovakia. From 1993 he has been focusing on Internal Auditing. He built up or transformed Internal Audit Departments in companies: CEZ (Czech Power Company), Czech Telecom, E.ON Bohemia, CSA (Czech Airlines). Ivo was Director of Business Risk Services in Ernst & Young in CR. He was the first president of the Czech Institute of Internal Auditors, vice-president of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing and member of Supervisory Board of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic.

Torsten Vesper

Partner Advisory Services, Ernst & Young AG, Düsseldorf

In his current position Torsten Vesper is focusing on Internal Auditing Partnering, Quality Assessment of Internal Audit, Corporate Compliance and other Internal Controls-related projects mainly for multinational companies. In addition he takes responsibility for Quality & Risk Management within the Advisory Services in Germany and Austria. Since 1997 he is also General Manager of Ernst & Young Retail Services GmbH. Torsten started his professional career in 1990 in the Corporate Auditing of Bayer AG. In 1995 he joined Arthur Andersen to setup and develop the Internal Audit Services. In 1999 Torsten became Partner of Arthur Andersen. Since the merger with Ernst & Young in 2002 he is working in the Advisory Services to advise companies in the field of Internal Audit and corporate compliance.

Phil Tarling

International Partner RSM Bentley Jennison;
Director IIA UK and Ireland, Director IIA Inc;
Chairman, Global Finance Committee, IIA Inc

Gerry Cox

Head of Internal Audit Partnership
South West Audit Partnership

Gerry Cox is Head of Internal Audit Partnership for South West Audit Partners, an organisation that provides internal audit services to an increasing number of local authorities in the south west of England. He is a qualified member of the UK and Ireland Institute (MIIA), as well as being a CIA, and is currently Chairman of the Board of IIA Global. He is also a past president of IIA-UK and Ireland and past president of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA).
Gerry has nearly 30 years internal audit experience, most of which has been spent in the public sector. He has also had a number of other roles including heading-up an I.S. department and prior to taking up his present appointment in 2005, was Group Manager – Business Support for South Somerset Council in the UK.

Hans-Peter Kemper

Senior Manager Group Corporate Audit RWE AG

Hans-Peter Kemper is responsible for supervising and monitoring Internal Audit activities within the companies American Water, RWE Energy, RWE Gas Midstream and RWE Systems (including all subsidiaries). Hans-Peter has experience as Auditor, Audit Manager and Senior Manager within several industries (e.g. steel, chemical, assurance). Since 1993 he is in the Internal Auditing department of RWE Group.

Prof. Dr. Vahid Novruzov

Chairman, The Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan Republic; President of IIA-Azerbaijan

Vahid Tapdig Novruzov is the Doctor of Economic Sciences and professor. He worked in different positions in the Scientific Research Institute of Economy. Besides, in 1992-1996 he was the head of the department on civil law and economic legislation. On April 4, 1996 he was appointed the chairman of the Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan Republic. He is the author of more then 100 scientific works- monographs and articles published in the Republic of Azerbaijan and abroad. Vahid Novruzov is the president of IIA-Azerbaijan.

Pavel Vácha PhD, CIA

Vice President Internal Audit T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s.; Immediate Past President IIA Czech Republic

Pavel has 13 years of experience with auditing in several countries across Europe. Before joining T-Mobile, he was the internal auditor at Royal Philips Electronics. Prior entering the auditing field, he held a couple of sales and marketing positions. Besides operational audits, Pavel has got considerable experience in fraud investigation.

Track C : New Corporate Governance & Compliance Topics for IT Audit

Lily Bi

CIA, CISA, Director, Technology Practices, The Institute of Internal Auditors Staff Liaison with Advanced Technology Committee

Lily Bi is responsible for identifying, research, and assist in the development of strategies and implementation of programs to position. The IIA as a leading provider of information technology guidance to Internal Auditors. Since 2005, Bi led the development of Global Technology Audit Guides (GTAG®) series which are viewed as leading Technology guidance globally. Lily joined the IIA in June 2005. Working in technology fields in banking and consulting industries for more than 18 years, she has extensive knowledge and experience on IT development, security, internal controls and risk management. Holding an Msc., Lily’s career spans from Japan, China, Singapore to United States.

Ingo Bauer

Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Jochen K. Michels

Owner, Management Consultancy for IT

Jochen K. Michels serves the IT-Industry in the German speaking countries by analyzing market prices for most IT-Services. He owns the consultancy “Unternehmensberatung für DV” which coordinates a joint effort of many participating using-corporations. More than 40 workshops were organized and moderated by Jochen to arrive at a better understanding and use of IT-Financial Management. Many presentations and talks were held on these topics in Germany, Europe and the US. Jochen published more than 100 articles on IT-Financial Management topics in ITand economic papers and five books. As member of the workgroup IT-Controlling within the GI – Gesellschaft for Informatik he managed the taskgroup on “Benchmarking”.

Wim Eysink

Chartered Auditor, Partner Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte, Member of IIA 2007 Amsterdam Global Conference

Track D : Quality Management

Günther Meggeneder

CIA, Independent Consultant,
Member of the Executive Committee of the IIA

Since August 2007 Günther Meggeneder works as an independent consultant in the areas Internal Audit, Risk Management and Corporate Governance. In that role he works together with the European Commission, OECD, OSCE and other organizations to train and support Internal Auditors around Europe. Günther’s current position at the IIA is Vice Chairman Professional Services, responsible for Academic Relations, Government Relations, International Relations and Membership. Günther has been working as an auditor for his whole career; first for MWF in Salzburg and from 1996 on as Senior Auditor in the area of European Union related services of AMA (Agrarmarkt Austria) in Vienna, Austria. From January 1998 till July 2007 he has been Chief Audit Executive of AMA. Günther started to work as a volunteer for the Austrian Institute of Internal Auditors and also for the Institute of Internal Auditors globally (Standards Board 2002 – 2006, 2006 – 2008 Vice Chairman Professional Practices).

Ralph Weckler

Partner, Head of Internal Audit Services KPMG Germany, Frankfurt, Germany

Ralph Weckler is involved in several major Sarbanes Oxley Projects of KPMG. Furthermore, Ralph is a member of KPMG’s Sarbanes Oxley core team in Germany. At present, he is responsible for the Internal Audit Business in Germany. Moreover, he has extensive practical experience in developing and implementing enterprise wide risk management systems, including a self-assessment process and an early warning system. Ralph is also experienced in designing, improving and implementing a “State-of the art” internal control framework. Ralph has more than 10 years professional experience, especially in Internal Audit and Risk Management projects.

Norbert Heydemann

CIA, CCSA, SWM Stadtwerke München (Munich Utilities) Chief Audit Executive, AntiFraud Officer

SWM – Munich Utilities and Public Transportation, the largest public-owned infrastructure services provider of Germany; He is specialized in audit management as well as corporate risk management, technical, and process/control system audits. Before his current task, he developed the corporate planning system and steered major M&A activities and re-engineering projects of SWM and citiworks (subsidiary for energy sales, trading and risk management). Norbert also worked at Deutsche Bank, Andersen Consulting, and Arthur D. Little.

Track E : Corporate Governance, Compliance & Internal Audit in small and medium-sized enterprises

Dieter Wunderlich

Head of International Internal Audit, Rödl & Partner

Dieter Wunderlich coordinates and takes responsibility for Internal Audit activities within clients' organizations. With interdisciplinary teams of international Internal Auditors Rödl & Partner supports globally operating companies – most of them German “Mittelstand" companies – in more than 40 countries as out- and co-sourcing partners in achieving their goals. Since 2000 Dieter works for Rödl & Partner and is experienced project manager and Chief Audit Executive. He is lecturer at GSO Management Institute of International Business on “Rating Advisory for SMEs" and wrote diverse publications about “Qualitative and Quantitative Enterprise Analysis", “Rating of SMEs", “Risk Management", and “International Internal Auditing".

Dr. Ullrich Hahn

CISA, CIA, CGAP, CCSA, Past Chairman, ECIIA Member of the IIA Advanced Technology Committee and misc. IIA project goups, Past Board member: ECIIA, IIA Germany, ISACA Germany

Dr. Ulrich Hahn lectures in many countries internal and IS auditing, CIA, CISA, and other professional exams, and writes and speaks on audit and governance matters. He provides management support to private and public sector audit functions, and technical support for national professional bodies. Ulrich also contributes extensively to international professional activities and knowledge sharing including research and education with leading business schools. Ulrich has worked with major international accountancies, for a large IT service provider and as an audit director of a global audit department. His stewardship roles included chairmanship of the ECIIA and board membership of several auditing bodies.

Dr. Matthias Kopetzky

CPA, CFA, CIA, CEO, Business Valuation GmbH, Wien, Leader of Anti-Fraud-Study-Group at IIA-Austria

Dr. Matthias Kopetzky is a specialist on all aspects of anti-fraud measures and fraud prevention. He teaches as lecturer at different universities and holds seminars for a lot of well known professional associations like the Institute of Internal Auditing Austria and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). He was engaged for seminars and consulting work by the Vienna Stock Exchange during international consulting projects in Russia, China, Slowakia. Matthias has various professional certifications like the CPA, CIA, CFE and is certified expert witness in Austria.

Klaus-Dieter Göbel

Partner, Bossert & Göbel; Head of DIIR Group SME

Klaus-Dieter Göbel has 30 years of audit skills, 25 years in leading positions in international companies. He worked and lived in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Carribean. Klaus-Dieter’s main topics are financial, operational and management audits, Due Diligence, Organization and Fraud. He is also involved in special missions worldwide (trouble shooting).

Track F : New Developments in Fraud and Ethics Audit

Marc Becker

CPA, CFE, Managing Partner, Görling Forensic GmbH

Roger Odenthal

CEO, Roger Odenthal Consultancy
Chief Executive of serveral audit companies; Expert in Auditing Fraud, SAP Auditing, IT Auditing CAAT

Hans Winters

Chief Audit Officer, Siemens AG

Hans Winters has global responsibilities for Internal Audit services at Siemens AG and its affiliates. From 2003 until 2007 Hans was a partner leading the PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities Litigation practice in Continental Europe. He started his career in 1993 at PricewaterhouseCoopers N.V. as Audit and Transaction Services Manager in the Netherlands. From 1998 until 2001 he worked as Audit and Transaction Services Manager at PWC in San Jose, USA. Back to Europe, Hans Winters held the position of Senior Manager Global Capital Markets Group at PwC until 2003.

Track V : Vendor presentations & solutions

Jörg Meyer

Senior Manager Forensic Technology, Cologne, Germany

Jörg Meyer is Senior Manager in KPMG’s German Forensic Technology practice. In this role he develops advanced Forensic Technology solutions for demanding national and international customers. To achieve this he leverages the expertise and ressources of the joint Forensic Technology team of KPMG Europe. Jörg was the CIO of a medium sized group of companies for seven years. During that time he was member of a standardization working group for the European Commission. He joined KPMG Forensic in 1999 to build up a Forensic Technology team. He is a Certifed Information Systems Auditor and has additional nine years of experience in the assessment of IT systems and the analysis of business processes and transaction data. Jörg has led major investigations and is an expert in forensic investigation techniques such as Digital Evidence Recovery and Forensic Data Analysis.

Bernd Reimer

WP/StB, CIA, CFE, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Bernd Reimer is Process Assurance Partner at PwC and responsible for Fraud Prevention & Detection and Internal Audit Services. In 1992 Bernd started in the technical department of PwC. After passing various exams (WP, StB, CIA, CFE) he moved to Process Assurance to build up the Internal Audit practice in 2000. Since 2003 he is responsible for Fraud Prevention & Detection services within the Assurance practice in PwC Germany. His team developed FraudScan®, a methodology to detect fraud.

Michael Plaumann-Ewerdwalbesloh

CIA, QAA, Partner Advisory Services, Ernst & Young AG, Eschborn, Germany

Michael Plaumann-Ewerdwalbesloh holds various management roles including Solution Leader for Internal Audit Services in Germany and Managing Partner of Business Risk Services within the German Financial Services Organization. Michael joined Ernst & Young in 2000 with more than ten years of professional experience in the banking industry. He held various management positions in the field of Internal Audit and strategic controlling. Since joining Ernst & Young, Michael's work has focused on the management and coordination of Internal Audit projects as well as process reengineering engagements in the financial services sector and for selected industry clients. Furthermore, Michael manages various projects covering business process design, improvements and post merger integrations.

Kilian Braunsdorf

Senior Manager, Protiviti

Kilian Braunsdorf is Senior Manager at Protiviti. Kilian is responsible for the execution on client engagements, and maintaining relationships with senior client personnel. Kilian has a leadership position in Protiviti’s service offerings in Germany in the areas of Finance Transformation and Internal Audit. Kilian joined Protiviti in April 2006 as member of the founding team in Germany. Previously he worked as a Manager for Ernst & Young Risk and Advisory Services and Arthur Andersen Business Process Risk Consulting. During his professional career Kilian was able to gain experience in several industry sectors focused on finance processes and internal control systems.

Jan Corstens

Partner ERS Contract Risk & Compliance Services, Deloitte

Jan Corstens is a partner in the Belgian office of Deloitte and leads a team of experts in Contract Risk and Compliance services that operates on an EMEA wide level. Throughout the last 10 years, Jan has performed and managed multiple royalty and IP audits in the software, hardware and technology space. As part of his EMEA role he has been able to build extensive knowledge of the distributor world in the Middle-East and Africa. Since 2000, he is a certified Information Systems auditor. Jan started his career at Deloitte in 1997.

Marc Neumann

Managing Director
BFCS Business & Finance Consulting Services GmbH
Co-Authored article on IT-Governance in the “Compliance Report”, November 2007 Issue

Marc Neumann is Managing Director at BFCS with expertise in strategic risk and value management, Internal Audit, business process improvement, performance management, strategic planning, program/ project management, post merger integration and compliance. Prior to BFCS, Marc worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Germany and gained extensive international experience during several years with PwC Australia and PwC Canada. In addition, Marc worked at VAW aluminum within its Corporate Controlling/M&A department and more recently at Ecolab Europe as European Division Controller.

Hans-Willi Jackmuth

Executive Vice President, agens Consulting GmbH

Hans-Willi Jackmuth takes responsibility for agens Consulting GmbH for all activitites around audit and risk. The topical themes of the teams of Hans-Willi are internal control systems (e.g. SOX), IT, audit methodology and risk management. Above that they are able to deal with other topics (e.g. Fraud oder SAP-Audits). Hans-Willi has been dealing for more than two decades with the topics audit and risk. Before his career as an Internal Auditor he worked as a bank manager. He started Internal Audit with an operational review on mortgage credits. He speaks from his own experience to young auditors at the German Chapter of the IIA about like risk and audit strategy, internal control systems and other typical audit concepts.

Richard Jansen

Area Manager DACH, BWise

Since 2001 Richard Jansen is working for BWise. Expert in the area of software/solutions that supports risk management, internal control and compliance initiatives. Project experience in banking, insurance, pharma, chemical, logistics and production industry. Today Richard Jansen is Area Manager Germany, Switzerland, Austria. He is responsible for developping the BWise Governance, Risk and Compliance market in this region.

Thorsten Rütze

Senior Consultant, Protiviti

Thorsten Rütze is leading the IT Audit and Compliance Practice at Protiviti Germany. Previously, Thorsten worked as an internal information technology auditor for the DZ BANK AG for 4 years and as student for VR-Leasing AG in the project-management team.