Navigating the Cybersecurity Storm: Risk Management Webcast

Robert Listerman, CPA

Bob is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, State of Michigan and has over 35 years of experience as a process improvement business consultant. He graduated from Michigan State University and became a CPA while employed at Touche Ross & Co., Detroit, now known as a member firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. He is the Founder and President of Business Technology Resources, LLC doing business as BTR-Security.

Bob serves his professional community as a member of Pennsylvania Institue of Certified Public Accountants where he serves on the Information Technology Assurance Committee as its Sub-committee Chair for IT Assurance Continuing Professional Education. He is also past President and active Board Member for the Institute of Management Accountants Mid Atlantic Council. Bob serves the community as an active Rotarian.

John McLaughlin, CPA, CRMA

John McLaughlin is a partner in Marcum's Philadelphia office and a member of the Firm's Assurance Services division. He came to Marcum in 2015 via the Firm's merger with Smart Devine, a leading full-service accounting firm in Philadelphia.

Mr. McLaughlin has more than 25 years of public accounting and private industry experience and has served a broad range of clients primarily in the consumer products, financial services, distribution, life sciences, technology, retail, energy, and healthcare industries.

He joined Smart Devine in 2014, having previously worked at a national accounting firm providing assurance, advisory and consulting services to both publicly traded and privately held companies. There, he was responsible for risk, governance and control engagements assisting clients with risk management, IT and financial auditing, enterprise risk management (ERM) program development, SOC 1 & SOC 2 examinations, internal audit strategy, developing and monitoring programs to measure compliance with laws and regulations, and evaluating and improving operational efficiency and effectiveness.

His previous experience included serving as an IT and internal audit services director for a "Big 4" accounting & consulting firm, and as a corporate finance and internal audit director for a multi-billion dollar, multi-national services company. Mr. McLaughlin's responsibilities in these capacities included evaluating financial reporting compliance and compliance with laws and regulations, coordinating integrated business process reviews, and directing acquisition and divestiture due diligence activities. Earlier in his career, John was an assistant corporate controller for a national real estate developer and started his career with two "Big 8" accounting firms.

John is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Mercy Health System Audit and Finance Committees. He also serves on the Institute of Internal Auditors International Committee of Research and Educations Advisors. He has written several articles in an industry group newsletter and has been quoted in a number of national publications on the topics of enterprise risk, internal auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Robert Risk, MSCIS

Bob has 35 years of IT leadership experience. For the past 15 years he has worked in the CPA industry working as the IT Director/CIO for Amper, Politziner and Mattia and then as the CTO for EisnerAmper. Bob has demonstrated success leading and transforming growth oriented organizations. Bob has a track record of strategic business decisions, system implementations and aligning Information Technology with organizational goals enabling immediate savings with long term profitable growth. He takes pride in being an agent of change with diverse expertise and a history of delivering high impact projects providing exceptional business value.

Bob is currently the Director of Technology Advisory Services at Wiss & Company, LLP. Bob assists a wide variety of Wiss’s client with Strategic Planning, Cloud Migration, Business Process Reviews, IT Assessments, Security Planning, IT Governance, System selection and implementations.