CUNA Supervisory Committee & Internal Audit Conference
Instructors

Instructors

  Bill Hampel

Bill is senior vice president of the research and policy analysis department and chief economist for Credit Union National Association. He joined the department as an economist in 1978, was promoted to vice president in 1985, then appointed to senior vice president in 1992. He also writes economic analysis columns for several credit union publications.

  David A. Reed

David A. Reed, founder of CU Doctor, is an author, consultant, and nationally recognized speaker. Reed provides guidance to credit unions concerning a variety of matters, including credit union policies and procedures, organizational compliance, collections, security, contractual agreements, regulatory matters, and corporate governance. A former bankruptcy attorney, vice president, and general counsel for a large credit union, Reed is particularly noted as an expert in the areas of bankruptcy and collections.

  Tim Harrington, CPA

Tim is president of T.E.A.M. Resources, a training and consulting firm that provides consulting, strategic planning, and training to credit unions from coast-to-coast. Tim is a dynamic speaker who can make complex subjects very simple. As an expert in the field of credit unions, he has been involved in hundreds of credit union audit engagements and has consulted with, and provided training to, credit union employees throughout the country. Tim has been working with credit unions since 1989 when he directed the internal audit of a $100-million-dollar credit union. As an internal auditor, he gained a deep understanding of credit unions, their problems and successes.

  Kathleen Thompson

Kathleen Thompson is senior vice president and associate general counsel for the Credit Union National Association (CUNA). For 20 years, she has represented credit unions before the National Credit Union Administration, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and other federal agencies. She is currently focusing her efforts on increasing CUNA's compliance information to leagues and credit unions while providing assistance in the drafting of legislation and the preparation of testimony for Congress.

  Tony Popanz

Tony is an internal audit and controls engagement manager at Jefferson Wells. He is a frequent speaker, trainer, and author on the topics of enterprise risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, enterprise risk assessment, and project management. He holds Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications

  Marcia Barron, CPA

Marcia Barron is the director of internal audits for Credit Union National Association and CUNA Strategic Services, Inc. She is responsible for providing an independent evaluation function, primarily focused on assisting management and the audit committees in the ongoing development of the control environment. She is also involved in the evaluation and assessment of significant risk associated with new, merging, and consolidating functions that impact services, processes, operations, and controls. Marcia has over twenty years of experience in finance and audit.

  Julie Esser

Julie Esser, director of new alliances for CUNA Strategic Services, is responsible for the development of new strategic alliance relationships. This includes assessing the marketplace needs; understanding the market opportunities and threats; determining if a new product line would be better supported through a new alliance or existing one; executing and evaluating RFPs; conducting the due diligence investigation; creating the business plan; developing overall profitability; and creating marketing, sales, and support strategies. Julie has been with CUNA for 20 years and has extensive experience in product management, marketing, product development, and project management.

  Eileen Iles

Eileen has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Her experience includes: management of risk management, including risk-based internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing relationships; consultations with financial institutions regarding Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 and internal control assessment and attestation requirements; consultations with financial institutions to improve internal control environments; development of Crowe Chizek's financial institutions continuing professional education program; and continuing professional education instructor.

  Ron Parker, CPA

Ron is a certified public accountant and partner at Clifton Gunderson, LLP and has been actively involved with credit unions and in the practice of public accounting for more than 35 years. Having served on the board of directors and supervisory committees of credit unions and working with hundreds of credit unions in an audit and consulting capacity, Ron is uniquely familiar with the challenges that credit unions face. Ron has worked in conjunction with officials at NCUA, the National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors (NASCUS), Credit Union National Association (CUNA), and other state and national credit union organizations.

  Barbara Wirtz

Barbara works with executives to develop leadership expertise within their organizations. Her ideas have been published in 40 articles in 10 professional trade journals including The Credit Union Journal, Credit Union Magazine, Credit Union Executive Newsletter, Credit Union Directors Newsletter, and Credit Union Management. In addition to her speaking, facilitating, training, and coaching, she draws on her nine years of experience as a Chamber of Commerce and American Marketing Association board member.

  Dayle Alsbury

Dayle Alsbury is responsible for managing the engineering security services division at TraceSecurity. This includes comprehensive assessments, penetration testing, social engineering, and security awareness training. With his comprehensive security background, and numerous certifications including CISSP, Dayle insures the highest level of customer service that is associated with TraceSecurity. In addition to managing and training the engineers of TraceSecurity, Dayle also contributes to the management of the overall security of the TraceSecurity Network.

  Donald Thompson

Don Thompson has been with CUMIS Insurance Society, the property and casualty company of the CUNA Mutual Group, since 1983. Most of that time has been spent as a risk manager. His time not spent in risk management was spent as the bondability underwriting manager. Don was the first bondability manager and developed that program.

As a risk manger, Don is responsible for assisting credit unions in identifying areas of risk in their operations and recommending appropriate controls to reduce exposures to loss. One facet of the risk management department is the fidelity analysis program which is designed to detect on-going embezzlements in credit unions. In addition, Don provides training to federal and state regulatory agencies, internal auditors, certified public accountants and credit unions.

Prior to joining CUMIS, he served as vice president of lending at Evergreen Federal Savings. He has also earned the Certified Fraud Examiner designation.

  Scot Kern

Scot is the supervisory examiner responsible for federally insured credit unions located in the state of Nevada and northern California, including the San Francisco Bay area. He is responsible for the financial safety and soundness and the examination and supervision activities for over 150 credit unions with $34 billion in assets. Scot began his NCUA career in 1996 as an examiner in Buffalo, New York. He also served as an examiner and problem case officer in NCUA's western region, a supervision analyst in Austin, Texas, and a supervisory examiner in Columbus, Ohio. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.