Presenter Profiles
Adam Kirkman
Director Climate Change and SustainabilityProtiviti
Adam is the Global Director for Protiviti’s Climate Change Services practice and is an experienced career professional working with public and private sector clients on climate change policy, business and carbon risk advisory, strategy development, GHG reporting and verification, and design and implementation of emission trading schemes.Prior to joining Protiviti, Adam was the Program Manager for Energy and Climate Change at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva Switzerland, an international CEO led organisation representing over 200 of the world’s largest companies, with a combined market capitalisation exceeding USD$6 trillion. In this role Adam worked with senior corporate executives in analysing, defining and advocating the business’ role in the global energy, climate change and emissions trading policy debate. This included coordination of numerous multi-stakeholder dialogues and forums on emissions trading and climate policy design and implementation, report preparation, presentations and participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the G8 agendas.
In previous roles Adam has led international teams and climate practices in ‘Big Four’ advisory firms. He has been a guest lecturer at INSEAD on the transition to a low carbon economy and holds a masters degree in environmental law.
Barry Munns MIIA (Aust)
Chief Internal Auditor and Risk AssuranceAustralian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation
Barry MIIA (Aust), CISA, CISP, IIA Certi has been involved in Internal Audit, Risk Management and associated assurance review roles for approximately 20 years - across a range of industry sectors including transport, retail, welfare services, health, higher education & research, and energy infrastructure.
His experience cuts across both public and private sectors and Chief Audit Executive roles. He is currently the Chief Internal Audit & Risk Assurance with a key Australian science and technology organisation
Barry is a committee member and currently Vice Chair of the NSW Chapter Council of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Australia; member of the ISACA NSW Chapter and; a committee member and former Chair of the Corruption Prevention Network.
Barry holds a Bachelor of Business, Master of Management, and Master of Commerce (Information Systems). He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and has Practitioner level certifications in PRINCE2 and ITIL. He is also accredited as an IIA Quality Assurance Reviewer.
Barry has delivered professional development courses on Information Systems Audit, and made presentations on subjects relating to IT and Performance Audit, industrial control system security, corporate governance, and corruption prevention. In addition, he has conducted a number of external quality assurance reviews of Internal Audit Units for compliance with the IIA Professional Standards.
Gavin Steinberg
Managing DirectorSatori Group
Gavin Steinberg is the Managing Director of the Satori Group, which focuses on Data Assurance and Business Process Management. The Satori Group is the Australian distributor for ACL, Symsure and Pentana, all solutions focused at Internal Auditors. Gavin has been focussed on the use of software solutions to help automate and continuously monitors data in a number of large organisations. He has been involved in helping implement CCM solutions and help companies move from the idea of Annual Audit Processes to continuously doing these activities and most importantly managing the workflows that are impacted by this change
Heidi Forbes
Associate Director, Carbon Risk TeamProtiviti
Heidi is an experienced career professional who has worked with government, finance and industrial clients on climate change and carbon risk advisory, counterparty credit risk, and carbon finance transactions.
At Protiviti Heidi has worked with the energy and minerals industry in addressing the emerging requirement for carbon risk management as well the continuing complex issue of credit risk.
Prior to joining Protiviti, Heidi was a Vice President at Citi in London where she was employed to jointly establish and develop the Environmental Products desk. Here her work included all facets of deal processing from origination, pricing and structuring to execution and hedging in a variety of international locations such as Europe, China, India, Israel, Japan and South America.
Heidi has completed a Postgraduate Certificate Environmental Economics
Michael Parkinson
Director, GovernmentKPMG
Michael Parkinson CIA CISA is an internal auditor of more than 20 years experience. After 10 years in Information Technology and Government Finance he became an IT internal auditor in the early 1980s. He has worked as a government internal auditor for the last 20 years; the last 10 years as a service provider. Whilst working as a government employee he was the Chief Audit Executive of three different government agencies. Michael is currently a Director in the government services practice of KPMG Canberra.
Michael joined the Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors - Australia (IIA-Australia) in 1996, was elected Vice-President in 1998 and became National President of IIA-Australia in 1999, serving until 2001. He continued to serve on the Board of IIA-Australia until 2005. From 2001 until 2004, Michael worked as the Host Committee chair for the IIA International Conference held in Sydney in 2004 and served on the International Conference Committee during that period. Michael was the Australian nominee Director on the Board of IIA Global in 2008-2009 and is currently the International Secretary of IIA Global.
In 2005, Michael joined the IIA Global International Relations Committee and was appointed its chair in May 2007.
During 1994-97 and 2000-01 Michael represented Australia and New Zealand as the International Vice-President of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) During 2003-2006 he also served as the Chair of the ISACA International Education Board.
Michael has been the prime motivator and coordinator of a number of technical publications issued by IIA Australia and recently worked with the Global Vision Taskforce to revise the Professional Practices Framework. He currently serves on the Standards Australia OB-007 Risk Management Committee.
In 2007 he was presented with the Bob McDonald Award for contribution to the profession.
He served as the Honorary Secretary of the Asian Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditors for 2006-07 and as President of ACIIA from September 2007 to November 2008.
Neil Adams
DirectorAdams Consulting & Training
Neil is the Director of Adams Consulting & Training Pty Ltd and provides consultancy services to both the public and private sectors.
He has roles at senior levels of government and the private sector, and has substantial experience in both internal and external audit, corporate governance, probity, management and financial investigations, contract negotiations, and administration. He holds Bachelor degrees in both Business and Law, is a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Aust) and CPA Australia, is admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor, is a Certified Internal Auditor and is a Past Chairman of the NSW Council of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Aust).
Neil moved into consultancy in May 1998 following 9 years with Transfield Holdings (a construction, engineering and recreation group of companies with a turnover around $1.4 Billion) as General Manager, Group Internal Audit and General Manager, Finance & Administration, Asia. Prior to that he worked within the Australian National Audit Office rising to Second Assistant Auditor-General and NSW Regional Manager. As part of his consulting, he was Financial Adviser to the Olympic Coordination Authority and has undertaken project management, corporate governance, financial assessment, organisational and management reviews, and probity assignments for numerous state, federal and local government agencies.
Neil has had articles published by the Australian Institute of Public Administration, CPA Australia, the Institute of Internal Auditors, Councillor & Council Manager magazines and others, and has presented to international and national conferences, and led developments in probity advising and a number of audit-related fields. He is an accredited contributor to ICAC’s Probity Advising guidelines and to the Standards Australia Probity Handbook.
Phil Leifermann
Managing DirectorInsight Consulting
Phil Leifermann has over 23 years of management assurance consulting experience.
Phil worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for nearly 14 years in Australia and Indonesia, where he provided risk management, internal audit and IT audit consulting services. After leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, he started his own consulting firm in Indonesia, where he has built a team of 20 consultants providing similar consulting services. In addition, he has also completed projects in Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Vietnam.
After living and working overseas for the past 17 years, Phil is currently splitting his time between Australia and Asia, and has recently established a residence on the Gold Coast – where he is enjoying a more relaxed lifestyle.
Phil has a MBA is from the University of Western Australia and a Bachelor of Business (majoring in accounting and information systems) from Southern Cross University.
Phil Leifermann MBA
Sally-Anne Pitt CIA CGAP MIIA (Aust)
DirectorPitt Group Pty Ltd & Manager Consulting and Quality Services IIA-Australia
Sally-Anne Pitt is Director of Pitt Group Pty Ltd, a consulting firm established in 2003 to provide internal audit, risk management and program evaluation services. Sally-Anne has a Bachelor of Applied Science, Master of Public Policy and post-graduate business studies from the Darden Business School, University of Virginia (USA). She is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Risk Management and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Australia. Sally-Anne is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP) and is accredited as a Quality Assessment Reviewer by the Institute of Internal Auditors Australia.
Sally-Anne facilitates IIA-Australia's Quality Assessment courses and workshops.
Todd Davies CIA FIIA(Aust)
Director, Technical & PolicyIIA Australia
Todd Davies is IIA-Australia's Technical & Policy Director where he is responsible for IIA-Australia's policy agenda, advocacy, technical guidance and advisory support to Australia's Chief Auditor community.
He is an internationally recognised thought leader in the areas of risk, governance and assurance. He has held senior audit and risk roles for many years and been an active contributor to policy debate and the technical frameworks for the internal audit profession globally.
Todd was formerly Head of Audit & Risk at Fairfax Media Ltd, was global head of product development for KPMG's internal audit practice and has held advisory roles working at the senior most levels of a range of significant organisations in Australia and internationally
Tom McLeod
MIIA (Aust), MBA, BBus, CA
Tom McLeod is the Global Practice Leader Internal Audit at Rio Tinto. He has worked across a number of segments, including accounting, fast moving consumer goods, utilities, mining and telecommunications.
Tom has had extensive experience in Asia, the United States and Europe. Additionally Tom is a prolific writer on matters relating to internal audit, internal controls, risk management and corporate governance. Tom was a director of the IIA – Australia from 2008 to 2010 and has spoken at numerous IIA Australia and international events.
Preparing for Quality Self-Assessment
Tue, 5 October 2010
Continuous Control Monitoring
Tue, 7 December 2010
A Decade in Review | What the Noughties Taught Internal Audit