Edna De Leon, CPA, CIA, CISA
Consultant for Internal Audit at Rustan Commercial Corp.Edna may be aptly called a career auditor, having spent her professional life in the field of auditing, in both external and internal audit practice. Her career, spanning more than 4 decades, includes external audit work with Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Company (SGV), management of Internal Audit Services for companies within the Rustan Group of Companies (RGOC), and 25 years of Audit Committee work with a Unibank.
After a brief stint as SVP-Internal Audit Office with a government financial institution, Edna returned to Rustan Commercial Corporation as Consultant for Internal Audit, Loss Prevention, and Data Privacy. As the Data Protection Officer, she obtained credentials from TUV Rheinland such as Certified Data Protection Officer (2018) and Certified Data Privacy Protection Auditor (2019), and the National Privacy Commission’s Data Protection Officer ACE Level 1 (2019).
Edna has been an officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Philippines (IIAP) since 2000, taking the helm as President in 2004. She continues to be a resource for IIAP as facilitator in its Public and In-House Seminars. Her specialization is in Quality Assurance Review (QAR) of Internal Audit, as both a Trainor and a Team Leader for External Quality Assurance Review engagements of the IIAP.
Ms. Mary Jane Rosales, CPA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA
Senior Partner at Domingo, Rosales and Associates, CPAsJane is currently a Professional Development Consultant where she performs various training & consulting services. She also conducts various in-house or public run seminars on internal auditing, controllership and financial statement literacy for top organizations in the country. Prior to this, she was the Area Controller for Refinery Division in Petron Corporation with the overall function of handling controllership, internal auditing, risk management coordination and selected finance functions in Petron’s Refinery in Bataan.
Jane is a distinguished Toastmaster and Accredited Quality Assessor and Validator.
She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree of B.S Business Administration Major in Accounting. She is the Past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Philippines in 2008.
Michael Cabatuando, CIA, CCSA, CPA, CRMA, MBA, CICA, CrFA, CIPP/E
Director, Global Privacy of Johnson and Johnson International (Singapore) PTE LTDMike is the Director of Global Privacy and appointed Data Protection Officer (DPO) for Philippines and Singapore for Johnson and Johnson group of companies. He joined J&J as Compliance Head of the Manila Accounting Shared Service Center in 2009 and later as the Regional Compliance Lead for Asia-Pacific’s Center of Excellence in Finance where he received the “Encore Platinum Award” for excellent performance in documentation of the company’s processes and controls. He is also a Johnson and Johnson Leader Awardee for Business Partnering in building the privacy compliance program for J&J Philippines, South Korea, and China.
Prior to J&J, Mike was Senior Internal Audit Manager of Concentrix Philippines where he worked on global SOX 404 engagements in the USA, Canada, France, Netherlands, Japan, and China offices. Mike’s extensive audit career started in the business outsourcing industry. He was a Risk Manager at the PeopleSupport Inc. and a project team leader for the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for the Los Angeles and Costa Rica Offices. Mike then joined Citibank as Compliance and Controls Manager for Citigroup Business Process Solutions (CBPS). He assisted in the implementation of the business unit’s Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program.
He was a Board Director of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Philippines in 2007 and 2008, in-charge of Membership and Convention Committee. For years, Mike has been the Membership & Professional Development Committee Chair where he revitalized its activities and refocused its goals to the Institute’s mission-vision. He has been a resource speaker of the IIA-P for its Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Review Program, Public Run Seminar, and In-house seminar for private and publicly listed corporations since 2007. He is also a lecturer at the Philippines Institute of Certified Public Accountant (PICPA) and Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants.
Mike has 20 years of experience in internal and external audit, data privacy, cyber security, risk management, compliance, forensic accounting, and fraud audit engagements. He has robust technical knowledge of International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), Data Privacy Framework, COSO Control/ ERM Framework, SOX, IFRS, KYC, FCPA, COBIT and GTAG.
He is an active member of the Information Association of Privacy Professionals and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). He is also the sector lead of the Pharma DPO Council of the Philippines.
Susan Domngo, CPA, CRA, CIA
Managing Partner at Domingo Rosales & Associates, CPAs• Formerly, VP – Audit and Compliance at International Container Terminal Services Inc.
• She is a CPA, CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), CCSA (Certification in Controls Self-Assessment) and CRA (Certified Risk Analyst) with more than 30 years of extensive internal audit experience (financial, operational and IT audits – general, applications, pre / post-implementation audits) in several multinational and domestic companies.
• She specializes in internal audit outsource services, business process / system controls reviews, enterprise risk management, and development of policies and procedures.
• Assisted large multinational and local companies in designing the business controls used as baseline reference in the implementation of ERP systems.
• Susan graduated cum laude from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Accounting major. She is a member of PICPA and IIA-Philippines.
• She has previously served the Institute of Internal Auditors – Philippines in various capacities and was its president from 1995-1996.
• Facilitates CIA review and other training sessions for the Institute of Internal Auditors, Philippines.
Ally Rannie Nicdao, CPA, CISA, CIA, CRISC, CRMA, CPISI, ISO 3100 Lead Risk Manager
Seasoned Internal and IT Audit ProfessionalAlly is a Seasoned, Risk Management, Internal and IT Audit Professional. He has more than eight (10) years of working experience in information systems audit, internal audit, governance, risk management, compliance readiness assessments and business process reviews, across various industries, with specialization in the financial services sector.
Currently, he is working as the Vice President Compliance Assurance in Technology in one of the biggest multinational banks.
Prior in joining the biggest multinational banks he is a former AVP Audit and Risk Management Executive in one of the leading health maintenance organizations (HMO) in the Philippines handling operational risk, information technology risk, data privacy, information security and consumer protection program.
Prior to joining the HMO company, he was one of the managers of Isla Lipana & Co., member firm of PwC, and was the designated champion for its IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution set specifically in the financial services sector. Also, he worked as the head office and information system audit division head in a banking subsidiary of one of the biggest conglomerates in the Philippines.
He is also a part-time facilitator in the Institute of Internal Auditors, Philippines handling various topics such as CAATs Using Excel, Risk-based Audit, Operations Audit and Fundamentals of IT Audit.
Philippine top-notcher in the CRISC examination (top 5% of the global top-notchers) and part of the top 20% of the global passers for the CISA examination examination given by ISACA
Gerlyn Gamboa, CPA, CIA, CRMA
Compliance Assurance Manager at AXA PhilippinesGerlyn is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) certifications and is currently in private practice. She has over ten years of experience in auditing (compliance and internal audit and tax reviews). She started her teaching profession alongside her private practice.
Currently, Gerlyn is the Compliance Assurance Manager in the Compliance department of AXA Philippines (AXA) reporting directly to the Chief Compliance Officer. She handles compliance reviews of business processes with direct impact with the company’s regulatory and compliance risks. AXA is one of the largest and fastest growing life insurance companies in the country, headquartered in Paris, and active across all five continents in 64 countries. AXA offers financial security to more than 800,000 individuals through various group and individual life insurance products.
Gerlyn was also a college professor and part of the CPA review team of Baliuag University, the first and only autonomous private university in Bulacan. As a college professor, she handles classes of Accountancy and Business Administration students, teaching various business related subjects, to include among others, Income and Business Taxation, Advanced Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Managerial Finance. In the CPA review, her usual assignments are Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting (AFAR) and Regulatory Framework for Business Transactions (RFBT), helping graduating students prepare for the CPA licensure examination.
Gerlyn’s professional career started in P&A Grant Thornton, formerly Punongbayan & Araullo. She was assigned in the Tax Compliance Division as a Tax Auditor and after almost two years promoted to Senior Tax Auditor. As a tax auditor, she was assigned engagements including tax compliance reviews, tax outsourcing, tax studies and tax assessments.
She also worked in East-West Seed Company as a Senior Internal Auditor.
Gerlyn is an Academic Scholar and a consistent Dean’s Lister graduating Magna Cum Laude from Baliuag University. She garnered an average grade of 93.86% on her CPA licensure examination placing 11th overall. She also took the 3-part CIA examination in one seating.
Paul Ryan Balon, CPA, CIA, CISA, CMA, AFA
Chief Audit Executive at Makati Development CorporationPaul currently works as the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) of Makati Development Corporation (MDC), the construction arm of Ayala Land, Inc. subsidiary. Previously, he was the Internal Audit Manager of Alphaland Corporation, a Property Development Company which is also engaged in club and resort operations, condominium and property leasing and management. Concurrently, he also managed the audit activities for Philweb Corporation, a publicly-listed gaming company and Atok-Big Wedge, a publicly-listed mining company. As the audit manager, he was tasked to conduct financial, operational and compliance audits and consulting activities to its auditable entities.
He also held the Lead Consultant position in Advisory Services (formerly Business Risks Services) of Punongbayan & Araullo - Grant Thornton Philippines.
Paul has more than eleven (17) years of experience in conducting various assurance and advisory works involving financial, operational, IT and fraud/investigations in the field of real estate, construction, tobacco, security services, online gaming, non-profit organizations, among others.
Paul is also an experience in Finance (financial reporting, payables management, budgeting, billing and collection, etc.)
He graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, San Beda College - Mendiola, Manila, Academic Distinction, and a Deloitte Awardee of Academic Excellence.
Joseph Arlan Fajardo, CPA, CIA, CISA
Director of Tao CorporationJoseph is both a CPA, CIA and CISA with more than 20 years of experience in the field of Internal Auditing, Quality Assurance, Management and Tax Advisory, and the Academe.
Currently, he is the Director for Corporate Planning of Tao Corporation, a leading supply-chain services company, one of the top 500 companies in the industry, and top 100 companies in the Philippines in terms of consolidated revenue and President of I Can Capital Lending, Inc. He is responsible for facilitating the establishment of risk management process in Tao community of companies and for enhancing the implementation of risk-based internal audit approach. In his short stint with the Tao Corporations he has facilitated the establishment of risk management framework and initial risk management in TriDharma Marketing Corporation which one of the top earning subsidiaries of Tao Corporation. Before moving to his current company, he was the Internal Audit Manager, (Department Head) of East-West Seed Company, Inc. (EWSCI), the leader in tropical vegetables seed in Southeast Asia with sister companies in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, South Africa, China, and Myanmar. He was responsible for the establishment of the first Internal Audit Function in the Group. He also introduced Enterprise Risk Management in the company facilitating the first risk assessment exercise by the Board of Management (BOM) and the first risk management workshop by the functional managers. He reports functionally to the President and administratively to the Country General Manager. He also performs internal audit reviews of East-West Seed International, East-West Regional Operating Headquarters, East-West Thailand and Hortigenetics Reearch SE Asia.
He is also a CPA review lecturer in the Baliuag University teaching Management Advisory Services and Theory of Accounts. He also teaches in the Baliuag University College of Business Administration and Accountancy on the subject of Managerial Accounting, Management Consultancy, Managerial Finance, Advance Accounting 2 and Tax Planning, among others. Baluiag University is the first and only autonomous private university in Bulacan.
His past professional work experiences included his being an Internal Audit Head of Sports and Gaming Entertainment (SAGE), an on-line gaming company. He also had a stint in AMA Education System as Internal Audit Supervisor.
He also worked in Asahi Allglass (Asia) Pte. Ltd., Singapore as Quality Assurance Supervisor cum Assistant Management Representative. Among his responsibilities is to assist the QA Manager cum Management representative in overseeing the consistent daily operations of the Quality Management System, preparation for the ISO:9000 -9003 Certification and the Australian Product Certification, among others. Notable among his achievements is the general review and revision of the Quality Assurance Manual of the company and he authored the 3-point quality check which was adopted as part of the standard quality procedures.
He also worked in RBL Fishing Corporation as an Internal Audit Staff.
Joseph is an active member of IIA Philippines as former Chair of Marketing Committee and Professional Development – IIA-P and resource speaker for public run and in-house seminars.
Heindritz Concepcion, CPA, CIA
Senior Manager at Johnson & Johnson International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Dritz is a seasoned manager with twenty-one (21) years of combined experience in internal and external financial audits, compliance, finance, accounting and business management.
He has extensive experience in managing numerous audit engagements in Asia Pacific countries such as Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Australia and India; and as a Healthcare Compliance Officer in the Philippines and Vietnam with his current role as Regional Senior Manager in Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
Prior to J&J, he was involved in managing financial and operations audits of companies from different industries such as pharmaceutical, consumer goods, medical devices, banking, finance, manufacturing and service with his role as manager in Punongbayan & Araullo. He was the Audit Head of San Miguel Packaging (SMC) and led internal control audits. He was also based in Jakarta, Indonesia while with SMC and at Singapore while with Chevron.
Dritz holds local and international certifications as a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional and Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt. He graduated with distinction from De La Salle University Manila (DLSU) MBA program, he is also a Professional Lecturer at DLSU handling courses in MBA and Accountancy Department.