Mike Cabatuando, CIA, CCSA, CPA, CRMA, MBA, CICA, CrFA, CIPP/E
Johnson and Johnson International Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Mike is the Director of Global Privacy supporting Innovative Medicine ASPAC/GS and appointed Data Protection Officer (DPO) for Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam 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 Japan.
Prior to J&J, Mike was Senior Internal Audit Manager of SYNNEX, the parent company of Concentrix where he worked on global Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit engagements in North America, Europe and China locations. Mike has extensive audit career in business outsourcing industry. He was a Risk Manager at the PeopleSupport Inc. and a project team leader for the SOX compliance audit 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), Institute of Internal Controls Asia, and Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants.
Mike has more than 20 years of experience in the field of internal and external audit, data privacy, cybersecurity, 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, Sarbanes Oxley Act, IFRS, KYC, NIST, FCPA and COBIT.
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.