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Leading Compliance Experts & Specialists
The Compliance Authority strives to deliver vendor-neutral insights, perspectives, and best practices
in the compliance management marketspace.
We are assembling a group of leading experts and practitioners in the field:
Sanjay Anand is chairman of the SOX Institute
and is known as a global expert on Corporate Governance and Regulatory
Compliance with 20 years of deep experience as a strategic advisor, certified
consultant, professional speaker and published author in Business Process
Management, Project Risk Management, Business and Technology Audits, and
Enterprise Technologies. He has been personally involved in scores of
business and technology audits and over a hundred workshops and training
sessions in the past decade. His clients include over a hundred companies,
many of them Fortune 100 and Global 2000, from over a dozen different
industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, distribution
and utilities, across Asia, Europe and the Americas. He is the recipient
of such awards as the J.D. Edwards Worldwide Consultant of the Year, Northeast
Area Special Achievement, Global Enterprise Solutions Outstanding Performance,
and Client Services Valuable Teamwork. He is often referred to as the
"Consultant's Consultant" for his training, leadership and mentoring skills.
Sanjay is also the author of numerous articles for such magazines as Data
Quest and Information Week, and of books like "The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide
for Finance and Information Technology Professionals" (John Wiley) and
"Implementing J.D. Edwards: Beginner's Guide" (McGraw-Hill). He is also
a Founding Member of the NASBA (National Association of State Boards of
Accountancy) Centre for Public Trust and a thought leader on The Advisory
Council (TAC), the CXO Council, and the Private Sector Advisory Group
(PSAG). Sanjay is also a member of the CEO Roundtable of the SOX Compliance
Journal.
Robert Ayoub is an Industry Manger with the Frost &
Sullivan North America Information and Communication Technologies
Practice. He focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies
and market behavior in the Network Security Markets Worldwide. Since joining
Frost & Sullivan in June, 2005, Mr. Ayoub has completed several research
studies and consulting projects on Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention
Systems (IDS/IPS), Security Event Correlations (SIM, SEM, etc) systems,
IT Policy and Compliance, Video Conferencing Security and Network Access
Control systems. Mr. Ayoub has received acclaim for his research through
articles and quotes published in SC Magazine, Newsfactor, Processor and
many others. He is an active member in the security community, serving
on the board of the Alamo ISSA chapter and the Texas Regional Information
Security Conference (TRISC). Mr. Ayoub teaches courses at the University
of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX.
Victor N. Berlin, Ph.D., is the founding president of the University
of Fairfax. At Anteon Corporation, Dr. Berlin launched and directed
the Center for IT Education where he forged academic alliances with established
graduate and undergraduate institutions. Dr. Berlin served as founding
president of Potomac College, which became accredited under his guidance.
He has held management positions at NIST and Anteon Corporation and served
on the faculties at Boston College and Keller Graduate School of Management.
Dr. Berlin earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science
at Northwestern University and his B.A. from Cornell University.
Dorian Cougias is the founder and Lead Analyst of Network Frontiers, a company that focuses on systems continuity, regulatory compliance, and IT infrastructure consulting, training, and publishing. Over the last fourteen years, Dorian has overseen the establishment, sale, and re-launch of Network Frontiers, has served as CIO of two of the leading Ad Agencies in the world, and has served as CEO of an international software company. He has written and spoken extensively on all matters of information technology, has become a leading expert witness, and has won numerous writing and speaking awards.
He is also an Adjunct Professor of Technology, lecturing and serving on the board of advisers for the University of Delaware; College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy. He also serves as an adviser, research fellow, or working group member to the Financial Technology Forum, IT Compliance Institute, NetFocus, Hospitality Law, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals. He has authored hundreds of articles and dozens of books.
As the primary architect of the Unified Compliance Framework, Dorian and his research partner, Marcelo Halpern of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, have created the first independent initiative to exclusively support IT compliance management.
Dr. David Taylor, CISSP, formed the PCI Alliance December 2006 as a vehicle
to help map the PCI security standards for the security and privacy market sectors
in order to improve the clarity and process of selecting PCI related solutions.
Currently, there are nearly 50 members in this group.
In late 2007, Dave created the PCI Alliance's Research Program and launched the PCI Knowledge Base, as a
searchable, interactive research community to improve the sharing of information about PCI Compliance among
merchants, PCI assessors, banks, service providers and IT vendors.
Prior to launching the PCI Alliance Research Program and the PCI Knowledge Base,
Dave created and was the VP of Data Security Strategies for software vendor
Protegrity. In addition to providing PCI compliance consulting to Level 1 and
2 merchants, Dave was VP of Corporate Development.
Before joining Protegrity, Dave co-founded and was Chief Research Officer of The Info Pro, an IT research
firm in New York City. Prior to TIP, Dave spent 14 years with Gartner, where he was Group VP, and where he
created and managed Gartner's Applications Group and Electronic Commerce Strategies service. Prior to Gartner,
Dave was a group product manager and software development manager at AT&T and Bell Labs.
Dave holds a CISSP credential and has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from
Purdue University and an MBA from NY University. Dave co-authored the book Doing
E-Business, published by John Wiley & Sons in December 2000.
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