Speakers
Michael E. Brodsky, Deloitte
Mr. Brodsky has over thirty years’ experience providing forensic accounting, investigative, auditing, risk management and regulatory compliance consulting services. Mike is a Certified Public Accountant and currently works in Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Fraud Risk Center where he assists our audit clients in evaluating the risk of fraud in financial statement audits. He also provides guidance to our audit teams when our audit clients conduct internal investigations or have Special Committees of their Boards conduct independent investigations where he evaluates the completeness and objectivity of third-party investigations conducted on Deloitte & Touche LLP’s audit clients.
Previously, Mike spent 16 years with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP where he was the leader of Deloitte Advisory’s financial services industry’s fraud and forensics practice. In that role, he performed investigative, forensic, and regulatory compliance projects. Mike was also the leader of our financial services fraud risk assessment service offering.
Mike also participated in investigative and operational/compliance projects as well as regulatory investigations. Mr. Brodsky has investigated accounting irregularities resulting from Ponzi schemes, asset misappropriations involving money transfers and wire fraud, financial statement fraud, use of derivative securities and potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
He has written, presented, and spoken on fraud, corruption and other risk and regulatory matters impacting the financial services, energy & resources, consumer products and professional and intercollegiate athletics industries.
Mr. Brodsky has also written, spoken, and been quoted in the media on topics relating to fraud and financial crime, and its impact on businesses profits and reputation. He has taught undergraduate accounting at the Girard School of Business at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA.
Mike is a 1993 graduate of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University with a degree Business Administration (concentrations in accounting and finance). He is currently pursuing his Master of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana.
He lives in Danvers, MA with his wife and two college aged daughters.
Dr. D. Larry Crumbley
Dr. D. Larry Crumbley teaches on the RELLIS Campus. Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi - RELLIS Campus, College Station, Texas; Emeritus Professor, Louisiana State University; helped create and was editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting from 1999 to 2008; Editor over 40 years of the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly. He has written more than 325 articles including 7 in the Accounting Review, and 65 books, including 13 educational novels. He was named as one of the only 24 Pioneers of the Profession in their Industry Titans Financial Consultants by NACVA in 2016; AAA Forensic Accounting Section Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015; Distinguished Contribution to the Development of Forensic Accounting, April 2018, University of Toronto; the 2010 Federation of Business Disciplines Outstanding Educator Award; and the Society of Louisiana CPA Lifetime Achievement in Accounting Education Award in 2007. He founded both the American Taxation Association and Forensic Accounting Sections of the American Accounting Association, served as President for 4 American Accounting Association sections, and has serve on the AAA council for 5 years. He has spoken, taught, or visited more than 140 countries.