Speakers
Christine BotosanChristine Botosan is the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethical Financial Reporting and Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has published over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Accounting Horizons. Christine is the recipient of several AAA awards for research excellence, including the Competitive Manuscript Award, the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award and the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award.
Christine is AAA Past President (2014-2015) and has served on the AAA Board as Director - Focusing on Intellectual Property (2011-13), the Chair of the Publications Committee, a member of the Intellectual Property Task Force II, and a member of the Sharpening Our Vision Task Force. She has served as President and Treasurer of FARS, and has been a member of the AAA Governance Review Task Force (2009-11), the Finance Committee (2007-08), and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Committee as a member (2002-04), as Chair (2004-05) and is currently the Board of Director Liaison. Christine has twenty-five years experience teaching financial accounting and has received five awards for teaching excellence.
Matt Bosseler
Matt is a Director in PwC’s Risk and Compliance Systems and Analytics (“RCSA”) practice and the Washington Metro RCSA Market Leader; Matt rejoined PwC in December, 2013. He has provided services and analytical support to a broad range of operations including: Internal Audit, Financial Transformation, Financial Audit, Fraud Investigations, Risk & Controls, and Human Capital Management using tools such as ACL, Tableau, Monarch, Excel, and Access. Matt’s previous experience includes other “Big 4” and industry experience. In addition, Matt serves as President of the Board of Directors for a local non-profit organization whose primary objective is to provide services to low income residents of Fairfax County.
Elise Brouillette
Elise is a manager in PwC’s Risk and Compliance Systems and Analytics (RCSA) practice and joined the Firm in 2007. She has extensive experience in providing both external and internal auditing services to a diverse portfolio of clients and currently leads data auditing and audit transformation efforts in the Washington Metro market. Elise is the RCSA recruiting champion for the University of Maryland and a local champion for various data piloting efforts. She is a member of the AICPA, MACPA, and IIA, and was recently recognized as an “Emerging Leader” within the MACPA’s 2014 Women to Watch program.
Aaron Seres
Aaron J. Seres is currently a Special Agent in the FBI’s Charlotte Division with investigative responsibility over financial crimes in the Western District of North Carolina. Prior to this position, Mr. Seres was the Chief of the FBI's Economic Crimes Unit at FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., where he was responsible for the national program management of the FBI's Corporate, Securities, Commodities, Insurance, Mass Marketing, and Mail/Wire Fraud programs (in total these include over 3,500 active cases and 400 agents), in addition to management responsibility for the FBI's Special Agent Accountant Program and the FBI's document management and analysis system. During his tenure as Chief, Mr. Seres instituted several new initiatives that greatly advanced the FBI’s efforts against Corporate and Securities Fraud such as the embedding of agents for the first time with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the push to prioritize and aggressively address Insider Trading. Mr. Seres led the Corporate and Securities Fraud programs throughout the recent financial crisis and under his leadership, the FBI achieved the most charges and convictions in these crime areas in FBI history to date in FY 2011. Some of the highlight cases during Mr. Seres’ tenure as Chief of Economic Crimes included Galleon Group- Raj Rajaratnam (insider trading), Colonial Bank/Taylor Bean & Whitaker- Lee Farkas ($3 billion accounting fraud), and Robert Stanford ($8 billion Ponzi scheme). Prior to the Chief position, Mr. Seres was a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) assigned to FBI Headquarters in the Criminal investigative Division, Financial Crimes Section, Economic Crimes Unit, where he was responsible for the national management of the FBI's Corporate Fraud Program in addition to management responsibilities for all Economic Crimes programs throughout the Southeastern FBI field offices. Prior to coming to Washington D.C., Mr. Seres was with the FBI’s Cleveland Division where he began his FBI career investigating white collar crime matters such as Public Corruption, Securities Fraud, Corporate Fraud, Bank Fraud, Government Fraud and Anti-Trust. Prior to his FBI career, Mr. Seres was a Derivatives Financial Analyst for Wachovia Bank and an Auditor for Ernst and Young. Mr. Seres has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York obtained in 1999; and a MBA from Canisius College obtained in 2000. Mr. Seres is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina.
Weston Smith
Weston Smith began his career as a CPA with Ernst & Young, specializing in audit and healthcare consulting. He was hired by Healthsouth during it’s infancy, and ultimately became CFO of the company with over 2,000 locations in all 50 states and five countries. However, underneath the persona of success, Mr. Smith was a participant in a financial statement fraud that ran for over 15 years, with an earnings overstatement of over Three Billion dollars. Weston eventually voluntarily exposed the fraud, and accepted the consequences of his former actions.
Today, in addition to working as an accountant for small businesses, Mr. Smith is a guest lecturer with an emphasis on fraud prevention and ethical conduct. He has been published in Issues in Accounting Education, and has spoken at over 50 universities and numerous professional groups across the country and internationally. He has also appeared on CNBC, Fox Business Network, and other media outlets.