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Specializes in auditing matters
relating to public companies and leads many of the Commission’s
activities with respect to its oversight role over the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board. Monitors the development of
auditing standards; consults with registrants, audit committee
members, and auditors on independence matters; and participates in
the development of staff guidance and rule proposals.
Former senior
manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP. Performed audits of public and private companies of varying
size primarily specializing in the consumer and industrial products
industry.
B.B.A. in Accounting
University of Massachusetts
at Amherst
CPA and
Member, AICPA
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Sharon Virag, CPA,
is an Associate Chief Auditor for the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (PCAOB) in Washington, DC. Her principal
responsibility is to work with the PCAOB's Chief Auditor and his
staff in advising the PCAOB board members on the establishment
of auditing and related professional practice standards
applicable to audits of public companies in the United States.
In this role, Ms. Virag focuses primarily on the Board's
internal control-related standards, including the amendment to
Auditing Standard No. 2.
Prior to joining the
PCAOB in January 2005, Ms. Virag was with Deloitte & Touche, LLP,
specializing in audits of public companies within a wide range
of industries. She also has several years of private industry
experience focused in international internal audit and risk
management. She holds a degree in accounting from California
State University and is a certified public accountant in the
state of Arizona.
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Director of the Financial
Compliance Group at Microsoft, which includes the SOX PMO
responsibility; SOX compliance and other financial compliance
programs, such as an automated segregation of duties analysis
and management of all audit and SOX testing issues.
The FCG reports to the
Controller’s organization and supports a decentralized
compliance organization world-wide.
Active in a benchmarking group
of technology companies and has spoken at a number of industry
conferences focused on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
Started career with Deloitte &
Touche in Seattle and has held many financial and operational
leadership positions in the financial services industry as well
as in a number of start-up companies. |
Co-Chair of the Firm’s Securities
Practice and a
member of the Firm’s Business Services and Transactions
Committee.
Chairs the Firm’s Auditor
Letter Review Committee, and has served on the
Firm’s Management Committee.
Represented private and publicly-held concerns headquartered
in the United States and abroad.
Past Chair, Securities Law
Committee of the Chicago
Bar Association.
Serves on American Bar Association’s Federal Regulation
of Securities SubCommittees on Disclosure and Continuous
Reporting and Proxy
Statements and Business Combinations; Executive
Committee of the Northwestern University School of Law Annual
Ray Garrett
Corporate and Securities Law Institute; and on the Illinois
Secretary of State
Business Organizations Act Advisory Committee.
J.D. degree, cum laude,
M.B.A., and B.S. Indiana University. |
Paul has headed Reuters SOX s404
compliance programme since 2004, managing the global programme
based in London. Reuters were early adopters of the
‘top-down, risk-based’ approach to SOX and successfully attested
for their annual report for the year ending December 2006.
Paul Joined Reuters in 1985 and
has held a variety of IT, Project and Operational positions over
this time, including a 3-year assignment managing Reuters
development group in Toronto and as COO of Lipper, a Reuters
subsidiary specializing in Fund Management information.
Prior to joining Reuters, Paul
worked for the London Stock Exchange as a programmer working on
information systems supporting the introduction of the ‘Big
Bang’.
Paul has a degree in Accounting
and Computing from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
For more information about Dr. Paul Goddard and Reuters please
visit:
http://www.reuters.com
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