Featured Speaker

Mr. James Carroll

Jim Carroll is a Manager in BDO’s Pittsburgh Office. He has significant experience in fraud and forensic auditing/investigations, ethics and compliance reviews, fraud risk assessments, and the development and implementation of internal fraud audit/investigation units. Mr. Carroll previously spent 10 years in the Internal Audit Investigations team at a Fortune 200 manufacturing company, of which he managed the group for five and implemented numerous process effectiveness and efficiency measures. The matters investigated covered areas such as damage calculations and recoveries from fraudulent billing schemes, employee misconduct, and highly sensitive senior/executive level employee investigations. His prior experience includes positions at large international companies in the life sciences and financial services sectors providing internal investigation, internal audit, and financial reporting control services. Mr. Carroll concentrates in the areas of forensics, compliance, and investigations, including: regulatory compliance, forensic accounting, internal and external fraud audits/investigations, and commercial and economic damages. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Institute of Internal Auditors EDUCATION M.S., Fraud and Forensics, Carlow University Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination Certificate, West Virginia University M.B.A., Clarion University of Pennsylvania B.S., Accounting, Gannon University