Alan Siegfried

SUMMARY

Alan has over 40 years of experience serving on boards and audit committees and in internal audit and risk management leadership roles for international organizations and financial institutions in both the public and private sector. He has expertise in enterprise risk management (ERM), strategy, business processes, internal controls, IT auditing, compliance, operations, and customer service, and has traveled extensively throughout the world (30-plus countries) to lead projects, present at conferences, and serve on boards and committees.

Alan serves in RKA’s Advisory Board as Non-Executive Chairman and is responsible for firm and executive governance; oversight of the Executive Office and of the firm’s President and CEO; as well as oversight of its four regional Board of Advisors Chairs for North America, Latin America, Brazil, and EMEA.

Previously, he was the firm’s Executive Chairman and concurrently served in a client service role as Global Head and Practice Leader of the Risk Management and Internal Audit Services practice. With a global footprint in nine countries and working out of three global hubs – North America, Latin America and EMEA – our firm luminaries, consultants, and associates, are sought after experts in forensic investigation, risk management, and compliance advisory services.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

He is a seasoned board and audit committee member, chief audit executive, and enterprise risk management (ERM) professional and has served as partner to the Big Four firms of Deloitte LLP and EY LLP. Alan has also served in the public sector for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Inspector General. He has served as part of the senior management team in multiple financial institutions. As Auditor General for Inter-American Development Bank (the oldest and largest regional multi-lateral development bank with 48 member countries, 2,000-plus staff members, and a market cap of nearly $170 billion), he completely restructured and reengineered the internal audit function to become a world class function which received the highest possible external quality assurance evaluation.

Alan’s astute strategic, leadership and analytical competencies enable him to successfully develop strategic relationships, build and lead audit teams, and effectively communicate internal audit strategies to chief executives and board members. He has published numerous articles for professional journals and has served as an audit committee and board member to such organizations as the MidAtlantic Farm Credit-ACA, Horizon Farm Credit-ACA, United Nations (UN) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and Bon Secours Health System, Inc.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• University of Maryland, Smith School of Business, Assistant Academic Director and Adjunct Professor for 20 years
• Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union, Director of Internal Audit
• Inter-American Development Bank, Auditor General
• Grant Thornton LLP, Partner
• Ernst & Young LLP, Partner
• Deloitte LLP, Director
• First Maryland Bancorp, Senior Vice President and General Auditor
• US General Services Administration, Information Systems Audit Program Director
• Government Accountability Office (GAO), Auditor and Supervisory Auditor

UNIVERSITY AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Alan was the Assistant Academic Director for Internal Auditing in the Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) Program at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, where he also served as an adjunct professor of graduate internal audit, information systems audit, and ERM courses. He has also taught both graduate and undergraduate courses at several other universities in the U.S. and abroad.

Additionally, Alan has presented and lectured at conferences and seminars, both internationally and domestically, on such topics as: internal audit, risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, information systems auditing and computer security.