Fraud Summit – 2022

Whistleblower, Investigative Columnist To Headline 2021 Fraud Summit

The Center for Internal Auditing Excellence at the Naveen Jindal School of Management hosted its annual premier event, the Fraud Summit, online for the third straight year due to the pandemic.

This year’s event featured the return of Dr. Mark Nigrini as both a keynote speaker and a workshop speaker. Professor, Author, Acclaimed Authority on Benford’s Law. Nigrini is the 2020 author of “Dusting Your Data for Fraud’s Fingerprints” in the December 2020 Fraud Magazine. In 2014, Nigrini published a Lawler award winning article in the Journal of Accountancy that was co-authored with Nathan Mueller, a fraudster, who at the time was incarcerated in a federal prison. Nigrini’s work has been featured in The Financial Times, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also an associate professor of accounting at West Virginia University and author of “Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Applications” and “Benford’s Law: Applications for Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Fraud Detection.”

The Fraud Summit also featured Sanya and Steve Morang as workshop and keynote speakers. They focused on the seduction of fraud, with a particular emphasis on fraud and espionage. With over 20 years of experience in the anti-fraud profession, Steve has an extensive knowledge of fraud, ethics and compliance.

He is the former President of the San Francisco Chapter of the ACFE, the author of Big Frauds Column of Fraud Magazine and is an Adjunct Professor in Fraud Examination and Ethics at Golden Gate University. Steve also leads the Fraud & Forensics Practice at a leading CPA firm in the Bay Area. Sanya is an expert on human nature and behavior. She is the founder of The Seduction of Fraud and is the Director of Honey Badger Consulting. She is an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University and holds a bachelor’s degree from Webster University, Vienna, Austria. Her background also includes extensive experience in both marketing and psychology.

For information on attending the summit, please contact joseph.mauriello@utdallas.edu.