Ideagen Internal Audit & Risk Summit 2023

Jami Shine, CIA, CISA, CRISC, CRMA, graduated summa cum laude from the Honors Program at Oral Roberts University and has 16 years of combined internal and external audit experience. She is the Corporate and IT Audit Manager for QuikTrip Corporation, where she manages operational, IT, and financial audits and consulting engagements. She also co-facilitates the Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) program and conducts the annual risk assessment process with the CAE.

Jami enjoys being a facilitator for the IIA, leading both online and in-person trainings, as well as being a recurring speaker at the IIA’s Leadership Academy, IIA and ISACA chapters, MISTI’s SuperStrategies and Audit World Conferences, and the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance. She has served as the conference emcee for the IIA and ISACA’s GRC conference and the IIA’s Ignite Conference in addition to moderating and speaking on multiple panels. She served on the IIA’s North American Chapter Relations Committee from 2018 – 2022 and was appointed to the global Institute Relations Committee in 2022. In 2022, she was honored with an Internal Audit Beacon Award for thought leadership in the profession. She has had multiple articles published in Internal Auditor magazine and loves any chance to share her passion for risk management and internal audit.

Jack Berends is a Product Manager in the Audit, Risk and Compliance pillar of Ideagen. He joined us in November 2022 after several years in Operations and Product Management. He is very excited to have joined Ideagen during such an innovative time for the business.

Stephanie is a Certified Internal Auditor and worked for 12 years managing audits across various industries, specializing in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and audit software management.  She joined Ideagen in 2012 through the Pentana acquisition and managed the North America implementations for Internal Audit customers.  In 2018, she became the Product Manager for Internal Audit and Risk at Ideagen, and currently manages the strategic roadmap and initiatives.  Stephanie recently completed serving in her final year as the elected position of District Advisor for the Midwest Region of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). In this role, she was the liaison between 24 North America IIA Chapters and IIA Headquarters. She previously served as District Representative for 5 IIA Chapters, and as President, VP-Programs, and VP-Services of the Kansas City Chapter.

David joined Ideagen in 2016 from their acquisition of Covalent where he was a software developer, though his career started at CERN in Switzerland in 2000. In 2013 he gave up coding to focus more on requirements, design, and business analysis. Since 2018 he has been Product Owner for Ideagen's risk and audit solutions, including Pentana Audit, Pentana Risk, and Pentana Disclose.

Michael currently serves as VP of Ideagen’s Audit and Risk business line. Prior to joining Ideagen he was a founding member of Audit Analytics and served as its Chief Operating Officer until 2018 and then as CEO until Audit Analytics’ acquisition by Ideagen in 2021. Michael spent most of his career designing data products and solutions used by all of the top ten global accounting firms. He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.