The Nominating Committee is pleased to present the following slate of Officers Elects for the 2010-2011 chapter year, who will serve in the 2011- 2012 Chapter year.  The "Elect" slate will be considered at the May 2010 Meeting.    PROXY Voting has now closed. Please attend the May meeting to vote.

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2010-2011 VP Academic Relations (to be elected) - Kevin Stadler

Kevin Stadler, CPA, is the Assistant Vice President of Internal Audit at Archstone, which he assisted in establishing in 2002.  Archstone is engaged in the operation, development, redevelopment, acquisition, and long-term ownership of apartment communities throughout the United States and Germany.

At Archstone, Kevin has responsibilities that include corporate operational and financial auditing, investigations, Sarbanes-Oxley assessment and community compliance reviews.  Prior to joining Archstone, Kevin performed audit activities for KB Home and Arthur Andersen LLP.  Kevin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).  He is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trust-Internal Audit Forum and the Institute of Internal Auditors.  Kevin has held several leadership positions within the local chapter of the IIA, currently serving as the VP of Academic Relations.

2011-2012 President Elect (to be elected) – Tony Redlinger

Tony Redlinger, CIA, CISA, CISS, has been an internal audit practitioner for more than 14 years, including the last six years as an Audit Project Manager at CoBank where his responsibilities have included management of the IT audit function and the internal audit quality program.  He has been a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors since 1996 and served twice as president of the Heartland-Iowa Chapter, which was awarded by the IIA during his tenure for its academic relations program.  He was also active in the Santa Fe Chapter prior to joining the Denver Chapter in 2004, where he served on the Board of Governors from 2005-2008.  Tony has given presentations on topics such as risk-based auditing, ACL, information security, and auditing projects to local IIA, IMA, and PMI chapters.  He was also an instructor for the most recent CIA review course offered by the Denver Chapter.

Tony began his auditing career in with the AEGON Insurance Group and also worked as an Audit Project Leader at the Los Alamos National Laboratory prior to joining CoBank.  Before becoming an internal auditor, he worked in insurance and financial services.  Tony received his BBA and MBA from the University of Iowa and is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Information Systems Security Professional. 

2011-2012 Secretary Elect (to be elected ) – Josh Kettler

Joshua Kettler, Director, Risk Management, RSM McGladrey, Inc. has over eight years of consulting experience in both the corporate finance and public accounting settings.  In his current role, he has been responsible for serving as the project manager on numerous internal audit outsourcing and Sarbanes-Oxley consulting engagements, primarily in the financial services and manufacturing industries.  On these engagements his duties included project scoping and budgeting, the development of process documentation and testing plans, and performing the review of staff work products.  Over the past year, Joshua has also been a member of a national committee within the firm responsible for developing standardized templates and control libraries used as part of RSM McGladrey's risk management methodology.  Prior to joining RSM McGladrey, Joshua served as Senior Accountant-in-Charge for one of the Big 4 firms specializing in engagement team supervision on several financial audit and consulting projects.  In addition, he has assisted many clients with the implementation of new audit methodologies. His previous experience includes serving clients in wide variety of industries such as energy, transportation, manufacturing, retail management, software sales, construction/engineering, and banking.

2011-2012 Treasurer Elect (to be elected) – Steve Stanton

Steve Stanton, CPA, CIA, CFE, is the Manager of Internal Audit at SourceGas, LLC.  Steve graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a BSBA in Accounting.   Steve is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Fraud Examiner.   Steve has over 25 years of experience in public utilities and 11 years of Internal Audit experience.  Steve has held the Treasurer position on multiple Boards.

2011-2012 VP Education Elect (to be elected) – Marie McGillivray

Marie McGillivray is a Manager in the Protiviti Denver office with over 6 years of internal audit experience across several industries.  Within these industries, Marie has completed compliance, financial and operational audits, in internal audit out-sourcing and co-sourcing arrangements.  As all of these audits were performed as an employee of Protiviti, Marie completed the audits consistent with the IIA’s International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.

Marie is also an active member of the Denver IIA Chapter and has been on the Chapter’s Education Committee for the past 4 years (she served as the VP of Education in the ’09 - ‘10 fiscal year.

2011-2012 VP Communications Elect (to be elected) – Connie Spinelli

Before becoming a Senior Manager for the Risk Advisory Services group at EKS&H in 2007, Connie consulted for the Enterprise Risk Services department of a Big 4 firm, assisting with the implementation of the newly enacted Sarbanes Oxley Section 404, and served as the Director of Internal Control and Compliance for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).  Connie is part of the technical team that develops internal control and IT auditing instructional materials for EKS&H in compliance with the requirements of the NASB, and has been a local instructor for the Certified Internal Audit (CIA) exam.  With her compliance and financial systems knowledge and internal and external audit experience, Connie currently performs SAS70 audits, and 404 , fraud risk and ERM advisory services for EKS&H.

Connie is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Institute of Management accountants, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.   Connie serves as the treasurer of a non-profit organization, Focus Points Family Resources.

2011-2012 VP Member Services Elect (to be elected) – Adam Klitzke

Adam Klitzke, CPA, has approximately 8 years of accounting and auditing experience working with development stage and global companies in a wide range of industries including oil and gas, technology, real estate, mining, consumer products, manufacturing. Adam is currently a Managing Director at Emerson Search LLC, an executive search firm specializing in the field of accounting and finance. Interfacing as the main point of contact with his clients, Adam’s position requires him to understand the business mission, culture, risk, and the importance of all resources. He partners with clients to strategically find them their most important assets, employees.

Prior to this, Adam was a Director of Financial Recruiting at Peak Search Group, an Executive Recruiter with a global executive search firm and was a Senior Associate in the Assurance and Advisory practice at KPMG LLP in Chicago, IL and Denver, CO.   Adam received a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Bradley University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA).  He has been a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors since 2006, Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants since 2005, and COPAS – Colorado since 2007.

2011-2012 VP Academic Relations Elect (to be elected) - Yolanda Lyons

Yolanda Lyons, CIA, is the Director of Internal Audit at Colorado College. She has several years of auditing experience, both internal and external.  Prior to beginning her work in higher education, Yolanda was an internal auditor in the banking industry and an external auditor with Price Waterhouse, currently PricewaterhouseCoopers. In these positions, Yolanda  performed and managed compliance, financial and operational audits. She has also designed and implemented the Sarbanes-Oxley initiative for an organization who voluntarily complies with SOX.

Yolanda is a Certified Internal Auditor and received her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and her MBA from the University of Denver.  She is a member of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Denver Chapter, Information Systems Audit and Control Systems (ISACA), and the Association of College and University Auditors (ACUA). Currently she is in her fifth year serving as the chapter’s Certification Chair and has also served as the Vice President of Member Services.  She recently accepted the position of Best Practices Chair for ACUA. She is active in the Junior League of Colorado Springs, the Alliance  Francaise de Denver, and serves as the Chair for the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee (Colorado Springs).