Welcome to the IIA Detroit Chapter!

Welcome to the IIA Detroit Chapter

The Detroit Chapter of the IIA serves the internal audit community of the Metro-Detroit area of Southeast Michigan.

Established in 1941, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is an international professional association with global headquarters in Lake Mary, Florida, USA. The IIA is the internal audit profession's global voice, recognized authority, acknowledged leader, chief advocate, and principal educator. Generally, members work in internal auditing, risk management, governance, internal control, information technology audit, education, and security.

Globally, The IIA has more than 200,000 members. The IIA in North America comprises 159 chapters serving more than 70,000 members in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean (Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Turks & Caicos), Bermuda, Guyana, and Trinidad & Tobago. Members enjoy benefits offered by the North American Service Center including local, national, and global professional networking; world-class training; certification; standards and guidance; research; executive development; career opportunities; and more. Internal auditors throughout North America enjoy free members-only webinars and national conferences such as the General Audit Management Conference, the Governance, Risk, and Control (GRC) Conference, and the All Star Conference. The IIA’s Audit Executive Center provides chief audit executives relevant and timely thought leadership and connections to peers for benchmarking and sharing best practices. And resources such as IIA Quality Services make The Institute an indispensable partner to you and your organization.

Chapter Officers

Board of Governors

• Kamilla Williams, CRMA, MBA - 1st Past President
• Sharon Gipson, CPA
• Rick Lowe, CIA, CPA, CISA
• Joe Miko, CIA, CISA
• Karen Muglia, CICA – 3rd Past President
• John Pagac, CPA
• Sajay Rai, CPA, CISSP, CISM
• Brian Smith, CIA, CPA
• Jason Thomas, CIA
• Laurie Eissler, CPA, CIA, MBA
• Mike Peters, CIA, CPA, CISA, CRMA

Administrative Roles

• Richard Cozart, Website & Newsletter
• Amber Dunn-Egerer, Administrator

IIA Rock Star of the Month:

The IIA Rock Star award recognizes a member who is early within their Auditing career or new to an internal audit role and who demonstrates any the following:     

• Is an Innovative, Inspiring and Awesome Auditor;  
• Chapter Champion of their company;   
• Rallies the people to attend IIA meetings and events;  
• Understands the IIA Standards and able to apply appropriately;  
• Utilizes and references IIA standards in their daily work environment;   

Nominations should include a detailed explanation as to why you believe your nominee is the IIA Rock Star of the Month and be submitted to the Awards Committee Chairperson, Eulonda Whitmore at as3842@wayne.edu. The Rock Star awardee will be announced during our monthly Chapter meetings. This is a great way recognize and show appreciation to your coworkers and doesn’t cost you anything except 5 minutes of your time.

Scholarships:

 Coming soon.  2022 Scholarship Award Nominations.

Hello IIA Chapter Members (and future members)!

As the President of the Detroit Chapter for the 2022-2023 Chapter Year, I am excited to lead our talented team in the continuing service to our members. I am an Audit Manager at General Motors and have volunteered with the Detroit Chapter for many years. Despite the significant global challenges over the last several years, the IIA and the Detroit Chapter have remained resilient and delivered value to our members. In the prior year, the Detroit Chapter continued service to its members for the 79th year while maintaining more than 1,000 members from over 100 companies/organizations across Southeast Michigan. The Chapter provided diverse programming through monthly meetings, webinars, and an annual Spring Conference to enhance the professional education and learning for our members. Additionally, the Chapter reached out to Colleges/Universities to promote the internal audit profession, awarded scholarships to two students, presented a Rock Star of the Month recognition to a local auditor, and achieved a “Sapphire” Chapter Achievement status (25 years of gold status chapter health). Great job and thank you to the Chapter Officers and Board members in the prior year! Their volunteer efforts and service to the Chapter are greatly appreciated.

We look forward to another great year including continuing to provide excellent programs and CIA certification support.  Additionally, the Chapter will reach out to local Colleges/Universities to increase awareness of the internal audit profession.  In driving these and other Chapter objectives for the 2022-2023 year, the Chapter will remain agile and adaptable as the business environment continues to change. This includes utilizing technology and embracing innovation to provide value to chapter members. Buckle Up! (ok, I work in the Auto industry), it is going be an exciting year for the Chapter!

If you have topics of interest for our chapter meetings and/or webinars feel free to reach out to me at  Chapter2@iiachapters.org.

Pete Hartung

IIA Detroit Chapter President 2022-2023