Sridahr Ramamoorti
PhD, CIA, ACA, CPA/CFF/CITP, CFE, CFSA, CRP, CGAP, CGFM, CICA, FCPA, MAFF
Infogix
1240 E Diehl Road
Marrieta, GA
P: (630) 505-5436
F: (630) 505-1812
E:
sramamoorti@infogix.com
Sri Ramamoorti, leads Infogix Advisory Services, a division of Infogix, Inc., a software controls company and professional services provider for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), continuous controls monitoring (CCM), and forensics applications. The Infogix suite of professional services spans SOX 404 implementations, formally integrating the 2009 COSO Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems into existing systems, including continuous control monitoring, implementing enterprise risk management (ERM) architectures, conducting fraud risk assessments and monitoring, forensic accounting investigations and e-discovery assignments, and internal control remediation. All of theses professional services enable organizations to adopt best practices in understanding, evaluating, and mitigating "information for decision making risk," and thus implement GRC with Information integrity.®
Previously, Sri was a Corporate Governance partner in Grant Thornton’s National Corporate Governance Group in Chicago, Illinois. He led the firm's thought leadership efforts in the areas of corporate governance and accountability, consulted on Sarbanes Oxley, technical matters in financial reporting and auditing, and anti-fraud programs and controls. He also assisted with global client pursuits across Grant Thornton’s practices. He was a member of the Grant Thornton team that authored the 2009 COSO Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems, and is a co-author of the IIA-published textbook, Internal Auditing: Assurance and Consulting Services (2009, 2nd ed.) as well as The Audit Committee Handbook (forthcoming from John Wiley).
Prior to joining GR, Paul served in leadership positions at Solomon Edwares Group, LLC and Deloitte and Touche, LLP providing fraud and forensic investigative services. Previously, Paul served in a variety of in-house fraud and forensic investigative roles with Tyco International (US), Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, Nortel Networks and Union Carbide Corporation. Paul began his career in law enforcement as a Municipal Police Officer and then continued as a State Trooper and Special Agent with the Attorney General's Office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Earlier, Sri was the Sarbanes-Oxley Advisor for the National Advisory Practices of Ernst & Young in North America. He was one of the Ernst & Young's Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) faculty that conducted U.S. Training on fraud awareness for over 1,000 audit partners and principals. He spearheaded the innovation team that built a simulation model for litigation risk management that attained patent-pending status with the U.S. Patents & Trademarks Office. Sri has also been a Principal with Arthur Andersen's firmwide Professional Standards Group, where he participated in standard-setting efforts, contributed to Andersen's thought leadership publications, and was a key liaison for the multi-million dollar Andersen-MIT research collaboration.
Sri earned a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree from Bombay University, India, the MAcc, and PhD degrees from the Ohio State University, and holds numerous professional certifications. After finishing his PhD, Sri was a member of the University of Illinois' Department of Accountancy Faculty. He has published extensively in journals such as Management Science, European Management Journal, International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, Issues in Accounting Education, Internal Auditor, Journal of Government Financial Management, Financial Executive, etc. He has won several research grants and teaching excellence awards.
Active in the profession, Sri has been the inaugural Chairman of the Academy for Government Accountability (2005-2008), a member of the IIA Research Foundation Board of Trustees (2002-2008) and continues to serve on the Board of Governors of the Chicago IIA Chapter. Over the last decade, Sri has made professional presentations in the USA, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Qatar, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Instructor of:
- Forensic Accounting Academy™