Compliance Week Columnists and Guest Columnists

Robert Herz was chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), from July 2002 to September 2010. Previously, he was a senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to joining FASB, Herz was PricewaterhouseCoopers North America theater leader of professional, Technical, Risk & Quality and a member of the firm’s Global and U.S. Boards. He was also president of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation, which supports college and university activities. He also served as a part-time member of the International Accounting Standards Board. Herz is both a U.S. Certified Public Accountant and a U.K. Chartered Accountant and a gold medal winner on the uniform CPA examination.

Harvey L. Pitt is a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by Pres. George Bush in August 2001. Prior to joining the SEC, Pitt was a senior corporate partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He is currently founder and CEO of Kalorama Partners, a global business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Pitt has been a columnist for Compliance Week since October 2003.

The principal author of the COSO internal control and ERM frameworks, Compliance Week Columnist Richard M. Steinberg is a well-known governance and auditing expert. The founder and former leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' corporate governance practice, Steinberg has authored numerous seminal governance reports, including Corporate Governance and the Board—What Works Best

Compliance Week Columnist Colleen Cunningham is the former president and CEO of Financial Executives International. An internationally recognized expert on corporate financial reporting and accounting, Cunningham had significant influence in legislative and regulatory matters including Sarbanes-Oxley, pension reform, and financial accounting standards. The former chief accountant of AT&T, Cunningham was previously the SVP and CFO, North America, of Havas Advertising.

Scott Taub is the former deputy chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he spent more than four years, including a year as acting chief accountant. In his tenure there, he played a key role in the SEC’s implementation of the accounting reforms under the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and was responsible for the day-to-day operations in the Office of the Chief Accountant.

Louis Thompson Jr. is the former CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute. An adviser to the SEC and the NYSE, Thompson is currently serving a second term on the NYSE Individual Investor Advisory Committee. A former member of the Harvard University New Foundations Working Group on corporate governance, Thompson previously served as assistant White House press secretary to President Gerald Ford.

Stephen Davis, a Pulitzer-nominated authority on shareholder rights, was a founder of the Global Shareholder Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center, and also co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network. Jon Lukomnik, a former governor of the ICGN, was previously the deputy comptroller for the City of New Yor

Bruce Carton is a former senior counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Previously vice president of Securities Class Action Services group at Institutional Investor Services (ISS, now RiskMetrics), he is also a former securities litigation partner with one of the world’s largest law firms. The editor of Securities Docket, Carton also hosts a Compliance Week blog called, “Enforcement Action.”

José Tabuena is with Texas Health Resources and writes a column every other month about internal auditing challenges. He offers a unique perspective on internal auditing issues bringing Big Four firm experience and having held a variety of audit-related roles, including compliance auditor, risk manager, corporate counsel, and chief compliance officer. Tabuena has conducted sensitive internal investigations and assessed the performance of internal audit and ethics and compliance programs in highly regulated industries.

James Bone has more than 29 years of experience in the auditing and risk-management fields. In the course of his career, he has worked for Frito-Lay, Abbott Labs, Stuart-James Investment Bankers, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith, and Fidelity Investments. Bone is now an independent consultant and head of Global Compliance Associates LLC, and is a regular contributor to Compliance Week.

Compliance Week Columnist Dan Swanson is an internal audit veteran, who previously was director of professional practices at the Institute of Internal Auditors. The author of dozens of articles on internal auditing, Swanson has completed audit projects for more than 30 different organizations and has completed nearly 100 internal audits. An expert on financial, operational, and IT audits, his columns on auditing ethics, compliance, and ERM programs have been extremely popular.

Patricia Harned is president of the Ethics Resource Center. The author of several texts on corporate ethics and character development, Harned has commented on the ethical dimensions of regulatory efforts by both the SEC and the U.S. Federal Sentencing Commission, and has testified before Congress on related federal legislation. She was the primary author of a seminal National Business Ethics Survey published in 2005.