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Webcast of the Week

 Risk Oversight and the New SEC Rule
Sponsored by OpenPages

Help Wanted: Ad of the Week

 Compliance Counsel
Submitted by Midwest ISO

Event of the Week

 International Tax Legislative Update
Sponsored by Vertex

Thought Leadership of the Week

ERM in the Aftermath of the Credit Crisis
Courtesy of Crowe Horwath

The Resource Exchange

Sample Risk Acceptance Request
Submitted by Circuit City

Risk Inventory
Submitted by Cognizant Technology

Featured Databases

Rules, Standards, Guidance
Rules, Guidance From SEC, PCAOB, FASB, More

Internal Controls
Compare Cos.’ Internal Controls Disclosures

GRC Illustrated Series

 The IFRS Ripple Effect
The 23rd Installment in This Exclusive Series

Compensation Survey

 Compliance, Audit & Risk Compensation Survey
Empsight’s 2010 Compensation Survey is now open for participation. It is the leading source of its kind and reports on Fortune 500 and other large multinationals.

Global Integrity Survey

2009 Global Integrity Survey
Download the findings of the 2009 Global Integrity Survey, compiled by Compliance Week and sponsored by Integrity Interactive.
Compliance Week 2009--Fourth Annual Conference for Corporate Financial, Legal, Risk, Audit & Compliance Executives, June 3-5, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

John M. Farrell

Partner, Advisory Services
KPMG

John has more than 20 years of risk management and risk/control experience with Fortune 500 multinational clients.

John is the National Lead Partner for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services. ERM is an integrated advisory service which is primarily focused on helping clients identify, assess, manage and communicate key risks to their business as well as assisting with the development of an ERM framework and process and to embed and sustain an ERM program in their business. These services are deployed across the client’s enterprise and include all risks: strategic, operational, financial and compliance risks. John is the Americas representative on the Firm’s global ERM steering committee and is instrumental in the development of KPMG’s related approach and methodology.

John is also part of KPMG’s Internal Audit, Regulatory & Compliance Services team and is responsible for service delivery on priority accounts in the manufacturing and information/communication sectors.

Prior to joining KPMG, John served as the Director of Internal Audit for Minerals Technologies Inc. (former Division of Pfizer Inc.). His responsibilities included the design of a worldwide internal audit service for this publicly owned manufacturing and mining enterprise. In this role, John delivered a strategic monitoring of the Company’s business risk and control environment and processes. He also launched a Control and Risk Self-Assessment supplemental audit initiative.

John received a Master of Science, Accounting and MBA, Finance, from Long Island University and a BA degree from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York State and he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). He serves on the Board of Governors (and 2000/2001 President) of the Westchester/Fairfield Chapter of the IIA.